Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If you are new to fundraising, it’s CRITICAL to adopt a donor-based fundraising mindset so you aren’t constantly bombarding friends and family with small fundraisers. Break free from analysis paralysis. This is a procrastination technique, and it works! When you focus on your donors, you will get a better result. Be realistic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. In many cases, the slow to change eventually adopt or they no longer remain relevant to their constituents, donors, or loose their edge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience. I cover a couple techniques and tools using participants as an example to illustrate that keywords are king. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter. Example: Red Cross.

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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.” A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Are you impulse adopting tools? Use Time Management Techniques. Check in once or twice a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The first steps are simple once you have policy/philosophy in place and the right mix of bottom up/top down adoption or acceptance of social media. Here's how the Red Cross handbook states it: Step 1: Get Social Media Savvy Initiate personal social media use: Explore the tools you’d like to adopt by using them in your personal life first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These boiled to do: Lack of strategy, capacity issues, adoption issues, and lack of measurement techniques and approaches. I used their problems to share a few points about how to begin to address those challenges, holding the space for other participants to add their knowledge. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Are you impulse adopting tools? Use Time Management Techniques. Check in once or twice a day.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Deregulation has produced monopolistic practices that have resulted in higher prices for consumers and slowed the deployment of competitive networks. Encouraging residential adoption should be a top priority through educational programs and funding for schools and community organizations. Provide better data collection and analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” The one that resonated was “ Climate Hawks.” Someone is even selling bumper stickers with the phrase.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. In the social sector we need to look for the gaps, the unaddressed nodes in a network of need, so that the entire problem is addressed.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

NPTech folks are keenly aware of the rise of mobile phone adoption and the need to evolve their online strategies so NTEN made sure the topic was covered by offerings sessions on strategies for going mobile , HTML5 , and optimizing emails for mobile phones. Check out the slides. If they don’t, consider outsourcing the work. > [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best. Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. Sony Bolsters Web Presence with Social Networking Features by PR Week.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques. While we had a decade to adjust to websites being important, we’ve had a lot less time to figure out social media, and even less time to adopt a mobile first world. Read our latest analysis of p2p fundraising. Technology. Radical Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Most of the findings of the recent Network for Good report follow my experience with personal fundraising, especially the point "You can raise more than you think." Then, think about the implications in this new report from Network For Good called The Wired Fundraiser by Katya Andresen and Stacie Mann. 27% More To Go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2012

I am on a panel about measurement: Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Get Notified When Book Is Available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

You can also use Network For Good Good Card , it works like a debit card and the recipient gets to donate to any charity of their choice. Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools.

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