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

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Geoff Livingston. Guest Post by Frank Barry: Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon. Social Media for Nonprofits Ignite! Social Media: Paint by the Numbers with Holly Ross of NTEN. About the Author. Here’s a few of the videos focused on using the social web for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. Note from Beth: Social media is not a waste a time, but there are ways to waste your time. If you know of other tools (or tips) that make you more efficient managing content, engagement, and tracking on social media, please share them in the comments.

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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. There are some emerging companies working their way toward tracking this third dimension of social media ROI. P.S. - Check out these really cool 3D photos from Zadro on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Joe runs through some great responses from a whole bevy of social-media-for-change folks, including me.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Nonprofit guru Amy Sample Ward just co-authored a new book called Social By Social , which serves as a great “how to&# guide on how to use technologies to create social impact. Furthermore, Social By Social document pioneers like Simon Berry who used new media to successfully lobby the Coca Cola Corporation to support African aid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

I've been reflecting on the ideas shared at a panel called " Why Corporate Social Media Marketing Fails and How To Fix It " presented at the Web2.0 The discussion was organized around four points of social media failure: How can I get my culture to adapt? Does social media even matter? Flickr Photo by MR+G. THE TOWER. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2018 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman in 2016. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. There’s an excellent summary by the study’s authors in this post, “ Preparing Millennials for Leadership Success ,” the tips include: 1. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

One of my key themes for the year is to look at failure and learning – and will also have a chance to dive into a conversation at the upcoming COF Conference with colleague Peter Sims , Author of Little Bets and founder of BLKSHP. His book has a great summary of the research out there on what is failure. Now you are ready to learn!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. Neff is author of The Future of Nonprofits: Innovate and Thrive, The creator of the npo Lights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

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? Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Absolutely brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee I declared that resilience was one of my themes for the new year. And, in writing a guest post about it over at the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effective Blog, I shared the story of the boiling frog. … Read More Resilience as a concept is not new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

A new American Red Cross survey shows many web users would turn to social media to seek help for themselves or others during emergencies—and they expect first responders to be listening. The online survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. Project management and success - Cliff Figallo has done a ton of stuff for some great companies including Cisco, the WELL, Electric Minds (Howard Rheingold), Social Media Today, AOL/GNN and Salon. He authored The Virtual Community and was an original founder of the WELL.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Flickr Photo by Brittany Bush. If you want to learn more about self-care, my co-author, Aliza Sherman and I will be presenting several free Webinars and Twitter chats in the next few weeks. My co-author, Aliza Sherman and will answer questions and offer up tips. Year-end giving campaigns.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Last night, I had the great opportunity to interview Clay Shirky , the author of Here Comes Everybody. The first thing I asked about was his view of the new role of nonprofit organizations in the social media or technology revolution that is well underway. It is also my contribution to the Net2 Think Tank (details below).

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2011

As Facebook reaches 600 million users in January 2011, social media continues to attract attention from nonprofits internationally. Are you new or seasoned at social media marketing? Even for social media gurus, the area is constantly changing. Read Mashable.com and other social media news outlets. Do your homework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr. federal appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission has no statutory authority to regulate the Internet. Vince Stehle is a philanthropic consultant and a member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Among the scholars Notre Dame invited to speak to us was Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (author of the book ???The He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques.   You can learn some valuable techniques about social media engagement AND be inspired about his effort.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

But if your nonprofit values its intellectual property, use secondary services such as a privately hosted blog, a video site or a photo site like Flickr with strong intellectual property protection. Then publish on the social networks by linking back to the content, increasing your chances of protecting copyright.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. Note from Beth: Last week I published an interview with Lean Start Up author, Eric Ries, that talked about how the lean start up ideas apply to the nonprofit sector. Networks have been valuable to the social change sector because of the potential for collective impact rather than individual impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Daily coordination with volunteers could be done through social media to bolster membership in the online communities and encourage interactions. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. See the range of creative expression in the flickr group. If I remember correctly, it was Robert Scoble who did it first and others took his cue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Flickr , Robert F. Whitlock This post originally ran on Mashable , and is co-authored by Qui Diaz , Beth Kanter and Geoff Livingston Do you believe in social causes? Now that social media has become increasingly dominant. If so, then we’d like your help filling out a survey. and the old 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

Photo in Flickr. I finally got a chance to meet Manny Hernandez, author written the " Ning for Dummies Book." He is founder of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non profit that operates two niche social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes (in English, with close to 8,200 members) and EsTuDiabetes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. However, most of the donors were definitely social media contacts with whom I have had more in-depth conversations.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2010

Flickr photo: KayCey97007 I find it highly ironic that so much energy has been spent debating slacktivism. The debate has hit the mainstream media. I was tickled to see Nancy Lublin -- author of " Zilch ", and a person with whom I would really like to have a cocktail -- take up the topic in Fast Company last month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. We can easily fall into the use of shorthand or brand names to describe it: it is “social media” or the internet or Twitter or Facebook. “The consumer Internet,” the author wrote, “can be seen as the warm-up act for these technologies.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Flickr Photo by Dogs New Cloths. Allison Fine, who authored " Social Citizens" , a paper recently released by The Case Foundation on the intersection of Millennials, social change and social media, wonders whether it time for nonprofit leaders to extol the virtue of government service?

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

Yes, in print: The few authors who have experimented with giving away digital copies (mostly in sci-fi) have found that they end up selling more print copies, because their books are discovered by more people. with social media tie-ins woven in, such as for FaceBook (looking for ideas on how best to do thi?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. You don’t necessarily have to do this with an online fundraising platform: you can start by using social media to encourage people to interact with and be vocal about your cause. Then tell these stories in multiple mediums: on your website, on your blog and in your social media channels, for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Here's the official bio: Charlene Li is an independent thought leader on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. Flickr: On flickr, I pretty much friend people who request it. Is A Social Media Friend Really A Friend? Social Media Etiquette by Chris Brogan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by AnEye4Pictures. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. Agus, author of “ The Lucky Years ” recently wrote in an editorial in the WSJ about the need for organizations to hire “Chief Health Officer.” ” He says health, happiness, and productivity at work are related outcomes and organizations need to support all three.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Creative Commons Search is another search engine that searches multiple sites simultaneously, including Flickr, Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , and several more. Flickr is one of our go-to places for Creative Commons- licensed images. You can search by topic, location, type, author, license, and source.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. Curated by library staff and educators, the app lets users search by title, author, genre, or list. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ).

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