Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The money went to support students like Maneth, an IT major who now teaches computer lessons in the orphanage where my children lived. Check the web site to find an event near you or use the contact form to suggest one in your city. October is book launch month with events taking place in across the country. Thank you so much!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

If you are looking for inspiration, search for opportunities on Idealist , the partner site for Mozilla Serive Week. You might find a local opportunity, or you could also find a way to help across the miles by simply helping out with a tutorial or offering advice. Learn more about finding a project, here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A. I left the classroom in 2007 to join Teach For America staff where I pioneered graduate school recruitment for the organization through May of this year. Why are you passionate about teaching young people? Ideablob.com of course!

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2021

Today’s question comes from a donor relations manager who needs advice on how to best organize, prioritize, and stay on top of tasks. . As we move back to being on site and being able to connect with donors in person, strategies that were put on hold will need to be reactivated. This will take more time.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Do you call her or go through the weekend with a broken site? Since it was published, there's been an explosion of online education sites that offer free courses in everything from basic HTML to advanced Java programming. Like the other sites listed, Khan Academy. Reference Sites and Books. Sounds scary?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. My first piece of advice is this: . to Paypal or an off-site website form) to do so. People Yearn to Express their Love . Your job is to help them do so. Philanthropically.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

For Team MPhasis, its important to not only teach kids through sports, but to also incorporate our religious beliefs into our work. Having Godly principles embedded in our program is the most important concept that we teach, and we make that a clear focus right up front. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? All You Need is Love.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Organizational data is, by definition, far less personal than the information an individual might trust to the site, so you’re much less likely to want to keep it private. We talked to a few experts and condensed their advice into this article. We talked to a few experts and condensed their advice into this article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2008

The project will teach women how to use Web 2.0 I've boiled it down to a few networking principles that work not matter what tool or site you're using. So, when she invited to participate as a mentor in the Networking for Success project at the the Women???s s Technology Empowerment Centre. Of course, said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. These principles are still true today, but a lot of changed with the adoption of online professional social networking sites such as LinkedIn.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

We know that one size does not fit all, when it comes to teaching and learning about online security. It is a noncommercial site that has ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. A good place to get a start on that is the FCC Cybersecurity Site for Small Business. Tips and Advice.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

You might also consider taking some advice from a 67-year-old blogger. While you should be wary of anybody promising to teach you how to make people laugh, some of the advice itself can be pretty funny. You've also got your step-by-step guides, from buttons to headers to sites templates. Humor helps, too.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

– Plan a weekly “teach in” series about COVID facts and advice. Host a virtual local ‘town halls’ to let people know about new donation sites and safety precautions to take when getting there. . – Host virtual “office hours” where people can drop in to ask questions. HEALTH & DISASTER RESPONSE. Urgent issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

These would be an excellent tool for on-site documentation. . The most skill to teach novice users I think is shooting tips and how to moment capture or only shoot footage that requires minimal editing. Advice about using the FLIP camera: The Flip Spotlight site has a resource section with lots of tips for using the camera.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Bonus tip) Teach a lesson. If you’re inspired by Jones and Lasica’s advice and interested in honing your digital storytelling chops then stay tuned for TechSoup’s upcoming 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge. Having a clear beginning, middle, and end helps the viewer follow the narrative and message.

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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. After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. Can we get the full site for the twitter statistics? (Yes Yes check here ). look here ).

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

Peters, principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. In this case, students care far more about getting a day off school than a teaching conference. He then proceeded to give the class these facts: Kenneth L.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

So you want to teach yourself SEO? Search Engine Optimization is the practice of improving, and promoting a website in order to increase the number of visitors the site receives from search engines. Basically, it’s about ranking higher in the search engine results for keywords related to your site. Sounds simple right?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

I design, build and maintain all of our sites, TeamRaisers, donation forms, email campaigns and so on. If you really want to understand something, teach it to someone else. And the goals of the site were a little schizophrenic. Emily for CC: If you had advice to share for a new Convio admin, what would it be?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

I wondered, had I done enough, given the right advice, been a successful coach and mentor? Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Additionally, many of the graduates were selected for various awards and scholarships. Click here to access the full list of recipients.) Fear not, nonprofit professionals! All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. KD Paine has some excellent advice about how to shift through some of the listening data. Do search at site for the first time. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. (tags: listening socialmedia ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. Why bother having a web site at all? Your site, zenofnptech.org, is already on Quantcast.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 6, 2018

What is interesting about this experiment is that versions B and C sent significantly more traffic to the web site by generating a click-through rate 91% higher than the control (Version A). If I can leave you with one final piece of advice, it would be to take everything I’ve shared in this post with a grain of salt. Nobody does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

" asking readers to share their stories about how they got started in social media, first steps, and advice. I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc. But as more nonprofit arts organization hoisted their first web sites, they wanted how to information. You must go read the stories - they're wonderful.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

Here’s a list of 10 best practices you can follow when working on your site content. A good site gives users the information that they need quickly and efficiently. 6) Be Consistent: Use the same terminology and nomenclature throughout your site. Remember, content is still king. Reader Comments (12) Great list, Allyson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Wendy Harmon gives us a list of her favorite web sites. If you are in a position of teaching this skill to nonprofits, what do you show them? Katya Andresen has some great advice on building relationships on social networks. " Emily offers her thoughts here. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

They are socially responsible and environmentally responsible companies, but are in need of some additional assistance, mostly strategic advice, that helps them scale to the next level. I think where we get our competitive advantage is that the caliber of our advisors is far and above any kind of advice that you find out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Yikes, there are no rules.

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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. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

I've been experimenting with cambodia4kids.org blog to test out the instructions/advice I'm reading on various npotech sites about blogs. C4C will teach them basic photo techniques, pay for developing and enlargements, and hold exhibitions in Cambodia, the US and Paris (summer/fall 2006), and beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. The big question, what about that other 41% ?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

Great advice! Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you? Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

To equip you with knowledge and actionable advice, Ekin Sisli, Director of Systems Engineering at Flipcause, is sharing what all nonprofits need to know about cybersecurity. Only enter personal information on sites served over HTTPS. Teach your staff to stay safe online. Those are the first they will try.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. How did they do it?

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