Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

4) Get To Know Your Audience: We don’t always have the ability to do in-depth participant surveys or interviews prior to a training to understand in great detail what participants know and feel about the topic. A good opener will also help you as the trainer to better understand the people in the room and adjust accordingly.

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MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Interview Experts. A 10-question blog interview with an expert in an area related to your nonprofit’s mission and programs can be interesting to your supporters. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

My friend and engaging community leader for all those looking to have fun while improving the world, Britt Bravo, is doing a little experiment and asking a handful of bloggers to write short guest posts about how they have fun and do good. I’m thrilled to be included in the line-up! Sharing is caring, so they say!

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Not to worry, here are some tips that Avi Kaplan and I of Rad Campaign compiled to help nonprofits rock your online presence. Cycle through a combination of blog authors and guest bloggers from within your organization, board members, influencers, etc. Spotlight/Profile, Interview. Publish 1-2 blog posts each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. Is there resistance?

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JULY 29, 2010

She also has seven more tips you can check out. • Jake of Grant Writing Confidential also emphasizes the importance of storytelling , among other tips, in his post, How to Write a "Juicy" Nonprofit Blog - or a Blog of Any Kind. Nonprofit 2.0 Nonprofit 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

” My colleagues at Momsrising, the poster child for Networked Nonprofits, offered this amazing guest post filled with great tips on how to get your blog noticed. It’s every blogger’s nightmare. We started by proactively reaching out to bloggers of color to participate in the blog carnival.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Beth Kanter who shares tips for the content creation impaired, Tinu Abayomi-Paul who discusses why Storify is great to curate social content, and YouTube who is launching Next Cause. Tips for the Content Creation Impaired. Interview someone who has done interesting work that relates to the topics you blog about.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families. We’ve made it easy for CauseVox clients to get on board with #GivingTuesday by creating a set of resources, tips, guides, and providing extra support specific to the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Deanna Zandt is a blogger who writes about social media, civil society, and activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Alex Steed is the blogger at Make Something Happen Blog, the blog of the Point. Alex is doing interviews, articles, and roundups. I was just interviewed ! Fundraising : Unlike traditional fundraisers, on The Point, no one parts with a dime until enough people pledge funds to reach the tipping point. Your thoughts?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Part of the application process is to submit links to places you've been quoted, interviewed, or mentioned in the media. I thought I'd post the list here, to give a little "link love" to the folks who quoted, or interviewed me, and 'cause some of the pieces might interest you. Call Them Equal Opportunity Bloggers,” by Jessica Guynn.

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JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. Here are a few tips for getting the most out of Facebook: Create a Page, Not a Group. Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. First in Education. They can raise money, recruit volunteers, or spread awareness about their cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

For the WeAreMedia Module 4: Spreading Awareness and Buzz With Social Media , the community has built an awesome resource - lots of tips, resources, and ideas from people's experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Here’s an interview with the translators about best practices for facilitating training activities that need to be translated. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco. Both shared tips and practice advice. My translator is asking me to slow down.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting. These are all tips that I picked up from other people.

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JULY 25, 2008

There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? Read an interview of an Android developer. That’s a great step. It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

As part of the research for our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , Aliza Sherman and I have been reading, interviewing, and researching self-care practices both for the individual and how nonprofit organizations can support it. We’ve come across examples of how nonprofit abuse self-care.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

and Kimberly Wilson interviewed me for the Tranquility du Jour Podcast (thanks, Kimberly!). November was a good month for press. The WE Volunteer blog I write for, Do Good, Feel Good , was mentioned in WSJ.com's Blog Watch (thanks Beckey Bright!), Plan Your 2010: Craft Inc. and Craft Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. Some Great Links Shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I posed a question on the video bloggers list about how to get good audio. David kindly pointed me to the online discussion and some tips from Arin Crumley. But who knows, we're working on a feature length version and I might put out some of the interviews in a video blog in support of the longer film. Old media style.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2008

Are "the best" or "most influential" lists of bloggers a good thing or a bad thing? I rather not have a list, but get to know them one-by-one - and these interviews are a way of doing that. But in the last month, I've come across three "best of" type women blogger lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. In this segment I interview Jonny Goldstein about how to shoot video without shooting yourself in the foot in the editing room. Jonny's tips include: 1.

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JUNE 7, 2008

Just a quick shout out for Beth Terry, another Oakland-based blogger, who was nice enough to interview me last month for her blog, Fake Plastic Fish. These are actually great tips for anyone who is creating a campaign for a cause they care about. interview plastic recycle filter Brita Thanks, Beth!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

The countertrend has sparked a debate over whether the conventional wisdom that the Internet and social networking inherently tip the balance of power in favor of democracy is mistaken. From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My Cambodian friend, Mongkol , a blogger that I met five years ago when he came to the US to do his graduate studies, wrote us a note to hand to our taxi driver. I tweeted about visiting a wild life and the NGO offered a great tip about not missing the sun bear via Twitter. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Interviews (written, audio, video).

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JULY 15, 2008

They can interview those experts and expose them to the public. He gave a series of tips that will help video become popular, but stressed the fact that some videos will never go viral. If a nonprofit works internationally, they should film their trip and the people they talked to and the work that they did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. On the right, is Sopheap who I interviewed for BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated. Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. is still relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Interview with Jonathon Colman. Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation. Bloggers Who Create Community Award. Advice on How To Not Pitch Bloggers. Help Me Send Leng Sopharath To College in Good Health!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa. Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! I hope Allan summarizes the responses back on his blog. NpTech Software.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tips for getting your volunteering opportunities seen and shared: Post about your volunteer opportunities consistently. There are a number of media outlets you can use to publicize your program, including: TV or radio stations Newspapers Magazines Local bloggers or social media influencers. Send out social media blasts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

I am a social marketing believer, blogger, researcher, practitioner and enthusiast in the concept of Social marketing for good. Best practical tip, create a relatively simple, but not hackable password and keep it the same for all the accounts you are going to create. Tell me a little about you. Trendspotting by Dr. Taly Weiss 2.

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