Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

I got this great question from someone and I know that many of you may have struggled with this issue and have some wisdom to offer: Hi Beth, My question is: does the voice/tone of a blog need to match up with the voice/tone of the nonprofit? Perhaps that is why I am protective of my blogging voice. Any thoughts or resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

blog has set up an experiment using VoiceThreads, a multimedia presentation software that allows people to add their voices to the presentation. My friend Nina who writes the Museum2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2008

Northern Voices is one conference that is on my bucket list. Like my colleague Nick Noakes , I've followed it from afar reading posts from Nancy White and Alan Levine via the their blogs and social media. I remember in 2006 - Nancy's wonderful session on the 7 Online Compentencies (I didn't attend).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Here's the call to action from the email messaging: Can we ask you to add your voice? Most importantly, you can influence others to stand up and be a voice for Darfur. Darfur Voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But this year in my current role leading the Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy I did more listening than screening. During the first 10 years at Active Voice we commissioned outside firms and social scientists to give us qualitative feedback about our process and our partners’ satisfaction. Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He's an editor at Global Voices and his personal blog, Better Days , where I first learned about RSS readers and how to use bloglines. I've raised some money from my cause from people who are my friends online, but I've never met offline. Why is that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

Does” is any action – post, like, share, mobile photo,create – expressed via a social voice. Enabling expression of the social voice will raise more$$$ than a direct donation. His points were: Each person does a little, the community does a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Her authentic passion for her charity’s cause, and unique tone of voice, is inspiring and her Twitter feed feels like a natural medium for the way she communicates as a leader. The overall winner was Ruth Ibegbuna, chief executive of the Reclaim Project , a Manchester-based youth leadership charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

Amplify Your Voice: If you are sharing articles suggested your staff or colleagues “read this,” switch the channel to something like Twitter. But getting into the habit of regular tweeting, Facebooking, or experimenting with new tools like Instagram is another story. Stay Focused: Use online visualize tools to mindmap ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Sadly, this is her last day for this job and she’s moving on. So, this post is an appreciation of her work, one of many voices in the community saying #ThanksAmy. My friend and colleague Amy Sample Ward has done an amazing job of community stewardship for the Netsquared community over the years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Leading on social media requires nonprofit CEOs and their staff, even Trustees, to master basic digital communications skills that allow them to engage directly with stakeholders as themselves, in their own voices. No longer can they hide behind the organization’s faceless logo. It requires a real face to humanize the brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2014

Use of social media to discuss the world’s most pressing problems has move from under the table, onto the wall, and now with yesterday’s online event engaged many new voices. Civil Society 2.0 Engagement Networked Nonprofit'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The research suggests that if your organization uses social media as one of its listening posts, it’s crucial to understand what you’re hearing and whose voice is missing. And while lurkers make up more than half of a company’s social media audience, they only account for 5% of the content captured by social media analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

This way, we can spotlight voices on our blog and give policy partners multiple outlets for their articles; get many conversations going on individual posts on our site; and encourage folks to stay on our blog to learn more. To increase positive messaging about health reform from diverse voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2009

As a board member of Ushahidi and an advisor to Global Voices - very pleased to see them on the list of recipients which also included those listed below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

L4G is especially dedicated to hearing from those whose voices are often least heard, such as families visiting food pantries, youth attending afterschool academic and enrichment programs, residents living in public housing, recent immigrants using legal-aid services, and individuals participating in job-training programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

Our choices and our voices matter. as well as being able to show who you are by voicing your own opinion. How should a nonprofit weigh the source of funds against the importance of its own mission? Which is why LinkedIn discussions are important. What would you answer to the question posed above?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2011

It’s a voice for the grassroots, the rank-and-file, for people who never had a voice until now. I guess I got myself a “bully pulpit&# of sorts that I don’t really want or need, but it’s good for getting the word out about people of good will who get stuff done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels. If your CEO’s social media profile is simply duplicating your brand’s feed and voice, it enters the Uncanny Valley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

You may be one voice, but there’s other folks who can help out” – @nickinsfo #SMoP14 — Megan Keane (@penguinasana) May 22, 2014. His answers: “My best ideas are normally wrong.” ” @nickinsfo Know your weaknesses so you can be strong. SMOP14 @TSFF. Tolu Lawrence (@tolulawrence) May 22, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Among the missing voices in the dialog are government funders, whose needs for unbiased contracting processes that promote accountability and prevent fraud don’t always lend themselves to the level of flexibility in resource allocation that has made these service changes possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Google caught the attention of the tech industry in May when it rolled out Google Duplex , a new voice assistant that could talk over the phone with humans to schedule appointments or make restaurant reservations — complete with “ums,” “ahs” and pauses just like a human. Bots are also not limited to social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

HALF OF ONE PERCENT (yes, I’m raising my voice). Leaders have an obligation, but more importantly, they see real value in ensuring that staff and stakeholders have a voice. And the bottom line is that I came to the nonprofit space to make a difference and have a voice. Let em sink in. We need a new generation of leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2016

Add your voice to this critical survey gathering information on the impact of various identities on the experiences of professionals within the nonprofit sector. The final page of the survey asks for your contact information (name and email) to be entered in the raffle. Only completed surveys will be entered for the raffle. BMPRaceSurvey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2009

It's great to see and hear some familiar voices, including Sam Gregory from Witness, Dina Mehta, and Marek Tuszynski. Investigate and Expose. How to Use Complex Data. Use Collective Intelligence 9. Let People Ask the Questions 10. Manage Your Contacts. Not to mention the excellent resource. It's a must see, must read, must download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Using photos for online organizing is not limited to the US, it is global. Here is a recent example from Global Voices Online reporting on how activists in the Philippines used selfies to protest train fare hikes. This campaign combines the popular selfie with the time honored hold a sign meme. Family is Familia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ). This U-Stream will be archived via The Emergency Social Data blog. 2) Via Twitter and #crisisdata hashtag. There will be a formal Twitter chat at 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT featuring questions from @ntenhross and @ikepigott.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend. These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

Improve the quality of life for our most vulnerable residents in a cost-efficient manner through a platform that provides everyone a voice and the opportunity to identify problems and offer solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Because they are collaboratively editable, they are great for anything that requires a teasing out a group voice – agendas, statements or announcements, etc. To be truly effective, the online experience should be tied – topically, in culture, in voice, in attitude – to the experience(s) of the group in other spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

” There is also “ Fire Drill Leadership ” as defined in this article as a shrill voice or tone that makes everything an emergency when it isn’t. The article describes the reasons why operating like this all the time is not a good idea: 1. An actual emergency is not given proper urgency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2014

Thriving is about being intuitive and being able t listen to your inner voice and not be so busy that you can’t hear it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

Moving Past Pixels: Claiming Your Strategic Voice – [link] coordinated by Eve Simon (Be sure to see all the great panels Beaconfire has put together for voting). [link] – coordinated Olivia Melikhov. What’s Up Doc? Social Engagement in Disasters [link] coordinated by Wendy Harman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

As Henry Timms says, “ Will the voices of reason be drowned out by extremists of all kinds? The book suggests that those who want to reach their goals and be successful whether it is for good, bad, or the trivial, need to know how to best channel this participatory energy. These are key questions of our times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Bringing in those diverse voices means we can tell more stories and invite in new audiences.”. We’re going to be working with departments across the organization to create content, instead of just reporting out from a policy or movement perspective.

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