Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

What you're seeing above is a visualization of sharing intensity - this was the slide I took out of my presentation for the Bridge Conference Presentation earlier this week. How an online video site records a view for their online videos varies greatly from site to site. time on site.??? Total Minutes???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Or you could use them to divide the room.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts. As the site continues to grow in popularity and functionality, that amount could easily increase.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

Today’s article dives into a vital topic for nonprofits – letting your supporters know how much they’ve impacted your cause and how much you appreciate them. A site page dedicated to recognizing donors. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you use your website to publish news stories or press releases, make sure that the titles of the press releases and articles include words and phrases that people who may be interested in your mission and programs are likely to type into Google, Bing, or Yahoo! Articles and information pages that are text-only tend to overwhelm visitors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The site, which serves as a learning and sharing center for nonprofits and social change organizations, debuted today at [link]. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as GlobalGiving and Facebook Causes. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

SlideShare is a site to host and share presentations. You can upload all your slide decks, and find download interesting presentations. where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

As part of the planning, it might be a good idea to have the slides so participants can organize their thoughts and prepare, but then transform it into an conversation by ditching the slides for the actual webinar. There are different formats that you can use to make it more interactive: panel discussion, or interview experts.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In this article, we highlight the ten best tech industry virtual events and draw insight from their success. Their live online event was hidden behind a paywall, but now all video sessions and downloadable slides are available for free after filling out registration for their Pulse Everywhere content, creating long-term engagement. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Neylon’s answer was one of the links in Brian Kelly’s article on Quora. Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. Create a dedicated page within your site to those opportunities, and include a clear button to it within your main menu or as a call-to-action on other pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. The rest of the slide show talks about four models for popularity. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. Viral sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? I wrote the second article called, " Determining Your Social Networking Needs."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

This article will break down what Simulive is, why you need it, and how to use it for your next virtual event! That way, those viewers who tuned in a little later can still view the recorded presentation, PowerPoint slides, and any additional resources by accessing an event backlog. If you’ve never heard of Simulive, don’t fret.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. 2005 ) I had (wrongly) assumed that getting to the top of social news sites was a matter of dumb luck or that if something went viral.

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

A lurker will never post to your blog or add content to a wiki-site but she will digest your content and possibly pass it along so acknowledging reading and logging-in can make super-users out of an often unappreciated contingent of your member community. This article was originally published at: [link].

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In this article, we highlight the ten best tech industry virtual events and draw insight from their success. Their live online event was hidden behind a paywall, but now all video sessions and downloadable slides are available for free after filling out registration for their Pulse Everywhere content, creating long-term engagement. .

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

I clicked a link to an article on Upworthy , a viral news site always on the forefront of testing stickiness and psychological hooks. Eventually I decided to have a small, unobtrusive box slide out from the page’s lower corner a few seconds after the it loaded, and make a similar appeal. And it should happen more often.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. You can grab the slides and read her notes and commentary on her blog post.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 17, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

JANUARY 3, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? ROI: Very few nonprofit survey respondents are generating real revenue on commercial social networks like Facebook or branded social networks on their web sites.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

All Staff on Twitter In Support of the Organization’s Communications Strategy : Human Rights Watch has all staff using Twitter as their personal brands to share content from the site and build their networks in support of the overall goals. You will want to determine the best way to deliver training. Share it in the comments.

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Forum One

MAY 15, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Another part of the survey asked about specific social media tools/sites folks were using: Twitter seemed to top all charts, when it comes to most used, most time invested, and most questions regarding how to use it. (I NTEN Blog article: The Three Dimensions of Social Media ROI. I thought that was amusing.).

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If we’re already planning an on-site visit with the organization, doing an in-person card sort makes perfect sense. There are all sorts of articles online about choosing the right cards for the card sort test. So you wouldn’t want one card to be “News” and another to be “News Article about XYZ”. Methodology. In-Person or Remote?

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

This article will break down what Simulive is, why you need it, and how to use it for your next virtual event! That way, those viewers who tuned in a little later can still view the recorded presentation, PowerPoint slides, and any additional resources by accessing an event backlog. If you’ve never heard of Simulive, don’t fret.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

The article takes the points in made in the Cluetrain Manifesto and relates them to presentations. It's a long article, but this quote resonated: You can learn a lot from presentation coaches and communication books, but this is not rocket science. His personal web site has some good tips on creating , delivering , and slide design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. " and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. If you missed it, some good articles here and here. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Do you find Web2.0

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Forum One

APRIL 4, 2006

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Forum One

APRIL 4, 2006

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

That's my all time favorite slide from a powerpoint deck called " Sowing the seeds of enterprise2.0 I was reminded of that slide today when I read Read/WriteWeb's piece Fear of Web 2.0 I'm thinking of the KM4Dev Journal where I was a guest editor and the article " A stealth transformation: introducing wikis to the UN."

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