Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

I'm excited to finally meet Michaela face-to-face after following her personal blog and flickr stream over three years. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. Once that is clear almost always they are on board.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building local chapters. They shared updates on the tour blog , Flickr , and YouTube. When the inevitable happens and you have to adjust your plan, try to learn something from the experience, have a good attitude, and move on. Strengthening your connection to grassroots supporters. Creating meaningful volunteer opportunities.

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Advocacy Community Build Storytelling 72

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

If you’d like to explore developing a robust gratitude program in more detail, get your free downloadable ‘Show the Love’ e-book from npENGAGE — with chapters from 14 nonprofit experts (me included) — on the subject of donor retention. Photo cred: Flickr.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? I wrote a chapter in The Participatory Museum about it, but I continue to seek out really good examples of participatory project evaluation. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In the book, this section (taken from Chapter 2 ) is twice the length seen below. The best social media practitioners express their personalities with a dash of attitude and a bit of flair, and are comfortable articulating their opinions online. However, do to word count constraints the content below is not in its full entirety.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? I wrote a chapter in The Participatory Museum about it, but I continue to seek out really good examples of participatory project evaluation. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2014

But this “not-on-the-first-date” attitude actually kills relationships. When we impose the arbitrary 2-step approach that this attitude necessitates, we are acting like the relationship is about us, not about the donor. Check out his chapter in the new npExperts eBook! photo cred: Flickr . We’re the new people, not them.

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