Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Miscellaneous (3 percent). If you are an infomediary. If you are a product provider.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

In our book, Networked Nonprofit , we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit – a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. Click Through to Flickr for Attributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

I thought the points about measurement were right on and applies to other types of nonprofits. But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

I try to walk between 15K steps a day using my fitbit to measure it. I’ve also replaced networking requests for “coffee” for “walking meetings.” The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. It’s not a luxury.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Momsrising is an early adopter of online tools currently exploring the Google + platform and discussing it in team meetings. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

and the first global Internet networking organization for women, Webgrrls International. This book takes off where The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit left off — helping individuals and the nonprofit organizations they work for how to live and work with online networks in more sustainable ways.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

What people in the room were most hungry for were tips and steps on listening and measurement. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media. How Feeding America Uses KPIs to Measure Social Media. A Roundup of Social Media Measurement Resources for Nonprofits. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits.

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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.” You’ll need to be sure your chosen tool supports the networks you use. Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Examples include goals for implementing new fundraising channels or techniques, top prospects you hope to engage, check-in points along your timeline, and any limitations that could keep you from adjusting the plan as necessary to account for challenges that arise. Your networks. Understanding your supporter base. Internal + Board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Are you impulse adopting tools? Use Time Management Techniques. Great work.

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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

APRIL 11, 2008

How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? How will you measure your success? The Art of Person-to-Person Networking, Community Building, and Connectedness. What is the difference between a community and a network? The Socially Networked Nonprofit.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The authors are David Brotherton and Cynthia Scheiderer who will present the report at the upcoming Communications Network conference. tools and techniques. There is some good basic common sense advice about how to move forward with adopting Web 2.0 I'm still wading my way through it. I'm still wading my way through it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It also doesn't make sense to maintain an expensive network and infrastructure when you have no (or few) on-premise employees. FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? More from the Convio Summit this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). The top ranked content was on strategy including metrics, adoption, and overall strategy. I have no way to measure the guest blogging impact on other people's blogs accept by self-reporting. How could I have done a better job of measuring its success?

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

They are the result of research — measuring something quantitatively or qualitatively, formally or informally; usually involving a question, a purpose, and by necessity a methodology and instrument. All data depend on measurement, even data as common and seemingly objective as the weather. What if I don't speak loudly enough?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I try to walk between 10-20k steps a day, using my fitbit to measure it. I’ve also replaced networking requests for “coffee” for “walking meetings.” The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. How I Got Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. A network cloud is just a collection of servers living out on the Internet providing various services -- much like how websites are served from a web server, but in a much larger, scalable fashion. They may be infected. Well, it's back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

As colleague Bob Filbin, DoSomething’s Data Scientist, pointed out in his presentation earlier this week , we can apply a/b testing to social media measurement. As I was helping her translate the data in excel spreadsheet into a line graph, I realized that the project was essentially an a/b test.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

It’s a way to measure your online impact and you can easily find these influencers. So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. Will you post this to your networks?”

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In fact, the nonprofits that we see withstanding the pandemic with the most ease are the ones that are the quickest to adopt a comprehensive digital fundraising strategy. It’s an acronym that stands for: Smart Measurable Actionable Realistic Time-Bound. And, one of the tried-and-true digital fundraising strategies is crowdfunding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” After spending five years living and breathing networks and measurement and designing and delivering many, many nonprofit capacity building programs, my focus is going to be on how nonprofits can apply measurement and their networks to learn for impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

. ” This can have a chilling effect on an organization’s social media strategy to say the least. It runs counter to the “ networked mindset ” that is so important to being a networked nonprofit and building networks and movements. The article has examples, but the advice is this: Denise M.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Now, restate your objective so it is “SMART” – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based? Make your objectives "SMART" (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound). Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1.

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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! The Five Stages of Measurement Acceptance. What are the go-to tools?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

Note From Beth: Just before I left for Rwanda, I caught some interesting discussion threads about organizational adoption of networked ways of working on Twitter coming from the #COFLA hashtag as a result of the Council on Foundations gathering in Florida. These techniques could be used to. Crowd-sourcing ideas.

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