Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

The book is based on a five-year research project where Janus interviewed hundreds innovative nonprofit organizations. Her book is based on traveling the country and visiting and interviewing dozens of social entrepreneurs who started nonprofits such as Teach for America, City Year, DonorsChoose, charity:water, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

She interviewed Manny Hernandez from Tu Diabetes and Es Tu Diabetes , and Ayumi Stubbs from the ASPCA Online Community. Combined, these networks have almost 20,000 members, a testament to the hard work (and networking expertise) of these two network creators. Here are their best tips and advice ??? whether you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

I decided interview her because her slideshow, " Tweeting 9 to 5: The Daily Routine of a Slightly Insane Social Media Marketing Manager " caught my eye. Her advice about work routine is particularly valuable. It's my job as a social marketer to use the stats to figure out what is working and what is not.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work. Check the donor’s Facebook and LinkedIn profiles then Google them to see what you can learn about them. Many major donors do not have high-profile online identities. Some are Internet ghosts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

My senior year of college I knew that I wanted to do work that made a difference, but I didn't know what kind of work that would be. I was a sociology major, but wasn't attracted to social work. I'd worked at a DC nonprofit the summer after my junior year that focused on policy work, but that wasn't a fit for me either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

I discovered this when I clicked on Skeeboo Tammas's profile while chatting with him in Second Life. His profile said. For more information about this amazing social lending network, visit Kiva.org That's only one method they use to help educate Second Life users about Kiva's work. Do good at Kiva.org! Kiva is not a charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

It also takes analyzing competitors and perhaps in the nonprofit sector, understanding the ecosystem or network of organizations working on similar issues. In short, listening is market research. With a relevant offering for the influencer, they seek blog coverage or social network profile endorsements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

So I tweeted Mari Smith who told me she had something in the works. I also searched around for some additional advice on Facebook Pages and I've summarized the key points below: Why have a Facebook Page? Because the number of Fans you can have is unlimited (whereas the Friend limit is 5,000 on an individual profile).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Social not -working??? " This got me thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2008

I've heard other colleagues comment, "Our legal department didn't know we had a MySpace profile until we could show the results." I'm also remembering an interview I did with Liz Burr who works for a PBS station in LA and she emphasized patience. " Ah, stealth adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

I was just reading an interview with The Nature Conservancy's Jonathon Coleman on Treehugger. ve brought huge amounts of new visitors to our site through these tools and have worked hard to develop engaging communities on them at the same time." Should I be creating a personal profile for the organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. And, how you click on your "friends" profiles and see their social streams. For the intermediate users, I put them to work sharing their knowledge. Any advice about using Google Wave?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. You might also want to check out some advice from EchoDitto's Joshua Wachs. This is more art than science, but you may want to consider " behavior-based interviewing ". Find an NPTech Job. So, what should you do?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2012

And you do that by: Creating the right image for yourself Increasing your public profile across your organization Exerting influence by driving change and inspiring people In an exclusive interview, Garfinkle answered these questions about his book: Question : How does a humble, introverted reader gain comfort to embrace your suggested actions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

So, I interviewed Iavor Ivanov, United Way's director of Web Experience to learn more about their approach. This a terrific example of in working in networked way. If I’m working on a particular social media task, I get input from other staff members. That’s part of our culture around here, we don’t operate in isolation."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Much of the advice is transferable to other social networking spaces. (I He interviewed Scott Goodstein, who has worked on the Save the Internet, Save1800Suicide and Military Free Zone campaigns, and Ivan Boothe of the Genocide Intervention Network. The advice is somewhat different from what is describe in the other article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I've worked with other groups - small business, higher education, librarians, educators, and others, but never all mixed up. So, I changed delivery tactics and it worked! Note to self: Need to have a back-up small group exercise that I could do when the game won't work). Then have the group work on coming up with those. (2)

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2008

In a recent interview for a magazine I was asked, "What tips do you have for the unemployed who are seeking full time employment?" If you work with a friend, or group of friends, agree to meet once a month (or more often if you have the time). Part of the fear people experience when looking for new work comes from being overwhelmed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0 Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Michelle Murrain posted about a NOSI primer is working on. Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. Check it out.

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APRIL 3, 2023

Chip has led high-profile criminal cases, investigated the September 11 th terrorist attacks, helped the CIA track down spies, and spearheaded the New York FBI Office’s Crisis Negotiations. For example, we were asked to work on President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot. Adele’s business partner Chip Massey is a Former FBI Special Agent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

Right before the holidays, eBay released 2009 figures for Giving Works , its fundraising program and marked a historic record for total funds raised for non-profits through ebay.com. I was lucky enough to do a quick email interview with Robert Chatwani, eBay’s head of Global Citizenship, to learn more behind the numbers. (1)

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. She sent me the names of four women from Up with People with descriptions of their work and why she thought they were Solutionary Women. before coming to Up with People.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2006

Rebecca is the founder of the nonprofit, Asthma Free School Zone and she was kind enough to answer my e-interview questions: Briefly describe Asthma Free School Zone. How did you get involved in this kind of work? What do you enjoy the most about your work with Asthma Free School Zone? You will work with the best of people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2006

Caroline was kind enough to answer a few questions for me as part of an e-interview. How did you get involved in this kind of work? What do you enjoy the most about your work with Turn Beauty Inside Out? What is the biggest challenge in your work with Turn Beauty Inside Out? Please share a success story from your work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Below is an edited transcript of my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jose in late August. What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. We don't work with start-ups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) Do you know anyone who's working specifically to draw attention to the "holes" in our networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

re working with???something Beth Dunn's " Money for Nothing, IT for Free " has a post about the importance of considering the total cost of a technology investment even if it is free and some advice for getting started. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What worked? Working with the team at the Meyer Trust - Marie, Amy, Aaron, and everyone was fantastic. I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. What didn't? I also like to practice my storytelling skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. • Pick one characteristic about yourself that youd like to change and earnestly work on changing it. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 14, 2006

I was thrilled when Catherine Conover, the Assistant Managing Editor & Communications Coordinator for New Moon magazine, contacted me and suggested that Nancy Gruver, the founder of New Moon, would be a great Solutionary Woman to interview. Describe the work that Dads and Daughters does. We do this in 3 primary ways: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The prelude to this interview is a tale of networking weaving. And, I really wanted to do an interview with him to find out more about the CSO and Facebook. ve noticed many of these youngsters are music students and proudly so (there are many that have profile photos with their instruments). t work in communicating.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? Did it work? What was your approach?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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