Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. I pull out a few screen captures and then do an interview with the organization in front of the room. This typically unpacks more insightful information and nuggets of wisdom.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

This morning I did an interactive session at the Guardian hosted by its new voluntary sector network – a new online space where professionals working in and with the voluntary sector can discuss and debate the issues which affect their professional lives – and get advice and insight from peers and experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The last time I shared a plenary stage with Marcelo Iniarra was in 2014 at the International Fundraising Congress where he rode a bicycle on stage! Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. The campaign provides advice on how to self-examine and help detect signs and symptoms. Everyone loves a good story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. I’ve written a lot about how nonprofits without a lot of time or money might apply this easily to content curation to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? Expert Advice to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit. Make time to meet with a friend or loved one and talk to your manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. You, as the instructor, will learn along with them because you are not the one talking the whole time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Whether your event is hybrid offline/online event or virtual, one way to think through a strategy for events is a simple: Before, During, and After. I queried nonprofit colleagues, asking for their best advice. Says Paull Young from charity:water, “ You can set it up in minutes, but it is one-time deal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

I interviewed Jim Murphy , Senior Online Editor, about how Human Rights Watch ’s integrated social media strategy leverages the personal brands HRW 197 employees to get results. When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

In The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it's too late? and don't quit!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits? at the Smithsonian 2.0

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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. If you don???t

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it''s too late? and don''t quit!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Getting to Know and Cultivating Free Agents: Here’s my best advice on this. A big thank you conference organizers!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

Drawing on extensive research, including a comprehensive, original workplace survey and in-depth interviews with Millennial managers, Millennials Who Manage , offers teaches Millennial readers how to overcome workplace perceptions and become great leaders. My advice is to accept the inevitability of both. Espinoza : Great question.

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BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2016

While many were concerned that having a junior board would take a lot of staff time away from other critical functions, what we’ve heard has been wholly to the contrary. For advice on managing your junior board with a minimal amount of time, read our Top 9 Tips for Managing Your Junior Board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

In general, they tend to wait until the kinks in the platform are worked out and there is less risk involved investing staff time. Nedra Weinreich says, “Until we know whether G+ is going to attract more than just us social media types, I’m hesitant to recommend that any organizations invest too much time in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement. In a recent interview, John Hadyon reinforced this timeless piece of Facebook engagement advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

I've been thinking a lot about Wendy Harmon's advice about ROI and Social Media: A project that won???t t take much time and relates to org goals. Because your prospects and customers typically search the Web for reviews and recommendations, you can help them save time by rounding up some of the more interesting ones.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it''s too late? and don''t quit!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I realize that finding the time to experiment for many of us can be difficult, especially if those experiments do not lead to direct outcomes. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Make it fun.

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APRIL 3, 2023

Adele, who is the CEO and Founder of Convincing Company , describes this technique as using an open-ended comment to encourage someone to reveal additional significant information. It’s a technique that is described in her book, “Convince Me,” due to be published in September. As a recent guest on the Association 4.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2007

In fact, it has been very time consuming learning a complicated piece of sotfware, not too mention having it make me feel stupid because I'm not groking it instantly. The father of screencasting, Jon Udell , who of course is a technical expert in everything, uses this technique -- the screencast interview or talk show.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

But finding the staff time and creativity to come up with fresh, original content for every channel on a regular basis can be exhausting. Us e the content you've already created and reheat or remix it over time and across channels. Have more time. Q & A Interviews. Your work is courageous, compelling, groundbreaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. " I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally. Here's another one called " Meet Charlie."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

I also video blogged the session and caught up with a participant for a quick interview about their impressions. Next time, I think I might keep the video really short so it doesn't take so much time to render. He has two more indepth powerpoints packed with advice just on making documentaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Interview with Jonathon Colman. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Gnomedex Real Time Fundraising Experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

In my work, I have 20 minutes to interview Bill Gates and I need my equipment to work." " It is important to keep in mind that there are different levels of equipment investment , learning time, skills requirement, and planning time required. Middle of the Road.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

That's not a real question, just the idle thoughts of a slightly exhausted airline passenger stuck on a runaway on a Virgin America flight who can't use the wifi to get back to the clouds to summarize the rest of the of learnings/advice about social network analysis that came from Twitter while I was live tweeting. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

"At the click of a button, the Wage Guide converts ‘artisan per piece payment’ to a ‘daily wage’ and then compares the daily wage to international economic indicators providing advice on how to increase wages to meet these standards."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

Recently, I got to talk with Priya Haji, the CEO and co-founder of World of Good about their work and her advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs. You can hear the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read the transcript below. So it is a really exciting time for us as a company, and a lot of exciting growth. retail market.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission?

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Make your storytelling more emotional by using the following techniques: Include direct quotes or video interviews of your story’s protagonists. You’ve probably heard of the narrative technique “show, don’t tell.” This will reveal what your audience is passionate about and willing to devote their time and money to supporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

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. And, while I practice before I present, many times - I have some parts that are new. Didn't have enough time to focus on applying the tools.

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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. Some people say they are just too busy to do these things, but taking time for self-renewal shows self-awareness, not selfishness. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice.

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