Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Most nonprofits use marketing tactics to recruit, like emails, social media posts, blog posts, and web pages. Shockingly, according to a Software Advice research report, 52 percent of nonprofits are still using Excel and Google Docs to run their development operations. Supervise Volunteers. Recognize Volunteers. Have a shift change?

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ve recently witnessed an unprecedented number of what many consider to be “transformational gifts” across the social sector. This often includes engaging trusted advisors to help assess the situation, provide unbiased advice, and help set realistic goals and objectives. So, how can funders assist here?

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Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

Your key players are folks whose input and advice you’ll need to resolve a crisis and craft messaging to deal with the crisis. Which staff members have access to our social media accounts? Messaging execution: Who is responsible for scheduling your social posts, emails, or press releases? Identify your key players.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. The majority of the time I spent thinking, I can't believe it's taken me this long to watch our own webinars and listen to our own advice! Supposedly, social media comes more naturally to me. We human beings are social beings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. I'm so glad she did because for a while I've been wanting to better understand how a social media strategy can best align with overall communications strategies and where the nuances of implementation may different.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. They provide advice and guidance to help elevate your learning business, which your team would then put into action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Recently there was a webcast hosted by the Lean Start Up Conference about implementing lean impact with Christie George of New Media Ventures and Akash Trivedi of Kiva.org who discussed how they apply lean to social good. One example Christie gave was describing the origins of Louder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Digital technologies are connecting residents in neighborhoods, catalyzing community discussions, changing the way governments and citizens interact, and making government more transparent. This growing field of “civic tech” is aiming to harness technology to spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. When the discussion turned to what words make tweets great it was revealed that a key ingredient to successful tweets wasn't so much language but good Twitter etiquette.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this super-sized episode, Blackbaud’s Rachel Hutchisson talks to both Gary Levante, senior vice president of Corporate Responsibility & Culture at Berkshire Bank and Icema Gibbs, director of Corporate Social Responsibility at JetBlue. They also give advice for how other companies can make a mark on this global day of giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. What is Social Learning or Learning in Public? Social media is a conversation engine.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Davis Parchment, and data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson about the research results, implications, and advice for next steps. Want to see more? Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Photo by Bart Maguire Note from Beth: I invited Stephanie to publish her blog post about the network evaluation discussion we had with Michael Quinn Patton yesterday. If you have thoughts, please join the discussion over here. Partner Our discussion followed along this frame. Coordinate ? Coordinate ? Cooperate ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I first came across their thinking and work on building social networks for social change via the resources section on the Barr Foundation web site back in 2006. Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

If you are interested in social change and the way that networks help realize change, you must stop what you’re doing and read this report now. Here’s a summary of a few of my favorite parts and framing. Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

And, as much as we can, we’ve tried to do this in public—sharing our thinking online in real time and asking grantees, colleagues, and the world at large for their feedback and advice. Ongoing advice and feedback from a group of six informal advisors inside and outside the Foundation. Current State of Non-Profit Capacity Building.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Organizations continually operate in “not enough” mode and are expected to try to make the best of their limited resources and create (and evaluate) the most impact possible. People could share what they had planned, what worked and what didn’t (and why), and what advice they would offer to others just starting on their journeys.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Whether you’re a brand-new nonprofit looking to recruit your very first volunteers or are a seasoned pro, it’s important to first evaluate and assess your volunteer needs and to do so frequently. Of course, be sure to work with your staff team to get an outside perspective and seek advice from trusted colleagues, mentors, and managers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Technology and Its Emerging Impact on Foundation Communications " is a new report that describes how philanthropy communications professionals are using social media. There is some good basic common sense advice about how to move forward with adopting Web 2.0 Allant of Social Edge said, We???re An Exploration of Web 2.0

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Evaluate external threats and opportunities. That’s why it’s important to follow advice like the Pareto principle, which advises putting 80% of your resources into cultivating the top 20% of prospective donors who are likely to give you 80% of your funding. Follow up on a different marketing channel, such as social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media. If you’re reading this blog, it’s probably because you’re a huge fan of social media and believe that it empowers all of us to connect, create, explore, and understand our world. Can your community be a hub for this kind of dialog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I was most interested in Part 2 (pages 17-21) because I think the advice is applicable to organizations beyond those managing head start programs. Discussions on how to improveresults are rarely part of staff meetings. Data are not linked to organizational resultsor mission-driven goals across programs. There are periodic (e.g.,

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

My first piece of advice is this: . It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology. NOTE: Each of these programs bears its own discussion, so feel free to click on the links offered above. Prioritize sustainable individual donor and legacy fundraising if you’re not doing so already. Closing Thoughts .

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While there are many technology consultants available, take the time to evaluate what they specialize in and the services they provide. Discuss the project with your board. Be sure to include evaluating consultants in your timeline, as this process can often take weeks to months. Begin by defining your organization’s needs.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Annaliese pointed out to us that podcasting is usually not perceived as digital storytelling , and we agreed that this is an idea worth discussing. We'll discuss the question, and we'll have a little fun, but we'll also give practical answers and advice. Are you interested?”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What I like best is that it takes the mystery out of social media metrics. The chapter that caught my curiosity was Chapter 7: Failing Faster - Unleashing the Power of Testing and Experimentation and we discussed it in the video above. With social media and on the web, experiments are fast, cheap, and scalable.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Throughout the pandemic, I fielded calls from colleagues asking for advice on a range of issues. Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. Discussions involving feelings can be challenging.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Data philanthropy efforts are reviewed and advice for writing about data is offered. This Wall Street Journal post discusses how John Arnold a former natural-gas trader at Enron and hedge fund founder is giving away his $4 billion fortune through a new “Moneyball” approach to giving. Data and Philanthropy.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

We’ve been discussing this very important topic in a 3 part series of guest blogs posts from the folks at the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Check out this great compilation of '' Must-Read Online Fundraising, Social Media and Mobile Communications Reports for Nonprofits '', assembled by Tech for Good. She got lots of great advice on how to work together better, from staff and board members, to consultants and grant writers. Register now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Check out this great compilation of '' Must-Read Online Fundraising, Social Media and Mobile Communications Reports for Nonprofits '', assembled by Tech for Good. She got lots of great advice on how to work together better, from staff and board members, to consultants and grant writers. Register now!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: Measuring, Evaluating, and Improving Nonprofit Effectiveness. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help. San Francisco, California: Impact Investing 101: Panel Discussion. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2017

Why are we discussing big goals? This is so much more than the UN pointing at a North Star – with the emphasis on outcomes tracking baked into the SDGs framework, we have the indicators to see if we’re on track to achieving social change with a ready-made formula to measure success. Let’s take a step back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development.

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