Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

Format Templates , Content Asset Organizing Tools, and scheduling software that covers this whole process. Format Templates and Cheat Sheets. One of the things that Nancy Lublin mentioned during her keynote at Data on Purpose Conference a few months ago is that DoSomething templates all their campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

Step 5: Save as a Template. Make this process easier in the future by saving the chart as a template. Then the next time you need to make a three-line graph, click on your customized template and BAM – instant great graph. This way, interpretation of which line stands for what is very obvious. Name it something you’ll remember.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

He included templates, examples, and steps. And while the advice was fantastic, you need a little time and a good eye. Create a PSD template file so I can edit in photoshop and change it. Here’s what my first attempt looked like (don’t laugh). Admittedly, I’m not much of a graphic designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

And while it is great to have templates and authoring platforms out there that help nonprofits deploy bots, it is also important to remember that a bot interfacing with your stakeholders should also embrace your organization’s brand personality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

The tool is easy to use, includes templates, and lots of useful how-to information. Canva is a design tool that lets you create beautiful images without having to be a designer. It makes creating visual content for social media channels a breeze. There is a nonprofit version that every nonprofit around the world should use!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of the most important exercises I do is a “Fishbowl” where participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2013

You set up regular planning time to come up with ideas for content for the week or month. To help you plan, you: Review the news prompts in your editorial calendar template. Review upcoming content for programs, campaigns, and other organizational activities. Ask: What existing content can be re-purposed for social channels?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2011

We see it when people share documents/templates. Scott Bechtler-Levin is Co-Founder and President of IdeaEncore Network ( www.IdeaEncore.com ), an online resource sharing platform that builds networks to disseminate and curate nonprofit tools / templates. We saw evidence of it in the networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The Giving Day Playbook has this useful staffing template. This Sample Budget Template provides a more detailed expense breakdown and can be used to start your Giving Day budget. What are the different options for matching funds and prizes that are awarded to nonprofits during the Giving Day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Click here for a free template. Registration pages and forms that are accessible through the event page. A donation thermometer to help keep track of how much has been raised so far. If you want some more guidance on different types of nonprofit software, check out DonorSearch’s list of best online giving tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

These additions, created by our partners at Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies , complement the existing playbook content, which includes recommendations, checklists and templates for everything from early planning to post-campaign analysis. We’ve added a case study on GiveMN’s response , in addition to a Crisis Planning section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, GivingTuesday has a daily kindness text and email action alerts and you can download this kindness template and use it to check with neighbors. There are lots of useful resources created by nonprofits to help facilitate kindness and mutual aid. One thing our family did was adopt a senior dog from Muttville, a local animal rescue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The book shares some fantastic case studies as well as templates, discussion questions, and a measurement culture assessment tool. The book is a manual for nonprofits on how to become a data-informed organization and do more good in the world. Impact and Excellence by Sheri Chaney Jones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

I use my own self-care plan template to write down what I will do. Update & Review My Work-Life Balance Plan: In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

They’ve just published this terrific, free e-book with lots of tips and planning templates to help your organization decide whether to participate. The e-book is written by Jamie McDonald , the Chief Giving Officer of Network for Good and the Founder of GiveCorps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

One of the techniques that they used that I loved was to provide a graphic template for your personal learning journey to internalize these skills. I definitely walked away achieving all the outcomes for the meeting, most importantly being inspired to put this knowledge into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

I use my own self-care plan template to write down what I will do. Update & Review My Work-Life Balance Plan: In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I use my own self-care plan template to write down what I will do. I look at my themes for the year and habits to improve. 3) Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops on resilience, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Here’s a template to get you started. Finish with an ‘ask’ to follow. It may take you some time to boil it down to just a few words and you may not be able to get all those concepts in the bio line. YOUR ORG NAME] helps [TWITTER FOLLOWERS] to [BENEFIT/VALUE YOU. DELIVER ON TWITTER FEED].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Here’s a template. With a little discipline and 15-30 minutes of quiet time, you can do an analysis of your mentions – if the volume isn’t too huge. It involves a content analysis and a little counting. What tools are you using? What have you discovered?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Jane Bozarth’s “ From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers ” includes some excellent templates and examples for training evaluation surveys. I tend to keep my evaluation surveys short to avoid survey fatigue. This book is a must-have for any serious trainer. Documentation. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I browsed David's site and discovered his excellent communications planning templates and riffed over his social messenger framework. I just happen to notice a Twitter follower, David Lipscomb, who retweeted this great find from the McKinssey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Since our outreach efforts focused on providing nonprofits with social media resources, email templates and content such as a video PSA for use on their homepages, it would seem those efforts paid off when it came to driving traffic. Traffic sources to the Give to the Max Day webpage on November 16.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Here's the how to and you can find the templates here. On December 17th, the Youtube community will participate in a video making party that celebrates charities. YouTube users are invited to make a video about their favorite charity and why they support it. Here's more about this community effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2010

Make sure that you have social media icons connecting to your various profiles in your website template. Add the icons to your email newsletter templates and social media links to your email signatures. Add “share” buttons to your website pages and email newsletters too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Having a staff retreat on an annual basis to map out large projects is also a good idea and anticipating monthly or quarterly key deadlines can minimize stress. There is even a “ look ahead ” template for Excel that make this type of planning easier to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Go get your free template right now so you are ahead of the curve for 2015. Most importantly, participants began to think through their content and engagement strategies. There is no better tool for doing this than the LightBox Collaborative 5th Annual Editorial Calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

This post generating a lot of thoughtful discussion about nonprofits approach the editorial planning process as well as sharing of different editorial calendar templates. But it is important to understand that there is a process behind the template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

While it is intended for storytelling with powerpoint, I think the frameworks and templates she offers for narrative arcs are very valuable. It is so helpful to have these templates as you capture the story. What I have found extremely useful is Nancy Duarte’s new book, resonate: present visual stories that transform audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The Knight Foundation launched the “ Giving Day Playbook ,” a step-by-step online guide of best practices, templates, checklists, and other resources for community foundations to successfully host a Giving Day in their community. It answers many questions hosts may have about planning, implementing, and evaluating the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2016

Then we play that out across every part of the campaign—from the stories we tell to the design of the email template and copy in the direct mail piece. But as an agency that does branding (or what we call “brandraising”), we also ask whether that hook fits into the larger narrative that is the organization’s brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Holly Minch shared this excellent template. It is way less stress to know what you’re going to publish for the week versus having do it on the fly. It also helps with celebrating organizational milestones via social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2014

Be Responsive: Many website templates provided by development platforms like WordPress.org are “responsive,” meaning they detect what kind of device is being used to access the site, and then serve up content in an appropriate display. The higher the figure, the bigger the priority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2013

It is much easier to start with a template and modify its design than start with a blank spreadsheet. But, I’ve been struggling with the best low-cost easy way to discover, curate, and share those spreadsheets more broadly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2012

Ash Shepherd wrote a guest post earlier this week that offered fabulous templates and steps for developing the graphic images for your Facebook Page. The new Facebook template invites brands like yours to place a large “cover photo” at the top of the page, up to a size of 851 x 315 pixels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2009

After you select your desired chart format, use the Chart Chooser to generate a PowerPoint or Excel template. Digital Inspiration found this terrific visual field guide to selecting the right chart or graph or graph format. Need to visualize a process, system, or concept that isn't based on data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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