Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Year in Review.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

All that is true – but in the last two weeks, something else has become very clear: Many volunteer engagement professionals are struggling with grief and loss. While colleagues have mentioned this at various points since the beginning of the pandemic in spring 2020, something has really shifted recently according my recent conversations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

Though it’s startlingly articulate, AI doesn’t think, and it doesn’t know your nonprofit’s goals or supporters as well as you do. Prompt: “Please write 3 energetic tweets for this article by the Eventgroove brand for an audience of nonprofit professionals and individuals hosting fundraisers.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This means you’ve got (1) a constituency who cares about your mission, vision and values; (2) a relevant case for support with clearly articulated needs and goals; (3) commitment from all stakeholders; (4) a communications mechanism, and (5) processes in place to steward your resources. Human Resources. Dynamic Functions.

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Yet, too often, we continue to hear about engagement professionals on furlough, others strategizing how to defend their department budget, or – worse yet – many others having been laid off. How many clients are they reaching, even if virtually? Clearly, our need to advocate for volunteer engagement is more vital than ever.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. During his research, Ng identified the most universal problems early-career professionals face. Establish presence in virtual meetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. During his research, Ng identified the most universal problems early-career professionals face. Establish presence in virtual meetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. During his research, Ng identified the most universal problems early-career professionals face. Establish presence in virtual meetings.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

I suspect my experience is not unique to lawyers, and can be extrapolated to other professional service industries. Accountants, marketers, and consultants across industries focus on relationships, not pure transactions, to build fruitful professional relationships. Demonstrate (and articulate!)

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This means that volunteers can help you find new donors (and other volunteers) as they spread the word about your work to their family, friends, and professional connections. Your volunteers should be able to clearly articulate what your organization stands for and what makes it worth volunteering for. However, some people do.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday is a great time to encourage your donors, staff, volunteers, and even board members to reach out to their own networks of friends, family, and professional connections. A reliable auction platform also makes it easy to pivot this experience to the virtual space! Each social media platform has a different focus.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

The good news is, you’re a fundraising professional and if anyone can pull it off, it’s you! You can still do this for fully virtual experiences or virtual elements of your in-person event to ensure all attendees have a smooth digital experience. Do your best to articulate the “why” and “how” to any concerned individuals.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Often when a person struggles to put something into words, it means the issue is very important to them and they want to articulate it in an accurate way. Most professional fundraisers who work with major donors have dozens of questions in their repertoire that they can use as needed. That’s a lot of questions! But not all.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

Consider too that it’s not easy to articulate this value for those who are in it.you just do it, because you’re awesome at it. Whether or not virtual museum tours are as “cool” as baking bread at home this week. A helpful thing to do: Submit proposals to virtual conferences (like MCN!) , even in the midst of uncertainty.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As you can see, email marketing is a powerful tool for nonprofit professionals and fundraisers alike. An articulated reason for why you’re holding the event. So, regardless of the specific call-to-action, you include, it needs to be clearly articulated and eye-catching. The specific fundraising goal you’re trying to achieve.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2016

The idea of developing a strong company culture and increasing employee engagement efforts to attract and retain top talent is nothing new to HR professionals. There are some simple steps for HR professionals looking to jump start or up the level of their corporate philanthropic and engagement efforts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2015

I was thrilled to attend the Peer to Peer Professional Forum to swap stories and strategies with some of the finest minds in fundraising and P2P. The conference organizers stepped up their social media game in a big way this year, allowing attendees to virtually attend multiple breakouts at once. This week I’ll share five more!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Is that when fundraising expectations are clearly articulated during recruitment 52% of CEOs report that their boards are actively engaged in an organization’s fundraising efforts. They can help with follow-up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Blogging as personal discovery and connected conversation with colleagues Writing a blog regularly provides a vehicle for personal reflection and learning about your practice that can be easily shared with professional colleagues via a connected conversation. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Come on, get real already.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

What's the biggest mistake people make when involving non-professionals in exhibition design? They want articulated goals and expectations. Earlier this year, I encountered a similar confusion while working with creative amateurs in virtual concept design of real-world interactives for The Tech Virtual Test Zone.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Course authoring software platforms empower learning professionals, often alongside content development experts, to author, design, and assemble eLearning courses for learners. Create virtual reality-based courses, including walk-throughs, virtual tours, and immersive scenarios. Articulate 360. Absorb Create.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, Danny McCall beautifully articulates the challenge of defining this dyad in his whitepaper, The Durable Relationship : Although “relationship” is a commonly used word, having an actionable comprehension of a relationship’s dimensions and forces isn’t a trivial matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. Last year, Alan invited me to keynote the New Media Consortium ’s virtual conference to talk about the future of social and nonprofits. Last year, Alan invited [.].

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Understand the professional backgrounds of your donors to better align your messaging. Provide virtual tours or detailed maps that allow potential bidders to explore the space where the auction will be held. Occupation. Interactive maps of the auction venue. Infographics explaining the auction process.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Y’all don’t know this about Steve, but he has backed every harebrained scheme I’ve ever had since day one and continues to encourage me as a professional and thereby encouraging all of the communities that I influence as professionals in our sector to just show up and be ourselves and do the darn thing and do the best work we can.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2020

In my conversations with development professionals around the country, the policies and practices are as varied as the communities that they serve. Listen to The sgENGAGE Podcast 142: Tips for Virtual Volunteer Programs . I’ll say this first: there is no blanket “right” or “wrong” policy. GRATITUDE .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

As young professionals who have served both as members and staff managers of these groups, Sarah Willey and Corinne Austin will lead you through the research on Next Gen supporters, challenges to anticipate, and steps your organization can take to start a new young friends board from scratch OR to maximize the potential of your existing group.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

There are three key questions museum decision-makers should ask themselves in evaluating the value of virtual visitors: How much do we value outreach in our educational programming and content delivery? You should be able to articulate your goal, whether it is reaching a particular niche audience or a designated level of participation.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

There’s less personal contact, more virtual communication, and there are consequences for this. The question here is, how often do you actually meet with donors in person or perhaps virtually on Zoom for any reason? But essentially. And generally speaking, the donor appreciation engagement is not great. Next slide. .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And if you can’t articulate that, if you can’t really speak to that, then maybe you’re not bringing much value for them and maybe your retention rates are not going to be great. Maybe you need to get some professional photography to tell that story. What value are they getting from being a supporter and an advocate?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language. Dedicated virtual event page. Mission page. Meet the Residents page. Simplified design. Large photo headers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The goal, from IMLS’s standpoint, is for NAS to create a report that can address the fundamental issues facing museums and libraries in the 21st century, with an intended audience of industry professionals, trustees, funding sources, and government representatives. How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries?

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