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

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. She’s only 10 years old!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver.

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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

We reflected. 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. Publish the mapping publicly to incentivize adoption by product providers and grantmakers who may have custom solutions. We adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Working in a networked way is more non-linear, faster paced, informal, and very porous. And, sand boxes are social.

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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

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. If I had more bandwidth and if I had been more ambitious goals, I would have set up unique tracking URLs in bit.ly I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

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. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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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

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here. There is also always an inherent power struggle in teaching networked technologies to people in positions of power.

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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. 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: Red Cross.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Is there a hot new social platform that your entire workforce is adopting? A newer more professional network which needs to be linked to your learning approach?) Consistency is key in fostering user adoption, as well as choosing elements that are not too far displaced from methods your workforce is already familiar with.

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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. . Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Are you impulse adopting tools? Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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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. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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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

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

APRIL 11, 2008

In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? The Art of Person-to-Person Networking, Community Building, and Connectedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Networking ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Back in the 1990s, the overload was coming from email.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. The visual design of your website should be bold and accurately reflect your organization’s brand or identity. This is a trend worth adopting! Your organization’s website should be fulfilling a few vital functions: Communicating your mission and work.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

Adopting a sustainable fundraising approach builds a resilient shield, ensuring your vital programs and services remain uninterrupted. As leaders and ambassadors, they stand in a unique position to weave their networks, expertise, and influence into a strong fundraising fabric. Been there, faced that!

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Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. Networking Insight Blog. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! It's messy. Step 1: Find People.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. A community provides insights.

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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. Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation by Beth Kanter. > [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops. marniethedog , a 12 year old senior dog who was adopted, but diagnosed with an illness that made her head tilt. Workshop/Training Reflections. The speakers included: Amanda Kelso, Instagram.

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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. What worked a few years ago, may not today. What worked a few years ago, may not today.

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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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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. SEEP Network. Thanks to custom development and integration with Salesforce , the site instantly reflects every gift ICA receives!

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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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