Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". Here are some good examples of CEO and Executive Director use of social media in the US social sector: Holly Ross is the executive director of NTEN, the nonprofit technology network in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Deanna asked a great question in response, “How do we move from abundance to being relevant? I think this is one of the most important questions to ask and consider right now. Farra Trompeter, Big Duck. [Ed. You can read all the details here. ].

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Hightlights from a short talk with Paul Schmitz, Public Allies Everyone Leads A Leadership Story outlines the many players in the Montgomery bus boycott, which begs the question, who was the leader of the boycott? Eventually wound up in microfinance with FINCA for 6 months, which blended her passion and talents.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Having internal staff who can make some changes quickly certainly comes in handy when unexpected needs pop up - one argument for having a blended model. There are many different types of “blended models” of in-house/outhouse support. A great way to find out what other organizations do is to join NTEN’s Drupal community of practice.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. The community manager has been around longer than you may think – and I'm not trying to be like Malcolm Gladwell by drawing (questionable) parallels to pre-Internet practices. To tackle these questions, I interviewed experts in both nonprofit communications and online organizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Take a look at the NTEN Crowd Funding Campaign to raise money for scholarships to its annual conference. How do you define failure for our organization or program?

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