Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) The America's Giving Challenge ended on January 31, 2008 and the idea of using social media and social networking tools has taken off.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Oxfam America. Oxfam America envisions a world without poverty. From establishing emergency response programs in the most vulnerable communities to promoting eco-friendly farming techniques in the face of climate change, Concern Worldwide continues to build sustainable solutions where they are most needed. Human Rights Watch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

You can use basic storytelling techniques to create compelling videos that use humor, cliffhangers, excitement or drama to capture attention. Now in its fourth edition, this year’s report provides technology benchmarks for Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions. What’s the problem?

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2019

In honor of the first anniversary of the Parkland shooting, Care2 recently launched a month-long integrated advocacy campaign to “#EndGunViolence” once and for all in America. The outcomes of the campaign surpassed expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! My America's Giving Challenge Dairy. Day 1: We're Entering the America's Giving Challenge. America's Giving Campaign: Bloggers Roundup - Thank You. Special thanks to Michele Martin!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Flickr Photo by Chi King The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on how to draft America's national broadband plan. The FCC should also require disclosure of providers’ network management techniques as well as specific information about the quality of the service being purchased. billion for broadband stimulus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. The use of personal brand on social media was a concept that we needed to adapt for Latin America.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

GivingTuesday may have its roots in America, but it’s a global phenomenon. A vast majority of nonprofits reported experimenting with new techniques last year, which could be anything from new tech tools to a novel strategy for reaching new supporters. The possibilities are endless! Takeaway: Try something new!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

.” In Steve Rubel’s Ad Age post, ” The Revolution Won’t Be Televised; It Will Be Instagrammed ” points out some underlying trends that might make some of the hype less hype: Smartphone use has become pervasive, siting recent research reports from Pew Internet for America Life research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It I’ve trained myself with the 18 minutes technique to avoid temptation of looking at friends’ dog photos that way while I am working.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Code for America , one of the organizations that we worked with, is already implementing outcome assessments. Code for America tracks their impact on open governance ecosystems by monitoring a range of results, including the number of apps created by fellows that are sustained by municipal administrations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

." AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. This is the latest in the series. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement.

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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. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Games are even more engaging.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

this is one of the best fundraising techniques to use. Amigos de las Americas uses peer-to-peer fundraising, a type of community-driven fundraising, to engage their supporters. In fact, whether your nonprofit is in need of a quick financial boost or you want to engage your supporters in a prompt yet effective way (or both!),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

In addition, the “Games for Change Around the World” panel will discuss the efforts of the three current Games for Change international branches in Latin America, Europe, and Korea.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Instead of ensuring the success of a country, our focus is strictly on programs and the utilization of proven techniques. “I’m with her” and “Make America Great Again” social media badges have been highly visible and effective marketing efforts for both candidates.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. Baseball and your Learning Organization.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Join in the 2nd Annual Integrated Marketing Virtual Conference and learn how to enhance and optimize your cross-channel fundraising and marketing programs, and gain valuable insight from experts in the field on new trends and smart integration techniques. Wondering how nonprofits did with 2014 fundraising? A lot, as it turns out.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Recently, See3 partnered with Make-A-Wish Foundation of America to help the organization better understand its audiences and develop an organization-wide content strategy. “They’re a fairly proven technique, and I think if you’re going to compete for donors in today’s environment, they’re a necessary competitive advantage.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America - who organized the campaign and will be speaking about at NTC - shared the URL of the YouTube video. Britt Bravo who is also the Flickr Affinity Group wrote about Oxfam America Campaign here. What creative twist could your organization do with this technique and support your cause/work?

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

How do you see social networks reshaping traditional donor research or fundraising techniques? We don’t know whether America’s nonprofits asked less often and for less money over the last three years, but some anecdotal evidence suggests they did. Completely! Obviously, we will raise less.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Then in Australia: "this might work in America, but it will never work in Australia." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas."

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

Now, there is extensive literature on effective networking techniques that are tested and true (I implore you to Google “effective networking”; it’s exhausting). Additionally, he sits on the boards of the Welcome to America Project, KEEN Phoenix, Phoenix Collegiate Academy and is a partner of Social Venture Partners.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Hobbies or groups, charitable organizations, so that’s what the rest of America is saying. Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. This is how might we see these techniques activated? Perhaps you’re offering empathy.

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.orgSource

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 20, 2010

He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience. I cover a couple techniques and tools using participants as an example to illustrate that keywords are king.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 6, 2008

From the iLoveMountains.org web site: "Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques. The 4-minute video above is the story of Daymon Morgan who lives on one of America's Most Endangered Mountains, the Huckleberry Ridge in Kentucky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We even localized and mixed up our energizers and icebreakers.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State's obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America's waistline has ballooned in since 1987.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

" So, I have been immersed in boiling down 50 days of socially-networked fundraising strategies and stories into a succinct and engaging presentation about the America's Giving Challenge. The real reason is that I keep implementing new campaigns, trying new techniques and tools, and new projects. and use the same slides?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We were luck to have Donna Norton from Momsrising share a presentation about their approach to integrated social media campaigns and success stories using a planning technique called “Layer Cake Strategy.” View more presentations from Beth Kanter. ” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

What's noted: "Adapted patterns are also cross-cutting techniques for increasing engagement and revenue." You are invitation your friends.but cause invitation (at least in the America's Giving Challenge) comes with a request for a specific action - donate!

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