BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Not all social media channels are created equal. Read on for more about what every board member needs to know about social media. 3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media. Not a board meeting goes by where one of my board members doesn’t tell me about some cool new social media tool they are using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. By Sacha Evans.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Josie Halpern-Finnerty, Adviser and Michelle Samplin-Salgado, New Media Strategist, AIDS.gov. At AIDS.gov , our mission is to provide access to Federal HIV and AIDS information through a variety of new media channels, and to support the use of new media tools by Federal and community partners. Be timely and relevant.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

What : An important part of your social media strategy should be listening for people and organizations who are talking about the issues you want to discuss.How do you know which networks will be most effective to reach your goals? Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno. Does that mean your social media is international? The significance of social media around the globe is the ability to build relationships with your fans and followers. Here are some tips: Know your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Beth Kanter. This week, the post that got the most conversation was a playful and visual one. Using the photo above, I asked people to share their best social media advice as a fortune in a fortune cookie. Using the photo above, I asked people to share their best social media advice as a fortune in a fortune cookie.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Julia Campbell is social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. Pinterest often gets lost in the all the breathless media coverage of Instagram and Facebook, but it’s still a marketing powerhouse to be reckoned with. By Julia Campbell .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. Where do you start?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Flickr Photo by elycelfeliz. The ingredients of successful social media strategy are to learn from mistakes and Networked Nonprofits have cultures that allow this happen. I finally had the right audience to share the c-word on Twitter mistake story that I had read about over the summer thanks to Wendy Harman. Mistakes happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In December, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 8,000 nonprofit folks have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. My LinkedIn Network Map – a set on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. By: Rebecca Shore.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Social media is talked about so much that you probably think every other form of communication is dead (Ok, maybe your thinking isn’t that extreme). Join Our Newsletter is displayed first, followed by links to social media accounts on the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum website. Include Links to Your Social Media Accounts.

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2010

Flickr Photo: Luc Legay Fabulous NTEN board member Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention released some very interesting research today. Of particular interest to us is that 70% of respondents indicated they aren't targeting content to their audiences appropriately. Apparently, 8 of 10 nonprofits think their messaging fails to hit home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has discovered what social media folks who work for zoos, aquariums, and animal welfare organizations already know. Time to Update The Cute Dog Theory of Social Media: Cute Animal Theory. I even did a series of interviews of nonprofit social media professionals and their dogs and its all available on a fun wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. I was in a random hotel ballroom in Denver, ready to present on the importance of social media to over 60 social media managers from LGBT choirs around the world. The critical path quickly became clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Click Through to Flickr for Attributions. Putting the Networked Nonprofit ideas into practice and using social media and other emerging technologies will only be success if nonprofits take small, incremental and strategic steps. In this model, there are four different levels of social media practice: Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Who is the audience? I had used the commentors flickr photo - "CC BY license" and he stopped to say thanks. Needing a distraction, I checked out his flickr profile and noticed a Flickr Score and link to the Flickr Inspector. And the Flickr Inspector also gives you a meaningless score too.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Flickr photo by Sarah and Mike.probably Decisions are tough. That's usually where social media decisions fall. That's usually where social media decisions fall. Decisions in social media have their own unique challenges, what with the barrage of options available -- and with new ones emerging daily. But should they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. One of the key principles for an effective social media strategy is experimentation, learning, and rapid prototyping. Being iterative or rapid pro-typing is the secret to getting tangible results from your social media efforts over time, yet many organizations find it difficult to do. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis. You need to make social media a daily habit; understand the rules, the landscape, and above all give it time to work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. engage audiences can be overwhelming to nonprofit and library. organizations. professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. When colleague Dan Cohen told me of his recent experience using guided imagery in a social media workshop, I thought it was definitely valuable to share with others. Seeing Social Media Success Before It Happens by Dan Cohen. A powerful lesson hit home during a recent two-day training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation for the Packard Foundation board of directors to provide a brief report on how I spent my time as Visiting Scholar and share some insights about social media and the nonprofit sector. engagejoe social media helps us connect so we can come together in the real world. packfound .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

So I thought I’d answer that question here and as an upcoming guest post on Beth Kanter’s blog , since she’s likely given you many good ideas of how to use social media – and you’ve likely run into internal roadblocks on the road to Web 2.0. . Make it about the audience: A good way to depersonalize the web 2.0 That day is already here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Channels such as social media can really help with this. Think about goals and audience: Before you create content, first think about the ultimate goal and the target audience. Let that inform your decisions on what channel(s) to use to reach your audience. Here''s what they said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Worse is the impact of siloed organizations on nonprofit audiences – cuz really, how many emails can you get from the same organization before you go a little nuts? Bringing in those diverse voices means we can tell more stories and invite in new audiences.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

I'm working remotely on an unreliable and slow wifi connection and Flickr has been getting a massage (down for maintenance) for most of the afternoon. It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. See Social Media Is A Waste of Time, Part 1 and Part 2. (

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Flickr photo by Amber Rhea. This week we'll be discussing and building Module 3: The Social Media Ready Nonprofit Organization: Dealing with Resistance as part of NTEN's We Are Media : Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits project. What are some of the common misconceptions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? So, how can you quantify - as close as possible - the amount of time it takes to put social media in practice with good results? Download it here. In A Museum?

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: zadro. Beth Kanter and NTEN have spent almost a whole year working on the We Are Media project, and we've learned a few important things. Are they sharing your video with your target audience? . There are some emerging companies working their way toward tracking this third dimension of social media ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Even though we can assume every org has a range of target audiences, members have to be a priority for every arts and culture organization. Here's what I recommend to the center: List out the three or fewer target audiences you need to engage more effectively in order to meet the center's current goals.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2014

During the Storymakers one month challenge, TechSoup hosts a series of educational webinars and interactive events meant to highlight content and tools to help social good organizations produce a one minute video, a short form Vine or Instagram video, or a five picture Flickr slideshow with some fabulous cash prizes up for grabs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This afternoon we played the Social Media Game. While it is one the spot translation (and it was fabulous), you have to gauge what the delay is vis a vis the audience reaction. Given that we were talking about technology/social media, and the translators were not techies - I had to fill in some of the content. I hate that.

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