Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2018

Adult beverages are often part of the routine checklist when hosting nonprofit events. If your organization is a large entity and you regularly host events that serve alcohol, it is likely that liquor liability is included with your nonprofit's insurance. Discuss “mocktails” with your bartenders, and promote those drinks at the bar.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2018

Adult beverages are often part of the routine checklist when hosting non-profit events. If your organization is a large entity and you regularly host events that serve alcohol, it is likely that liquor liability is included with your non-profit's insurance. Discuss “mocktails” with your bartenders, and promote those drinks at the bar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Nonprofits that scale up tend to employ this sort of “R & D” approach to concoct successful program recipes and establish success measures. Flickr Photo by S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. The Capacity-Building Frontier(s) – guest post by Barbara Kibbe.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference will offer a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Sacha Litman, Managing Director, Measuring Success. Stay tuned for a blog post about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Less restrictive funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Photo By Kalexanderson. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

In a panel hosted by TechSoup, representatives from four arts organizations discussed how they are using social media in new and innovative ways to market the arts. Michael DeLong, senior manager of online community and social media at TechSoup and managing editor at Emerging Arts Professionals , moderated the discussion.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Host an auction. Team up with local news.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The importance of thinking strategically is a point Beth Kanter , co-author of The Networked Nonprofit , hit on during a later presentation in which she encouraged all nonprofits to have tangible goals for what they want to accomplish with social media and measure results. Which tools are you using and why? Let us know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I’m thrilled to be spending a few days in London where I am keynoting The Future of Social conference hosted by Social Misfits Media. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. So many people asked interesting and thoughtful questions during the webinar that we wanted to make sure everyone gets a chance to see them and participate in the discussion! What should I do?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

We dove deep into data from the 2012 presidential race to provide fundraising insight you can use during the 2016 election year, including: The charitable giving habits of 400,000 political donors. How they were changed by the 2012 election cycle. Surprising demographics to target for outreach in 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. Fail Faire DC 2012 is a celebration of failure as a mark of innovation and risk-taking hosted by the World Bank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week during the Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation , someone asked me “What’s Next?” ” Christie George of New Media Ventures and Akash Trivedi of Kiva.org will discuss key Lean Impact approaches. Kyle Rush, Author and Technology Consultant.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

[Editorial note: the following article first appeared in the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , a free quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders.] In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. By most measures, we did. When is a meal more than a meal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. CERN (@CERN) July 4, 2012. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action. CMS : “we have observed a new boson with a mass of 125.3 ± 0.6

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

For example, ND-Burma’s May 2012 report, “ Extreme Measures ,” sheds light on torture and ill treatment in Burma since the 2010 elections, demonstrating that the Burmese government continues to commit abuses despite its being bound to international human rights treaties and norms.

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