Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She gave a brilliant presentation that shared the story of footing binding in China and how using a networked approach and network weaving techniques, they were able to change the practice in a decade. . She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. So, decided to write this post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Jeremiah Owyang has shared his initial analysis of Pepsi's Contest, summarizing the opportunity, risks, strengths, weaknesses, metrics, and impact. Additioanily, they've gotten celebrities like Twitter-god Aplusk. Weaknesses: Yet Pepsi may have a few areas of opportunity that may hinder success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

There are many approaches and visual analysis tools. Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. E-Mediat Twitter Network.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Sage Nonprofit Solutions I've been asked to present a session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference on "Technical Management Techniques for Managers". Promise that a root cause analysis will be delivered to all interested parties after crisis resolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

.  In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study.    My main point is that you just think of ROI as math , then you're missing the a lot of the value of doing an ROI analysis. Why Twitter Matters View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: microblog analytics ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Click to see the larger image. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. The network on Twitter responded: If you’re overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. The only valid data is quantitative data. Do numbers only matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. They can follow up with questions on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This technique is ideal for those faced with such a task for the first time and not knowing where to start and how to set goals. For example, Instagram requires a visual trigger, while Twitter implies short but informative text messages. Make your marketing plan analysis your weekly habit. Also, you can use a SMART methodology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. 2) Egg Timer: Track your time because working on social media can give you ADOLA S (AD - oh look a squirrel!) This started a twitter hashtag #squirrel. You can see the full slide deck here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. 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

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The 30 participating organizations in the report are members of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a group of independent, nonprofits with a shared commitment to responsible budget and tax policies. Over half of the organizations surveyed reported that they do not use Twitter and do not intend to, with only 24% reporting use of the tool.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the the conversation is about the application deadline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

“see xx more posts by Twitter&# ) and I’m certain people don’t really click that link. John Haydon did a pattern analysis of different Facebook Wall posts that were questions “ 16 Ways To Get More Comments on Facebook “ that illustrate different examples of questions. Mari Smith also has a post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

There are many techniques to analyze or visualize our professional networks and I’ve identified a methods in this post that include analyzing your contacts via social media. List them and do an analysis based on: Age. Once you’ve done this analysis, you can determine which connections to back away from. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

” Read her analysis. Last week Kivi wrote about “ newsjacking ” the technique of piggy backing on a crisis to get more media attention. Again, literally minutes later, I started to see mentions on Facebook and Twitter. Let me go a little meta here. And it worked! I published around 11:30 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven. Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream. Wait for maturation? What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Ag Grantees Twitter Webinar. For this webinar, I incorporate some instant polls so we could get a quick reading on who was on the call. In addition, I wanted to explore TwitChimp, a tool for making Twitter lists, that Robin Good dubbed, “ the ultimate Twitter list curation tool.” Most Frequently Tweeted Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Stop twittering from your cell phone in the bathroom and use that time to think about how you could be more efficient using a particular social media tool. Use Time Management Techniques. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. Or be bailout for our nonprofit. But will the dramatic text fundraising that we saw the Red Cross experience translate to every non-profit that wants to add it to their tool bag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Where can network weaving techniques help you unleash the abundance that networks offer. 3. Where are the gaps?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. This runs counter to short-form trends on TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube that occupy our attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls. A previously recorded video was presented and I participated in the backchannel Twitter stream while Allison delivered the keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others. My Fan Page objective is: . Right now it is limited to three different ways to analyze your Fan Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” Once we’ve hooked them, we engage with our community until they own the idea and run with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

So, when Mary K Winkler , one of the nonprofit data nerds I follow on Twitter and Senior Research Associate at Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy specializing in performance management told me via Twitter she had just published a new guide on this topic, I had to check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Then I started to get emails from respected colleagues and a few hours later I saw references all over my friends Facebook newsfeeds and on Twitter. There is more analysis of the problems over simplification like this cogent analysis from Ethan Zuckerman. The storytelling was engaging and compelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

You can do a whole network analysis which looks at organizations and people in specific geographic or social change area. If you find Twitter or LinkedIn boring, perhaps you are following wrong people. It is time to tune your network and add new connections by exploring the edges. Diversity correlates with innovation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively. She mentioned how useful Twitter is for connecting and following peers to get ideas to evolve pilots for social media initiatives. The full group discussion allowed people at different levels to share their experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2015

She used a technique called text analysis to count the number of “thanking” words (thank, thx, thnx, tks) in the messages. With further analysis, Crisis Text Line may be able to not only predict who is likely to be a repeat texter, but also to make automated suggestions to counselors on what to do about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Stop twittering from your cell phone in the bathroom and use that time to think about how you could be more efficient using a particular social media tool. Use Time Management Techniques. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

We engage in multiple social networks, some that you probably also use: Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , YouTube , Flickr , Slideshare , our own blog , and a few other networks. I can also see the volume of the conversation about my brand, like mentions in Twitter, references in blogs, etc. So Many Social Networks, So Little Time.

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