Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Use feedback in action to adjust as you go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In my experience, the more diverse group you can get together to have this conversation and work through this planning together, the more complete a picture you can draw of your community. Even though much of these will be online social technologies, don’t forget about the offline spaces, too. And that’s okay! Step 2: Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

After taking a break, I felt a lot like Hank – I just wanted to keep on resting. But in the quiet and last days of 2012 and the reflective moments in the new year, it was time to face the new year! I decided to go offline and take a break from blogging, pinning, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? What's your strategy map?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

It's not easy to do because it requires balancing action with reflection. Conversational Fundraising, Not Asking: Twitter is great for "viral spreading of your message" and is useful for donor acquisition. it's been in churches, immigrant communities, and many other places offline for years.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! The tools we use often reflect the communities we are in, whether those communities are geographic, ethnic, or otherwise.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! The tools we use often reflect the communities we are in, whether those communities are geographic, ethnic, or otherwise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

These steps are about figuring out who in organization is going to have the conversations. Step 4: Go Offline. What I like best about this section is that the focus isn't on numbers only - these are reflective questions related to learning. The action - feed -reflection process is very important. Step 2: Prepare.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

(You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? test and teweak. pick the right metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Social Actions has a great list of links about other platform developments, resources, and news happening in the fundraising 2.0 Here's three themes worth reflecting on. It focuses on relationship building -- very important to any fundraising success -- both online and offline - and regardless of tools. donate now???

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AUGUST 15, 2013

How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

From tracking conversations and donations to event registrations, you can note every interaction you have with a supporter in your nonprofit CRM. As your nonprofit grows and develops, you’ll need to continue training to ensure your software also reflects your needs. Ask about training resources for the solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Gets feedback and start conversations about their work. One of my favorite exercises is to get folks to take a minute to think of a question or conversation starter related to their communications goals or programs. Most people easily come up with a question. Monitors, listens, and researches the people in their network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video. I have people line up from "very comfortable" to "not so comfortable" and facilitate a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We knew what was coming.

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MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. You'll want to post regular reflections on your blog, and on Twitter and Facebook so people can engage with you along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

So, it is important to define what you need to know, what actions you'll take once you have the information before you rush out generate diagrams of your network. For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. Network maps support "what if conversations.".

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) 6 Katrin 09.19.07 But then again, demagoguery always is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. I think there are ways to design and deploy limited experiments or action learning around these tools - and take incremental steps towards adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. We try and duplicate offline experiences (be they useful or not) and not really take advantage of the medium. Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream.

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APRIL 5, 2021

A fully customized donation page with a compelling appeal and branded call to action can be the difference between converting a visitor or losing a donation. Follow these 10 best practices to optimize your main donation page for conversion: . Use high-quality images or graphics to support your call to action. Consistency is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? There are offline ways to do it.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the question here is, you know, when you look at your workflow, how much of your time is spent actually having these face-to-face conversations with your donors? . The volunteer did not ask for money, but they had a nice pleasant half-hour conversation. . Are you hiding and avoiding them? . If not, chat will work for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The intent was to provide a deep dive for program officers to reflect on the way they currently work, identify what needs to change to create more impact, and come up with some prototypes. There would be both an online and offline site. What is actionable? Each team got to present their idea to the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page. This post reflections on the training design as well as my content notes. I’ll look forward to read any reflections from Alan on how this worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

Be a little less "formal" and try a few fun updates and other content that sparks conversations. The morning included a speech by Kari Dunn Saratovsky who talked offline/online connections as well as some of the challenges that charities face such as cause fatigue and slacktivism. . Was it all hype? .

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JULY 21, 2022

The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! And one of the best ways to do that is through integrated, consistent messaging across all channels – online and offline. Pro tip: don’t ignore your website conversion rate. There’s Power in Numbers.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. Audience Development These events bring in new audiences in a comfortable context. several years.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. Let’s keep the conversation going. I’m jelly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. The messages or story is created, shared via intermediaries and consumed by a target audience that takes action.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. . We start to take action. . That is my goal, is for you to have a few actionable takeaways.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2017

How are you building relationships now that will turn into donations, actions and mentions later? Micro influencers will want to promote brands that reflect well upon their own presence. Can we talk offline?”. With this for inspiration, let’s look at micro influencer engagement for nonprofit causes.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

That is from one action from one Zoom briefing. Use your communication channels to highlight current volunteers by using testimonials with a call to action. Consider this when you reflect back on what your nonprofit has been through and where you’re going. I was ready, ready with the conversation. Expression.

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