Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Nedra Kline Weinreich is a social marketing whiz kid. The book is available on Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. She was able to go to her boss and get some more resources in the budget for social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Building a solid core, participants can use social media tools to easily connect NGOS with new people who have knowledge, resources, and ideas to share to help with the project goals. I’ve subsequently have used this exercise in many different contexts for different purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

I blurbed this book with, “If you are looking for a recipe book for tips and tactics to integrate mobile and social media to round out your nonprofit’s marketing plan, look no further than this book.” This is called the hybrid model – although it has to be silo free for it work.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. I created a template for applying his question criteria to any topic (in my example, I used a fictional Mozart Festival). The London Symphony is a master of this technique. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. You can see the checklist here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Take for example their coverage on food that is devoured by a devoted flock of foodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. Personalization is a technique that uses your donor data to automatically insert the supporter’s name in the video. Why is 2011 even more important? Embed Video on a Donation Page.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. Well, like much of social media, it depends on the message. The third part of the TMWL infrastructure was Radian6, a social media monitoring tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

We will be discussing these questions: What are some successful examples of nonprofits incorporating a mobile/social integrated strategy? What is the most exciting mobile/social technologies that are on the horizon and hold much promise for nonprofits? Other examples: Planned Parenthood: Where did you wear it?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways. For others it was not so clear.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Yes and no.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Friday, December 24, 2010 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Having a mentor is one of the best things you can do to advance your career as a leader. So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). All great advice for leaders and managers as we start 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. For donors, you might seek to include young donors, donors with a certain capacity level or those with a history of supporting a particular issue area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. Therefore, my new question in presentations about social media has been to ask: Is this new? Social media accelerates the crowdsourcing process – it can happen faster. Crowdsourcing 101.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Wednesday, April 4, 2011 – 10:30-Noon. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Exciting examples: What are some great examples from nonprofits? I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation. She made the clear point that teens use social networks to connect with people they already know, not to meet strangers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.” ” Christie George of New Media Ventures and Akash Trivedi of Kiva.org will discuss key Lean Impact approaches. .” If you’re looking for examples of lean startups , there are hundreds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As we near the last quarter of 2010, its wise to think about how we can make our businesses stronger in 2011. Unfortunately, most businesses dont have a plan. •How will you integrate into your plan your web site, Social Media, Twitter and customer care phone lines? And, how often?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2010

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Sunday, October 17, 2010 What To Think About For Next Year Hopefully, 2011 will be better for most businesses. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

An example of positive feedback is : “Bob, your communications skills have dramatically improved over the past couple of months. So, skip the praise and give positive feedback that is more uplifting to your employees because it goes to the heart of their job performance and what they actually do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). If you promise to get an employee an answer, get it for him or her.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2011

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Tuesday, January 4, 2011 Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Earlier this year, various discussion groups on the social media site LinkedIn helped me build a list of favorite leadership books. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 2, 2010

Li explains in her new book what it means to be an open leader and why having those skills and behaviors are vital for effectively communicating with customers and employees in todays social media landscape. My complete book review is on my Kansas City Leadership Examiner.com page. Great read. I posted a review on my site as well.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If not, and you want to be a more effective leader for your team at work in 2011, select one or more of these 70 New Years resolutions for leaders: 1. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Okay, so youve found your New Years resolution for your personal life. But, have you identified your New Years resolution for your workplace life?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

▼ 2010 (108) ▼ December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

▼ 2010 (108) ▼ December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Give an example of when you demonstrated good leadership. ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2011

However, it’s really interesting how integrated online and offline marketing has evolved into in 2011. Fast forward to 2011, the age of smartphones, social media and 3D television. For example if I know $10,000 came in online from a campaign, that’s great. Were they past donors or new donors?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2010

And, speaking of best companies, Branham told me that Best Buy has received more than 900 cost-cutting and revenue-producing ideas from its employees via its employee social media site called Blue-Shirt Nation. So, its good to be reminded of what is working for the best companies during this challenging economy.

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