Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Given the proliferation of low-cost tools, your nonprofit can spark conversation, share your message and advance your cause all on your own terms. Tailor the Tool. From email blasts to Facebook pages, in many cases it’s now nonprofits that find themselves with channels in need of content.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Join us in Denver for inspiring keynotes, thought-provoking breakout sessions, and how-to workshops for change-makers across the education, nonprofit, and social good community. How do diverse voices and experiences strengthen a community? bbcon is live and in person October 21-24! Register here today!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

An organization, company, or other entity can have all of the diversity numbers in the world, but until everyone feels included and that there is a place and voice for them, it is all for naught. Leverage tools that make it possible to understand the current state of the diversity makeup of your donor base. DEI Benchmarking.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

You can use Atomic Training to help your organization maximize its tech tools and software products. Quicken Deluxe takes the easy-to-use accounting tools of Quicken Starter Edition and adds additional features to plan financial strategy, build long-term savings plans, and visualize monthly and annual incomes and expenses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Gerardo Capiel, Benetech's VP, Engineering One of the highlights of my meeting circuit each year is the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City. There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! Members of the organization asked us to provide a workshop for their seniors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. Didn't have enough time to focus on applying the tools. What worked?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

For the past few years, I’ve been teaching a workshop called “ Leading on Social Channels ” for nonprofits that want to leverage the personal brands of their leaders. Adding social media leadership skills to the mix, they can become the more trusted voices who others turn to regarding their sector’s social change issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. It is important to shift between the tools and that strategic overview.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org’s product team is constantly analyzing data, improving websites, and providing the right system and tools to their users. org for a three-day online event featuring interactive workshops, cultural sessions, and hands-on training, bringing together climate movement champions. With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Honestly I think every postcard is a success story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. It almost always naturally leads to discussion about how to amplify each other’s voices using social media.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2014

This event also provided a workshop for parents about Be a Leader’s resources to help their children go on to college. As we learned from each other, we were given new tools to bring to our placements. We''ve seen that we have strong voices and something to bring to the table and we can’t be quieted anymore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. There's a new free listening tool in the tool box section !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

I attend a lot of conferences , but mostly as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, or panelist. Shireen did a fabulous job of bringing in their voices. She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti. That was the gift of attending Nonprofit 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

The visual is from a reflection by David Wilcox after a workshop he gave in March. He summarizes the internal control issues elegantly: New media tools can give housing associations better ways to provide information, and support communication and collaboration within and outside the organisation. Don't present it as tools only.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2009

I just stepped out of a workshop where I taught a room full of Habitat for Humanity folks about using social media tools. If your mission has an emotional edge to it (saving the environment for example), it gives supporters a place to voice their concerns and opinions. One of the things I talked about was blogging.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

This included a bevy of research papers and workshops, as well as innovative tagging projects intended to do everything from provide contextual information about artwork to identifying actions taken by families of birds. design personalization Technology Tools Worth Checking Out usercontent web2.0'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

A few weeks ago I was doing a workshop and demoing some of the tools of social media. link] - One Voice Domestic Violence Community Awareness Walk. Flickr photo by Beth. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. When I got to showing Twitter, I was met with the usual skepticism. link] (fullcirc.com).

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2009

I just stepped out of a workshop where I taught a room full of Habitat for Humanity folks about using social media tools. If your mission has an emotional edge to it (saving the environment for example), it gives supporters a place to voice their concerns and opinions. One of the things I talked about was blogging.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2009

I just stepped out of a workshop where I taught a room full of Habitat for Humanity folks about using social media tools. If your mission has an emotional edge to it (saving the environment for example), it gives supporters a place to voice their concerns and opinions. One of the things I talked about was blogging.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How to pick the best tools for your particular collaboration challenges. Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations - Include More Voices, Make Better Choices , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bring people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Since I'm going to be teaching the Listening Module for the WeAreMedia workshop in February, I'm going to write up some step-by-steps on how to do this with different monitoring tools. Who are the influential voices in the social media space covering your issue area or topical domain? Internal Process.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

Join us on a transformative journey as we explore the captivating history of Pride Month, uncover creative ways to extend our support far beyond June, and discover invaluable fundraising tools that will elevate our events to the next level. Fundraising is a powerful tool that can amplify our impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

One of the things TechSoup does well is to bring relevant tools and resources to the needs that people have on the ground. Mideastyouth.com is creating platforms and web applications that amplify diverse voices advocating for change throughout the Middle East and North Africa using digital media.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Rose Aguilar from Bay Area Business Woman interviewed me recently for an article entitled, "Women's Voices Boom in the Blogosphere." about the Basic Blogging for Women Workshop October 22, 2006 here. about the Basic Blogging for Women Workshop October 22, 2006 here. Use your blog as a marketing or advocacy tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. tags: arts ). Why It is Important ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  What is the voice of the blog?

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, I was asked to conduct a social media marketing workshop at Planet Philanthropy (an annual conference for fundraising professionals by. Needless to say, the idea stuck and the workshop “. Is the copy using a consistent tone of voice? . Mistake #6: Not Taking Advantage Of Donation Tools . AFP Florida. ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter. I did a presentation for a group of Bay Area population research funders along with Scott Swenson, editor of HR Reality Check.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. SpeedGranting is a tool for the Facebook community to help spread the good by getting funding for worthy projects.

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