Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

People and Connections Map : Helps you map your network. Work at human scales and connect across networks of people and things. Learning Loop: Develops a clear plan based on what has been done before. Thinking Hats: To generate new ideas. This is not the only social design toolkit. Lucy Kimbell: Social Design Menu Method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

When we apply a network mindset to the way we work – whether as an individual or as part of a network strategy, we believe that value is created through our connections, interactions and building relationships. The impact, longer term, is innovation or the result of the network in action. E-Mediat Twitter Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. The headline is: Social Network and Mid-Size Nonprofits: What's The Use? Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority of respondents to our survey say they are going to increase their investment in the use of social networking.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Research from Community Brands consistently shows that members place high value on networking and staying up to date on industry news, trends, and regulations. Instructions and a timeline for early adopter members to post on the day of the rollout and for the next several weeks after the launch. ?. The plan might include:?.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At the highest level, most nonprofits recognize that a) there are lots of people communicating via social media channels, b) those people influence their friends and family through social media channels, and c) those people and their networks are supporters or potential supporters of nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits and Social Media?

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A couple of decades later a quick search on Idealist.org turns up over 2000 current jobs and tons of nonprofit social media professionals on networks like Nonprofit.ist. A couple decades later a quick search on Idealist.org turns up over 2000 current jobs and tons of nonprofit social media professionals on networks like Nonprofit.ist.

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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

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

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. It has been adopted across the disciplines, institutional types, and throughout the world. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Do you have experience with networking and building relationships? Are you comfortable with planning and executing fundraising events? Are you comfortable with writing persuasively (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I was in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-day workshop is designed for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Justice Leaders, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset. You can find the workshop materials here.

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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

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

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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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. Publish the mapping publicly to incentivize adoption by product providers and grantmakers who may have custom solutions. Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The c-suite has just approved your strategy to leverage networks and social media for your mission. This workshop will share strategies and techniques for changing your nonprofits culture to be more agile, training other staff to be social to scale, and managing your nonprofit’s c-suite and board.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

This could be applied at networking events, speaking events, meetings, new team introductions, and more. This can result in many employees feeling left out of important connections and networks, an outsider who doesn’t belong in certain settings and contexts. You toot the horn for other women!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2011

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. Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus share their approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time – either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic.

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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

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

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. Also, if I’m on calls I do them while walking around. I have gotten good at taking notes while I walk.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

Volunteer management is the process your organization uses to create your network of volunteers. Adopting an engaging volunteer management style helps bolster confidence in your supporters, ultimately leading to more volunteers. Volunteer management: Yields more volunteers. Offers better scheduling and communication.

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 17, 2011

We have a great line-up of presenters, including cloud experts – and NTEN Members – Ami Dar (ED at Idealist.org), Matthew Eshleman (Director of Professional Network Services atCommunity IT Innovators), and Donny Shimamoto (Founder of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies). > Learn more and RSVP for free today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories. Extra Life, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ 24-hour fundraising marathon, has a large number of Canadian participants and donors. Closing thoughts.

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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. . Are you impulse adopting tools? Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Attend some of the FREE social media gatherings or meetups in your city and network with other nonprofits like Net2Tuesdays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

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. Arts organizations are not alone in this. Just over 70% of our respondents, a majority, said “yes.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This interactive webinar experience will begin with a plenary session providing an overview of social media strategy, organizational adoption issues, capacity, metrics, and strategy execution. Experience a variety of social web tools that are essential in listening/engaging, storytelling, generating buzz, and online networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. He's learned from these experiments that it is challenging to adopt these tools/techniques and there needs to be an investment in teaching and learning.

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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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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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