Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

” Others offered some good practical advice: Post an unusual (but relevant) photo. The truth is that is more “purple dots” or consistent content and perhaps a promoted post or two will certain get more visibility for my page. It was the first time in a long time that I took a long social media break.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

The best part was the input we received from attendees about tools to help social media managers get organized and develop content without straying from their mission. Some of the tools highlighted include: Content curation. FlipBoard : a content curator that brings you content based on your interests with a newspaper look and feel.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Event planners took this fact to heart in building a conference agenda that was a nice combination of roadmap previewing and a range of how-to, hands-on, and both technical and non-technical content. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. 3 Key Takeaways from DevOps Dreamin’. Camaraderie is one of the best learning opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

You can add your blog content, slide shows, reading lists, files, business travel, and more. Here's some great advice from Chris Brogan who how make your LinkedIn profile support your professional goals. Chris Brogan calls the addition of adding your business travel schedule "dog clever." more here ).

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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. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I recently caught up with Mazarine and asked her, “If there was one example or story you could share that exemplifies why you wrote this book, and a few examples of the kinds of content and resources included in the book, what would it be?” And here’s what she shared: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In our ongoing mission to provide technology information and resources to nonprofit organizations and libraries, TechSoup’s latest Nonprofits Live (NPLive) explored advice and resources for creating great presentations. Leroux Miller kicked off the discussion by offering advice focused on online presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. Steve did a content delivery presentation right before and then brought me in via audio as a “cameo appearance.&# We didn’t have enough bandwidth for video, so he projected my photo.

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Care2

OCTOBER 1, 2012

This is important because advice from family and friends is the most common way Boomers research a new product. They deliver local, personalized content to members on whatever device they choose to use. You can also check out the slides below. AARP doesn't just broadcast to their members, they listen and engage with them daily.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Classy team created engaging content that Collaborative participants could use in their professional lives. “ Zoom fatigue is real, so it’s important when creating a virtual fundraising event to be mindful of duration and timing, as well as ensuring that all content offered within your event provides value and actionable takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

The learning in public (slides and resources here ). There is always that moment when everything seems chaotic, before once again, the contents of your cabinet have some semblance of order and logic. You have to take everything out, decide what to keep and what to throw away, and then organize the materials for easy retrieval later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. Content is king. The campaign provides advice on how to self-examine and help detect signs and symptoms. It makes content creation more effective. The audience laughed.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Are the slides available? You can download a PDF of the slides and get the recording of the webinar right here. A: We got this same question a few times during last year’s webinar, so we offered up some advice for growing an email list through Facebook , and vice versa. Get people to engage with your content.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own Web sites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

This slide show from Stephen Collins make me think about teaching Internet Skills Workshops for Nonprofits that I used teach over dozen or so years ago. The slide show is from a session he did at BarCamp Sydney called " All You Do Is Talk Talk Talk." What advice would you offer others? | View | Upload your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Localized Content Delivery. We did a sessions on measurement, integrated content strategy, and content for blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

  The advice is geared for small businesses, not nonprofits, but a lot of it relevant and translatable.     (Resource list and Powerpoint Here ) Here's a screen capture of one of the slides that illustrates the structure they used: They divided the pie into equal thirds as follows: Website (as a home base).

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Advice from #15NTC , Tessa Srebro, VolunteerMatch [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 1 - How do I configure it? We ate BBQ by the pound , celebrated inspiring campaigns and community members , rode around on Segways , and did a lot of photoshopping. Did we miss anything?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

If you are bored with my description of process and hungering for the content, here’s Devon’s “Storify&# documentation for the session. Laura Lee Dooley captured this blog post about the session , plus you can find my slides all the links and other resources here. Click to see full size image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If They responded, " But what if the person who reuses your context slaps their logo on it and add a "All Rights Reserved" on the slide. What does that mean?".

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Find all speaker presentation slides on Slideshare. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

Just think of the positive and additional benefits that come from adding video, conference calls, photo albums, slide shows and a host of other techniques easily and inexpensively available. Develop Persona-Driven Content. Personas lead naturally into content. Different donors, different interests, different content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. Then had a discussion having the ready folks give advice to the not ready. . I revised a lot of the content to match the audience. In the why it is important section, I went through the social networking from birth to high school slides.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2010

Mastering Social Media for Fundraising Success". (**full presentation slides can be found here ) My favorite quote from their presentation - "Gardens are lovely as long as you water them. Facebook [or any social network] is your garden." I thought this simple statement really drove home the crux of what social media is all about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2006

" She suggests that you create your slides and then your presentation, expect that you'll find that the logic of your content will lead you to change (and improve) the organization of your slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. " My Web2.0

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

My last point is this- If you put in all the effort to follow the advice above, you better make your infographic easy for people to share. Check out the slides from my recent #BBCon session ( How to Create an Awesome Infographic for your School ) where I spoke specifically to an audience of K-12 technologists, marketers and fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios. The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . So if you have to leave early, or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, don’t worry, we will get all that in your hands later on today. Kevin, when you’re ready you can put the slide deck up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. I must also memorize how to skip around in powerpoint without flipping through slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. But, a top ten post would focus on the content itself - and also jump start some thinking that I need to do for a redesign of this blog. Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

For social networking projects which is all about online community management, I estimated 20 hours to get results. (Those are flying projects) Community management is more than blasting out messages to members of a Facebook group or posting or streaming content onto your house social network. I was quoted as saying that USAToday.

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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. Make it easy to re-mix your content. But it can be time-consuming to pick through a wide range of slideshows to find those that are up-to-date, actionable, and appropriate to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This workshop was advertised as a crash course and I think packed enough content in there for 3 full days. This gives the you -as the trainer an idea of how well the content matches people's questions and to let people know. This is time slot before when the energy starts to drop, but you have get through some content.

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