Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! My lesson plan includes a process documentation strategy of what and how I will document.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

These events are fiscally sponsored by NTEN and Microsoft and TechSoup is a partner in helping support the event. It was a broad gathering including everyone from consultants to students to startups – and nonprofits ranging from the San Francisco Bay Area focused Stride Center to the global fundraising platform Kiva.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." David Geilhufe said on an NTEN list earlier this week: " Watch out for Google's Facebook killing strategy, OpenSocial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The State of Nonprofit Data report was released this week (hat tip to Ted Fickes ). Idealware and NTEN prepared the report based on a survey in April 2012 with nearly 400 nonprofit organizations about how they manage and use data. The report found that nonprofits are either doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. My advice to the nonprofit technology community: let's start preparing now by thinking as creatively as possible. The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I asked the students what else does that? NTEN's Holly Ross's Birthday Blog Post. It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. The class blog features posts by the students. It blew me away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

I like Vladis Krebs' advice on this fine-tuning which is summarized in a post I wrote a few months back called " If you were stuck on a desert island, and could only follow 150 people on Twitter, who would you follow and why? The tuning element is about who you follow. All without the restraints of writing in complete sentences.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

On the NTEN blog, Lauren Giardin says it’s time to Take Charge of Your Editorial Process as Air Traffic Control. Beth Kanter provides simple, yet super helpful advice on how your organization can keep track of aha moments, lessons, ideas, mistakes and experiences during events. We Miss you!

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Perhaps nonprofits have listened to my advice over the years to time their email campaigns when the most giving happens. Students Need Your Help to Help Others. A Community That Gives: NTEN Member News. Emails by Hour. 32% of all fundraising emails were received between 9am ET and 1pm ET during the month of December 2015.

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