Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Analytics really do tell stories! What’s elevator speech for the organization, he campaign and your role.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page? I was lucky enough to talk my host into driving me to Talkeetna so I could document this fabulous story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The Story of the Sports Initiative Network, Guest post from Annie Hernandez. The design was to share this learning was amazing. Roberto Cremonini.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I have only seen one example of this so far and told the story, but am now curious. David Weinberger also lived blogged the presentation and q/a. He asked if we had seen any organizations change their mission as a result of connectedness on social networks. Earlier this week, I flew across the country (thanks Virgin America!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization. We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Local Stories, global audience.??? n and both with the same objectives. They are now all working together and have formed an organization called HiperBarrio with the tagline Historias Locales, audiencia global, or ???Local They have already registered a domain and the website is under currently construction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2007

Ways To Tell A Story. Just three steps: Outline a Story Idea Find Some Media Pick a Tool to Build Your Story. But even better, he told the same story using the 50 different tools. Now, wait, where's the workshop - 50 ways to remix a story? And, wow, that list of tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

(No travel) But, if I'd be seriously tempted to take the train to NYC just hear this session: The Story of Daily Life: Connecting people through video collaboration "Using. help groups around the world to record, distribute, and archive stories from. inexpensive digital cameras and the power of web distribution, we can now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2007

That's a photo of me with Andy Goodman at the break during the Keynote workshop on Story Telling as Best Practice. If you work for a nonprofit and you're not using story telling to share the impact of your programs, go buy Andy's book "Story Telling As A Best Practice."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

You need stories. Do you have an example of a good ROI story telling? I'm working on workshop curriculum and a presentation about ROI and Nonprofit Technology for Legal Services Conference. I'm focusing on Part 4: Effective Ways to Make Your Case. Numbers alone won't do it. Value for all Departments??? What are your techniques?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Here's the link to the NY Times story. Here's Allan's commentary. More at NTEN. Update: TechSoup posted an update to its blog about the security breach, mentioning exactly when they were notified and how they disclosed this information to TechSoup subscribers, including me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

technology tool, but the oldest communication method known to human beings - stories! Oftentimes it is our constituents or those we are trying to help who emerge as the most compelling heroes in our stories. The Villains: Every story needs a bad guy. Who, or what, is the catalyst in your story? workshops for July.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

If your organization has the skills to craft authentic, real, emotional stories about the work that you do every day and make those stories social, you will be able to grow support and keep donors engaged. Part Three provides tips on the digital tools you need to use to share your stories with supporters.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

So, of course, I want to encourage you to share your giving story and compete for cash grants for your favorite nonprofit organization. Nonprofits can encourage their supporters to participate or if you are a donor, than you can submit your story. Post Your Story. Visit the contest page and click on Submit Your Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

This year, The March of Dimes continues to be a creative and innovative nonprofit user of social media with its Every Baby has a Story Tour project. The trip has been chronicled on a blog and there is an interactive map that shows the locations of each story collected the whole route (Over 820 stories collected as of this writing).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally. What are some of your organization's social media adaption stories? Now say that five times fast! More on that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" Tell stories, stop sending crappy press releases. Finding Inspiration in Their Work and Stories. DIA blogs about an amazing organizing victory story! Ali Levine has an amazing post about how to tell your story with maps on the NTEN blog and some pointers to story resources here. Meanwhile, Joomla!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

While browsing through this excellent slide show about Nonprofit Web Strategy, I noticed a slide that Andy Goodman used in his presentation during the meeting I just attended!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

strengthen relationships, tell stories, empathize with others.). AI and other smart tech can make work culture more human, but only if you know how the tech works and focus on using it to do what it does best (answer rote questions online) and allow people to do what we do best (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. ROI Story Telling. Creating effective stories is not hard, provided you clearly understand who these decision influencers are, know well what they most care about and understand where to place stories for the most impact. View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Working in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook, the contest invites “everyday givers” to reflect upon why they give to a certain nonprofit organization and then share these personal stories on social media. Telling Stories with a Purpose – Rockefeller Foundation. Center for StoryBased Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

For the WeAreMedia tactical module on Listening we need a few nuggets, anecdotes, or stories in a few sentences about how your nonprofit has used a listening tool (technorati, google alerts, or RSS readers, or summize/tweetscan to listen). So, if you have a listening story you'd like to share - drop in the comments or over at the wiki here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2007

Sina and her two sisters. Sina , age 16, is an orphan and head of her family, and takes care of two younger sisters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Stories with purpose don’t just materialize—they’re strategically planned, they’re creatively crafted, and designed to achieve measurable outcomes. Hatch is a concierge that connects you to a suite of tools and a growing community of storytellers to help you leverage your stories to drive social impact. What Makes a Story Great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

4) Story Mapping Personal Stories: Nonprofits have the potential to use AI to analyze personal stories of key stakeholders to better design pathways to using those programs. These insights are used to better customize messaging in different digital channels to improve results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

A Twitter moment is a collection of Tweets from different users that tells a story. I use moments to create stories based on Tweets from conferences or workshops that I’ve presented. Have a story, example, or tip to share? Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum. Let me know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

2: Use Transmedia Storytelling to Share Stories That Inspires InspireAction. I’ve told a cat social media best practices story, so have to give equal air time to dogs. The amazing story telling went viral – bringing a lot of attention and donations to the nonprofit, but also helped Hank find a forever home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Stories are social. The importance of digital reputation management – stories last forever and can spread quickly. Everyone loves a good story. Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies. Content is king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Create a sexy story. You know that compelling stories get you donations, sharing, and publicity, but you’re probably thinking — “I don’t have a sexy story” or “I don’t know how to tell a compelling story”. You have all the ingredients for a sexy story, but how do you get the recipe? They raised $28,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

It is playbook details the practices for high performance including: testing ideas, measuring impact, funding experimentation, leading collaboratively, and sharing compelling stories. How do you tell your story with data? How to create compelling stories that power growth? How to create compelling stories that power growth?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

We’re far more connected to stories and information than we have ever been, yet the noise and ubiquity of the digital world makes it harder to surface and share personal stories of change and impact. There often isn’t a strategic approach to story collection. Are organizations using the rights tools to collect and store stories?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2007

My Flickr Stream. A few months ago, Rebecca Krause-Hardie and I co-wrote an article for ArtsReach Magazine about how arts organizations are mixing in social media strategies. You can find a copy of the article here. If you are interested in learning about how arts organizations are using the social web, read Becky's blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

As a non-profit founded by one of the world’s greatest storytellers, Dr. Jane Goodall, telling our story is essential and the best way to present ourselves as the holistic conservation organization we are, on social media and other platforms. The non-profit’s followers tagged friends in the comments section to share Wounda’s story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In a sharing economy, your story and the way it’s told is not completely under your control. Instead, your supporters are empowered to tell your story in their own, personal way. Ideally, you’ll want to give your donors space and the opportunity to share their story, such as through a peer-to-peer fundraiser or on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Define a brand purpose with a differentiated point of view: Critical to the success of any brand, nonprofit or otherwise, is a clearly defined purpose that is communicated through a brand story that drives engagement among stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Social Media Building Blocks View more presentations or upload your own. tags: nonprofit nptech ). Earlier this week the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global launched with Amy Sample Ward , who is the community builder at Netsquared , as the first speaker.

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