Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

I invited Lisa to reflect on her experience and share some advice as a blog post. We began the Book Club by carefully crafting a couple questions per chapter, and focusing on about one chapter per week. The Networked Nonprofit Book Club: Anytime, Anywhere Learning – guest post by Lisa Colton. In fact, it was great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

Geoff frames his strategy advice in the context of the current media landscape and how it has changed and evolved since his first book, Now is Gone, as he discusses in this interview from Networked for Good. I went straight to the strategy and measurement chapters. These include: Conversation Starters. Relationship Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. That's just about when I discovered Avinash Kaushik's blog, Occam's Razor and his first book on Web analytics.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2015

Every month, our chapter leaders bring together the local nonprofit community for live events that share best practices and case studies of how technology can be used for social good. If you love bringing people together to talk about how we can use technology for good, you're just the person we want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourced Haircut by Tracy the Astonishing The book I'm working on with Allison Fine includes a chapter on crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Just leave a comment with you best advice for person-to-person fundraising strategies. Of course, I haven't much time to sit down and read the book from cover to cover and there is a lot in there for larger organizations plotting integrated strategies and some good case studies. There's a good chapter by Steven R.

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Care2

JULY 12, 2012

After reading it I can say that this book, which includes lots of concrete examples and case studies, is a must-read if you want to understand a framework for creating great cause marketing programs. Did I mention that one of David’s co-authors is legendary marketing professor Philip Kotler? From David Hessekiel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

If you've been thinking of launching or expanding your organization in social media, Slideshare is a good starting point for information and advice. Beth Dunn’s presentation covers the basics, complete with case studies, and suggests Quick start and Advanced Quick Start tactics to launch your nonprofit into social media.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2016

The book contains advice from several nonprofit experts, including myself, and has plenty of case studies too. This is one of those books where you read a chapter and then frantically write down lots of ideas and notes that come into your head.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

Student seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential from over 40 campuses across the country attend workshops, hear from national leaders and provide the host community with opportunities to learn from student case studies. The highlight of AMI was the case study. We will find the funds somehow.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

The book contains advice from several nonprofit experts, including myself, and has plenty of case studies too. This is one of those books where you read a chapter and then frantically write down lots of ideas and notes that come into your head.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Before the excellent how-to advice and fantastic case studies, he explains "Why Facebook Isn't a Silver Bullet" in some very clear bullet points. It is a quick read and very useful. Content on the site is disorganized. Dedication levels are opaque.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I also contributed a chapter on the topic to NTEN's Managing Your Technology To Meet Your Mission due out by Wiley I covered the building blocks of a classic ROI process, but translated to a nonprofit context. Bill Johnson has some advice, what nonprofits may call the "Opportunity Cost" S how the Cost of Not Participating.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

I’m a big believer in having conversations across the industry ( check out my podcast, if you haven’t already) to share honest advice about what’s working and what’s not—I feel that it’s one of the best ways for us learn and lift the fundraising profession together. Building year-end content strategies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Blogging, Social Bookmarking, Expertise Matching, and MySpace Looks like Marnie Webb is using Ma.gnolia.com for her linkblog Britt Bravo launched the " Basic Blogging for Women " blog filled with pointers and summaries of advice to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

If you are interested in this topic, you might also like this post about the Advice exhibition which tested a similar principle. Her case study about Structured Dialogue in the Signtific Game in chapter 3 describes a project where people engaged in conversation online about wild ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

One unique idea is in the area of donor advice, for example developing a personal assistant for donors to help them decide where to donate. What about questions of legal liability in cases where algorithms cause harm? . A section of the report is devoted to how AI and automation might impact communications with donors.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. I’ll show you a little bit more of this case study I think later. We’ll do a quick case study and then we’ll pivot over into Q&A in just a few minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The NY Chapter of the Red Cross offers Ten Tips in this YouTube Video. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). No one is going to volunteer advice to the museum if they don't think it will be used. This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

&# I had a quick chat with Claire about this idea and invited her write a guest post to celebrate the launch of her new book, Twitter for Good – which is filled with great insights and practical advice about making Twitter power your nonprofit’s mission. Specific case studies back up these three points.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And as I got to learn the sector and was talking to other leaders, talking to other fundraisers, I found that a lot of the approaches or advice or industry misconceptions were keeping great organizations from growing. Okay, so let me start with a case study and then I’ll move into the details and break it down for you.

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