Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What prep did you do?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. How can you leverage your staff’s personal passions and interests in service of your organization’s mission using social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit where Allison Fine and I will talk about social media experimentation and other themes from the book. You have to be like Thomas Edison in approaching social media and experiment. The design for Social Media Peer Group Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Our dinner conversations still inevitably turn to social media in some way or another. The book offers lots of great advice on using many of Facebook features like Events. What are you some efficient techniques for monitoring responses on Facebook? There are lots of free (and paid) social media monitoring tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. Why the number 52? Good for you! Great work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

This week's theme is social media ROI. That's what I've been thinking, speaking, and writing about and have also recruited guest posts on this topic. As KD Paine, the queen of social media measurement says, yes we can measure social media and here's how. There is a learning piece that has to happen first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

How can create a back channel or other social media tools that can engage people in the room, but also around the world with an interest in the topic? A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question. There are many different techniques for brainstorming that can easily be adapted to a virtual meeting. A more fun way to do a meeting icebreaker or check-in, is to use breakout rooms.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. Make social media communications with customers personal, genuine, and meaningful. Measure the true cost of your customer acquisition efforts.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Direct your readers and followers on other outlets, like social media and email, to check out your new blog post and link them directly to it. Looking for even more advice on nonprofit digital fundraising and engagement? This blog was originally published in December of 2021 and has since been updated.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. There are several key techniques for dispersing information effectively. Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation. Be Out There.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2008

One of the best pieces of advice about how to learn good techniques for using social media comes from Chris Brogan. So what he is suggesting that you become a sort of Social Media Jane Goodall. Chris Brogan is Social Media guru who I follow. He wonders at the end of his post whether the ???a

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

The criticism was that Owyang's advice was not sophisticated enough. He makes this point: The integration of customer service into social media marketing programs is a logical imperative and usually will follow right on the heels of integrating corporate communications. , and by definition not quite ready for social media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Adding Conflict Resolution Points To Your Social Media Policy: This includes creating a flow chart for dealing with an online conflict situation. Adding Conflict Resolution Points To Your Social Media Policy: This includes creating a flow chart for dealing with an online conflict situation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. They will have good advice about ways to structure your nonprofit finances responsibly. Managing your donors, your volunteers, your taxes, your recruitment, your advertising, and your social media outreach will all be carried out digitally.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Social Media Post Ideas. The best campaigns—whether they’re crowdfunding, social media, matching gifts, or something else—will need your whole team to maximize your results. Watch this video to hear Woodrow Rosenbaum, Giving Tuesday’s Chief Data Officer, share advice for setting your goals for this year. [On

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you’re new to marketing your nonprofit online, these statistics will be great for thinking about what channels you want to experiment with and how they compare to print marketing techniques, too. . Book a free consultation with us today to explore your nonprofit’s options and get tailored advice. . How can Twenti help?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Davis Parchment, and data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson about the research results, implications, and advice for next steps. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2020

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. Make social media communications with customers personal, genuine, and meaningful. Measure the true cost of your customer acquisition efforts.

Exercise 52

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At it’s core, OPM brings together digital strategy, SEO techniques and social media marketing to provide an overarching approach to online presence. In today’s ever-evolving digital world, what customers say about your brand is amplified by countless social media platforms. Search Engine Optimisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. I also got a chance to spend some time with Thomas Taylor , the Alliance's nonprofit technology in-house guru and social media whiz who turned me to twitpic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For those of us who work on social media and networks, “content fried” is an occupational hazard. So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

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. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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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 I'm working a "rubric" of different types of social media projects, from the easiest lowest risk to the more complicated and resource intensive. t take much time and relates to org goals. Rinse, repeat.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

Plus, we've got some techniques we recommend that are useful for targeted searches. Get more out of Google by using its advanced search techniques. Its specialty is tech advice without the jargon. Search engines like Google and Bing will often be your first stop when you have a question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Geoff Livingston live blogged the Network Solutions Solutions Stars Video Conference -- by a team of Internet marketing and social media rock stars.    The advice is geared for small businesses, not nonprofits, but a lot of it relevant and translatable.   The Social Opportunity.   Why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

He has some terrific advice about how to apply visual thinking to your data visualization and to get insights. But first, he simplifies what visual thinking is: Look, See, Imagine, and Show. What is your techniques or process visualizing data? Look: What is out there? Draw a conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

That was the call for blog posts. I received a rich selection covering this topic – from changing mindsets, new tool sets, and lots of tips on how to manage your social media, email, and work flow. In a nutshell, the advice is to spend time on the important tasks first and practice good delegation skills.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At it’s core, OPM brings together digital strategy, SEO techniques and social media marketing to provide an overarching approach to online presence. In today’s ever-evolving digital world, what customers say about your brand is amplified by countless social media platforms. Search Engine Optimisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

I'm working on a brief presentation for next week at Graphing Social Patterns called " Giving Good Poke: Using Social Apps and Social Media for Social Causes." The real reason is that I keep implementing new campaigns, trying new techniques and tools, and new projects.

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