Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. They serve the diverse needs of their audience with music, news, public affairs, and fine arts programming.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. In the case of the Stanford study, I was fascinated to learn that the content of the music video was significant in terms of signaling change in prejudice. But how will we know if we are actually achieving our goals?

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

” One answer to this critical question is: Evaluate the strength of your appeal copy. While the marketing and fundraising teams should work together towards a common goal, there are key differences in the language, voice, and content of their writing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

This allows our major gift officers to email or text relevant content to prospects without having to meet in person. Myth 3: Making the right ask is more art than science Even the most experienced fundraisers can stumble when it comes to figuring out the right ask amount. An ask too high and you might miss a gift entirely.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Content Strategy has been all the rage recently in the UX world and I was excited to see this topic make its way into the nonprofit space. So often, when we work with nonprofits to redesign their websites, content is an afterthought. See this great guest post on Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog. Sound familiar?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 3, 2019

So, you’ve mastered the art of creating effective, engaging social media content. Engagement is any interaction with your content, like Twitter favorites, Facebook shares and clicks. All it takes is a close look at a few main factors to evaluate your overall social media performance. Congratulations! Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I learned a lot in terms of the content but also as a facilitator. With social media, listening needs to incorporated into the research phase at the beginning but must also be used as the social media strategy unfolds (real time monitoring) and as ongoing evaluation. Aligning Social Media Strategy With Communications Strategy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

This allows our major gift officers to email or text relevant content to prospects without having to meet in-person. Myth 3: Making the Right Ask is More Art Than Science. All we have to do is evaluate their capacity to give, which only takes a few minutes with tools like iWave. You just have to look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Why Extreme Content Delivery Does Not Equal Learning. The Art of Good Closers. Evaluation. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 18, 2013

These are the questions that underpin Museum Camp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. This is the second year that the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) is hosting Museum Camp.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. By practicing the gentle art of fundraising. It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology. 3) Does it have diverse content relevant to visitors? (4) Philanthropically.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 4, 2016

All the websites we design are responsive, therefore our sites do not require unique mobile art to maximize the user experience. However, if your website is currently not responsive you may need to re-evaluate the art that is currently being used as it is likely to throw off your navigation. Time spent on site. Scrolling ratio.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, you might label a segment “Young Environmental Activists” or “High-Income Arts Patrons.” This may involve asking them to donate, volunteer, attend an event, or share your content on social media. Make it easy for them to take the desired action by providing direct links or instructions.

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Forj

JUNE 16, 2021

Attend this session and gain valuable skills needed to evaluate whether your strategy is successful. Learn key strategies that will make your content come to life and allow your members to solve real problems they face, versus simply delivering educational content in a way that’s not effective. More details here.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Internal evaluation Create clear guidelines for your project and try to rank the proposals across different attributes. Interviewing and deciding Choosing the right vendor is more art than science. Ability to manage the platform ( content management system ). Filter out the junk and only share the top proposals with the team.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 25, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Power Up Your Content: Mastering the Art of Compelling Storytelling Discover the secrets of storytelling that make your nonprofit stand out! Learn how to create powerful, heartwarming content that draws in your audience and inspires them to support your cause like never before.

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Forj

JUNE 15, 2021

For AVMA, Axon proved to be a lesson in digital transformation, simply because members learned the art of “nimbleness”, which describes how it’s essential to evaluate digital transformation with intelligence and quickness to guarantee a smooth process and to make each goal a reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. Our session was really about “train the trainer” which requires going beyond mere content delivery and do what I call “going meta.” The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Today, we want to introduce you to Leah Horn , Director of Marketing and Communications at the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). WESTAF''s mission is to strengthen the financial, organizational, and policy infrastructure of the arts in the West. What is your organization''s mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

One of the strongest roles companies can play in helping communities come back online after a disaster is by supporting them – through crisis communication training, scenario planning, facilities evaluation, and other critical resiliency efforts — before disaster strikes. Turn your employees into content creators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

Over the past five years, I have created many wikis to support online learning projects and wikispaces has been one of my platforms of choice because it is easy to use, free, and integrate other social media content. Examples include the Social Media Lab , Leveraging Social Media for Arts Organizations , and the Networked Funders.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Their content efforts are coordinated well in advance, and it shows. Don’t Discount the Power of Video Incorporating video content to enhance digital appeal is also a tool that cannot be understated. Set up a Monitoring and Evaluation System.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Sure, you can deliver a lot of a great content, but the real joy of being a trainer is seeing how your participants apply what they learned. Zen and the art of routine measurement. It gives us license to experiment, knowing we will have hard facts to evaluate the results. Have they been able to put the ideas into practice?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

At that point, I researching and organizing resources for artists on Arts Wire on how to use the web. When I find a blog by serependity or if referred to in another blog I'm reading, I'm now asking myself: Is the blog content of interest to me for my npo/ed tech work or Cambodia work or personal reasons? Oh, and my point was.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I've known Matthew Saunders, an arts tech colleague, for many years. He works for an arts agency and we've set on grant evaluation panels for arts and technology projects. What a widget will do is make it easier for that community to embed interesting rich content into sites. The arts are all about sharing content.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Check out his blog post on the Fractured Atlas site.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

I love Trevor Donnell's brilliant book and blog, Marketing the Arts to Death , in which he documents the disasters caused by our inability to be audience- and data-driven in our marketing efforts. Program staff invent guerrilla marketing techniques, run the photobooths and program evaluations, and send out the follow-up emails.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Report The Nonprofit Email Report Learn More Promotional Content This final category of nonprofit sector reports is the largest gray area you may encounter while evaluating the usefulness of given research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. What: The art of social instructional design. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Below we’ll explore four things to consider in nonprofit storytelling: The narrative structure The content The medium The donor experience Managing all of the moving pieces of your nonprofit can be tough; sharing your authentic story as a change-maker doesn’t have to be. Again, authenticity is key.

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