Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

The first reaction I typically hear from nonprofit leaders when it comes to social media is “When am I going to find the time?” ” I immediately think about Dali’s famous painting “ The Persistence of Memory ,” where time is the theme, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the ants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

In the nonprofit sector, time is our most valuable resource. Distractions are time wasters and you need to manage them no the other way around. Some interruptions come from our physical environment. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? Photo by hmcotterill.

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MAY 22, 2018

A Culture of Wellbeing as a New Nonprofit Strength: Building Capacity During a Time of Disruption – guest post by Heather McLeod Grant, Adene Sacks, & Kate Wilkinson. Funded by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, our research was recently published in “ The New Normal: Capacity Building During a Time of Disruption.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Should your nonprofit do more than simply set up a presence on Google + and not invest any more time? What is a productive way to experiment and learn to the answers to these questions without wasting time? How much time are you investing? And, not take you a lot of extra time). How are you measuring that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

“ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. Eastern time, the technology provider noticed that donation forms were loading slowly or not at all, and soon many communities were unable to process donations. Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5 But not this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2011

I think nonprofits should wait or rather don’t jump in deeply with a heavy time investment quite yet. Take an ROI approach to the amount of time that is being spent, especially if you haven’t really built up , engaged , and developed relationships with people via your social networks in other places.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yesterday, the Real Time Web Summit hosted by Read/Write Web took place in Mountain View, CA. What's the Real Time Web? Here's a good basic definition from the introductory post on the Read Write Web Blog: Real-time information delivery is fast emerging as one of the most important elements of our online experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground. The tool was Ushahidi. Usahidi means “bearing witness” in Swahili.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2016

We are heading into the most stressful time of year for nonprofits, especially for fundraisers. With Giving Tuesday just around the corner, the kick off the that busy time of year for most nonprofit development directors and their teams is just ramping up. So, take a deep breath! Flickr Photo by Brittany Bush.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Some of our most popular perks include: Accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year. But as Amber points out, no one was actually using it since no one on the senior management was taking creative time. Our values reflect this commitment. 5 floating holidays and 7 fixed holidays per year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

The only time we reach out to them is when we ask them for money.&# His advice was to schedule “heart time.&# – That is meet with your donors and engage with them — share a story that isn’t linked to an ask. Mobile Technology and Social Media and Real Time Learning. Put them on the donor list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At that time, Twitter was a place for very early adopters and I used it help get technology T-shirts to bring over the participants. It's been almost two years since I had the opportunity to participate in the first Cambodia Blogging Summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 Download it here. In A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2010

Source: Facebook Blog Post. Earlier this week, Facebook added “where&# to the list of personal information members share with the world. There was much speculation what this feature might mean for FourSquare and the subsequent riddles, “What happens when you add Foursquare to Facebook? Answer: Facebook).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Slide 44: Some good time management tips for using the social web purposefully. Finding Time: Start small and find what works for you. Using Time Wisely: DON’T READ EVERYTHING. Using Time Wisely: DON’T READ EVERYTHING. Take time everyday, don’t let it build up. Take time to alter notification settings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Despite the tough economic times, it seems the community is really excited about the 2009 NTC. For the past eight years, I've attended NTC , NTEN's premiere conference for nonprofit techies.* During the holidays, I was talking to Holly Ross on Twitter wondering if the bad economy would be a damper on conference attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Chad Norman, publisher of I dig webby things.and I bet you do too I dig speaking at nonprofit conferences and events, and one of my favorite topics to cover is the real-time use of social media. It's all of those things, but it's also something else: a real-time fundraising tool! Clearly it works.but why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2008

Nina Simon has an excellent post looking at time investment and types of projects. From Museum2.0 Blog, Nina Simon. There are three approaches: Participant: 1-5 Hours per week (See 10 Web2.0 things you can do in ten minutes to be a better nonprofit - suggested by nptechers). Content Creator: 5-10 Hours per week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Time Originally uploaded by Choconancy1. Marc has this to say in another post about incorporating social networking tools: Find the time to explore an ever expanding menu of communications channels By simply believing that these channels have future (or present) value, we simply make some time to get to know these systems and how they work.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Some of you in the nonprofit technology field may remember this wonderful cartoon " Time Management for Techies " created by Miriam Engelberg who we lost breast cancer about two years ago. Flickr Photo by Mangee.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

My good colleague Amy Gahran has written a terrific post called " How To Blog Without A Time Sink." " It written for journalists, but the advice is very relevant to nonprofit staffers. Amy suggests that it is mostly a matter of a mind shift, from producing a final polished to sharing a work in progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2008

During the workshop I did in Minnesota using the Social Media Game , the question - "We're busy implementing programs, how do we carve out the time to incorporate a blog?" The issue of time - how to carve out the time so you can reflect and than integrate new technology into practice - came up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2008

This was my 8th NTC and I had a fantastic time and learned a lot! Finally back from New Orleans and the NTC and Penguin Day. I will be posting all my write ups, photos, videos, utterz, and reflections over the next week. So, stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I remember reading an article ten years ago by Jamie McKenzie about creating " Just in Time Support " cultures to ensure adoption of technology by educators. A smile came across my face when I read this post celebrating the power of the network from Twitter - a just in time support culture. Congrats Jennifer!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

I was so busy online working my social media and social networks that I failed to notice the article from the New York Times about the America's Giving Challenge titled "Charities Vie for Prizes in Online Giving Experiment."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

While one site may count a view every time the play button is clicked, another might only count finishes. Therefore, an advertiser looking to use viewership data to allocate ad inventory or place viral videos has no comparative ability at this point in time. time on site.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

First step was showing them the existing conversation, which both educates about benefits and dispels fears at same time. Can you imagine at time in the future when your board will govern the organization using social media? Look for the unique value your org provides and share that value, help others. it's pretty field-generated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors. It's from Trends in Living Networks blogger Ross Dawson. You may remember the very popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 which used transportation themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I've been trying to organize and clean up I don't know how many gigs of information, some dating back to 1992, the year I started working online full-time. Here's a few I played with from 1992-2002 during my time working with NYFA/Arts Wire. yes, the tools are easy, but skills probably take some time to develop and hone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

As someone with limited time and attention, I don't want to think about how much money to donate. Suddenly, my needs changed and I needed my profession to be validated. 4) PayPal was an enabler. I had some money in my account. 5) The specific dollar amount was an enabler of convenience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

over at the NetSquared ThinkTank and discovered an excellent blog called " Tools, Thoughts, and Things One Can Do With Little Time and Hardly Any Resources." I was reading the reactions to the Overbrook Foundation Report on Nonprofit Adoption of Web2.0 Which reminds me I have to add the Khmer 2.0 version and card deck ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2006

It's harvest time and we're enjoying a huge crop of heritage tomatoes from the garden, more than enough to share with the groundhogs. Pictured above are the fruits of my conference networking over the past few months. It's a huge pile of business cards.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2006

Beyond The Blog: Ready For Prime Time Originally uploaded by Looking For Fish Tacos At ELI 2006. This also comes to me just in time because I was planning to use flicktation genre for Harry's class thanks to Nick Noaks. Hat tip Nancy White.) I really like the use of flickr for presentations instead of powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Give Staff Time for Hands-On Discovery Leaders should provide time for staff for hands-on exploration. Apply in Low Risk Ways to Work Flows Now it is time to learn prompting skills applied to different job tasks. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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MARCH 12, 2007

That's a screencast (with time speed increased) of what is I think -- is a twitter group coming from SXSW Festival , a major new media/emerging technology event happening in Austin, TX. Click To Play.

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