Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. What audience interaction tools do you use to engage participants at a training – in the room and remotely? Conference.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I spent some time going through the tools on Robin’s list to find the ones that were easy to use and gave me good stuff quickly. News discovery tools are important for those who are creating content as well – especially if you’re covering breaking news or using the technique “ newsjacking.” Which ones?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

X Number of Tips, Resources, Tools, Things, Shortcuts Lists : Anytime you can create content that has a headline like X number , it screams easy to skim and useful. Take for example, John Haydon’s ” 8 Ways To Get More Reach With Your Facebook Page.” Short List of List Making Tools for Content Curation.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is a Twitter analytics tool. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. I’ve been looking for a tool like this and grateful that Avi Kaplan told me about Snapbird. Storify is a content curation tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

There is no better tool for doing this than the LightBox Collaborative 5th Annual Editorial Calendar. And it’s all stored in a handy interactive, multiuser tool so you can edit, share and execute across your team. We covered strategy, especially identifying audiences through personas and key objectives. Use only what works for you.

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JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

My colleague, Alexandra Samuel, wrote a provocative post on the HBR blog titled, “ Dear Colleague, Put Down Your Notebook ” where she makes an argument for switching to digital note taking tools like Evernote is more efficient than taking notes on paper. What are your favorite note taking tools? How do you take notes?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

It got me thinking again about low-cost data visualization tools. What can the tools do? I didn't have to look any further than the Idealware site and a recent report, " A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools " to get the answers. Tags: maps nptech nptech tools visual thinking. What's out that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

63% are worried about the security risks posed by AI 58% are worried about this really steep learning curve that their entire team has to go through to understand how to use generative AI The last point highlights a perceived challenge that, in practice, becomes less daunting once users engage with tools like Copilot.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post. Is there a tool that can automate this someone asked on my blog’s Facebook page ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Today, the NTEN WeAreMedia project is working on the podcasting tool box. I'm hoping folks in the know about podcasting in the nonprofit technology space will jump in add their favorite tools and tips. Let us know the best tools and tips and you could win a t-shirt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2010

View California Coast Trip in a larger map This holiday rather than working, we decided to take a brief vacation and travel down the beautiful California coast. Only problem was by Christmas night we realized that we hadn't even opened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. There are tools now to make it easy for supporters to change their avatars, although you don't get the range of self-expression. What do you think?

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MAY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. I noticed this a few months ago, when a few of us analytics geeks fooled around with creating a Twitter Monitoring and Analytic Tools Taxonomy.

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JUNE 13, 2009

Here's a list of the monitoring tools in her toolbox: Google Alerts - I hope you know what they are and are already using them! Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool. I'm looking for other folks willing to share a screen capture of their dashboard, the keywords they use, and a list of tools.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

It represents the convergence of two ideas: mobile phones have great cameras and you can quickly create great visual content as part of your content strategy by using it, along with a few tips and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2008

All this week for NTEN's WeAreMedia project, we've been focusing on the tools that let nonprofits share their story social media style!      So, if you're like me and little bit behind this week, you can play catch up today and tommorrow by suggesting tips and tools for photosharing and videosharing. 

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MARCH 21, 2009

To see Mailana live map Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a piece called " The Inner Circles of 10 Geek Heros " using a tool developer Pete Warden's service Mailana. The tool is quite fascinating because it combines a light weight social network analysis (see this page. What's your takeaway from this tool? jasonfalls. silkcharm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors! Today we're looking at Micro Media tools. This is any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

We're going to kick out this week's NTEN We Are Media Toolbox fun with blogging tools. One of the best resources on blogging for nonprofits comes from Idealware, the blogging tools report. It presents a side-by-side comparison of features for 7 lower-end blogging tools commonly used by nonprofits. Photo by Dave Melbourne.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

Those who are just beginning to incorporate social media into their strategic thinking struggle with: "How do we get to know and understand how a particular tool can help us meet our goals, but not let the tool drive our decisions?" Fire, for instance, was a society-changing tool. The alternative? A forest fire.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Join my session “ Unlocking Productivity with Generative AI Writing Tools for Nonprofit Marketers ” on March 7 at 10:30 am PT. Your ticket includes: 1: Access to my session and 70+ others taught by the top thought leaders, all working together to give you the education, resources, and tools needed to make an unthinkable impact a reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It's another for the listening tool box ! What tools are you using? It's facinating to see who is talking about you in the LinkedIn questions. What do you think are the most skills for effective social media listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Jordan Viator, of Connection Café Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. Amid his top picks, David harped on a few tools and sites in particular David's top picks include: Social Networks. File Sharing. User Experience.

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AUGUST 14, 2008

Last week, I did my annual Blog ROI benchmarking and I started to noodle around with the question - How can I use AideRSS as a tool to help me evaluate engagement and improve my blog? Aide RSS wrote about measuring social engagement on a blog which that looks at a number of different metrics. You can do an analysis of your blog feed here.

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MAY 3, 2017

Note from Beth: Melinda T. Tuan, Managing Director, Fund for Shared Insight shares details about an incredible funding opportunity for nonprofits. Does your organization want to make meeting the needs of the people its serves a top priority?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. after John Smith pinged me and Nancy about an experiment with this tool. Does collaboration on the mindmapping tool work best in real time or asynchronous - or does it not matter? I had to play with it.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

The technology is moving fast, but we are slowing down to have a conversation to get you started using the generative AI tools for productivity and creativity. Join me for a LinkedIn Live for a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies to learn how your nonprofit can get AI ready in 2024.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

Two years ago, I got little obsessed with screencasting hoping that more nonprofits would use the tools for training materials or maybe even fundraising. There's no better tool for that than snagit. Indicate which tool you'd prefer to use. Winners will picked next week.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. Long term vision: They think there are many more activists out there and the best way to connect and collaborate, but give them their own tools.

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JUNE 5, 2009

The first session I co-lead with Katrin Verclas which was a look at social media and mobile tools. It was a great opportunity for me to learn a little bit more about mobile tools. We live tweeted using the hashtag #cliclear I also had my n95 and we live streamed some of the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

My colleagues in the UK David Wilcox and Dave Briggs have started an open process to develop some tool kits for organizations and social media. The toolkit has 3 components: The toolkit itself, a prepared pack of information. A facilitated workshop. A dedicated network space for post event support and discussion. The etoolkit wiki is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?) Office Life : How To Befriend The Boss On Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points!

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

What tool do you use? It makes it easy to post to Twitter or bookmark finds from over the 1000 blogs that monitor. I figure why hoard the good stuff I find? What's your routine for sharing information on Twitter?

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