Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

For the last few years, there has been a good nonprofit presence and this year is no exception! I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Nonprofit Social Media Managers Enter The C-Suite: Peer To Peer. Sunday, March 10 3:30PM – 6:00PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Allison Fine and I have been thrilled with the reception that our book, The Networked Nonprofit , has received. I wanted to share a few recent posts that I’ve enjoyed and a couple of upcoming book events. That evening, Public Conversations Project and the TechFoundation , are hosting a book event from 5:30-7:30 p.m.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Check out my pinterest board “ Nonprofit Infographics.” Source: Hot Button Studio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Peter greeted me at the airport and as I got into the car I noticed a copy of Rheingold’s book NetSmart in the back seat. ” The article profiles the work of Alex Pang , a Stanford University technologist and author of the forthcoming book, “ Distraction Addiction.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

That’s what inspired me to start Benetech , a nonprofit tech company, over 20 years ago. million downloads of accessible books through its online library, to over 200,000 people with disabilities such as blindness and severe dyslexia. We don’t know if the student ever gets past Chapter 1. Talk about Big Data!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Rob Cottingham, Social Signal – Cartoon for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. It is not too early to start thinking about your nonprofit’s social media strategy for 2018, including how you want to capitalize on social media trends that will have maximum impact in 2018.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

The topic of habit change is something that Aliza Sherman and I researched and experimented with as we wrote “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout ” over the last year. As we wrote chapters on the book, we examined our own unhealthy habits and experimented applying some of the methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

This book is a gem. Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. What’s refreshing and different about this book is that it isn’t about trying to get everything done efficiently. He suggests setting year-long goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. That's just about when I discovered Avinash Kaushik's blog, Occam's Razor and his first book on Web analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourced Haircut by Tracy the Astonishing The book I'm working on with Allison Fine includes a chapter on crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I just finished my session on ROI as part of the Online Nonprofit Technology Conference - a two-day virtual conference. I presented on ROI and Nonprofit Technology. My presentation is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's book. Paul has to use ROI techniques to help the organization make the best decision.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Many nonprofits fall into the trap of believing that their audience is the general public, when the truth is that your supporters are much more nuanced than that. By putting together a comprehensive profile of your audience, your nonprofit is better able to create personalized content that speaks to your audience and drives them to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. The book goes into detail about each of these triggers, describing how they work and examples of how organizations and people capture attention. It is based on reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This is something that nonprofit professionals are just beginning to explore.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I have a lot of opinions about nonprofits and how nonprofit staff should be treated (I know, big surprise!). After all, it’s the people who make or break a nonprofit organization. How are they supposed to learn about the latest trends and techniques if they don’t attend conferences or attend association meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Unlike fellow nonprofit book nerd, Rosetta Thurman , I am way behind on my nonprofit book summer reading list. My blog is the July 15th stop on Clay Shirky’s virtual book tour for his recently published book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age. Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

I'm not sure that I have formally announced that Allison Fine and I are working on a book (here's her blog post ). The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. We've been working on what started out as the a chapter on Metrics and ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? And how do you check results? Join CMMB Facebook group. Tell a friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The point was driven home to me by a commenter from a nonprofit organization named Paulette who works for an arts organization who left this comment on the interview with Marc from the Chicago Symphony: We're trying to figure out how to best engage in social media. What are some advanced techniques for listening?

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JUNE 11, 2021

I have been in the nonprofit space for about 15 years now and … There we go. Maybe it’s because you’re thinking about fundraising or nonprofit management. Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. So it’s about a study. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

I also learned that one-on-one donor solicitation techniques can also work and some of the challenges of being able to track the velocity or flow of networked donations. site where folks are contributing ideas and tips to help write the book. I'm sure there will be a lively chapter about nonprofits and twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). 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." The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. This chapter, from the last section of the book, is very personal to me. Read more online and buy your own copy today. And that’s just getting in the door. What makes teenagers such a tough crowd?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2012

Book Giveaway: I’ll buy a copy of Marketing in the Round for the commentor who answers this question: ”How could Marketing in the Round help your nonprofit get more out of its marketing efforts?” This is something that many are grappling with – from large Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2012

But I also love using those pens for visualization techniques and especially to sketch out charts and graphs. I did a deep dive on data visualization techniques while working on a chapter of my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , with co-author KD Paine. That’s when I heard about the book, “ I Love Charts.”

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Gather information from other nonprofits that have implemented similar technology programs. Nonprofits typically conduct an ROI process to help make technology purchase decisions. Remember, a good, credible ROI process incorporates story telling techniques that are designed to sell the value of the project to decision-makers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The NY Chapter of the Red Cross offers Ten Tips in this YouTube Video. The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. NTEN has two fantastic events this month! I'll be participating in one at the end of the month).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bruce Lesley is one of a growing number of nonprofit executive directors and senior leaders that use Twitter. And, he isn’t tweeting about what he ate for breakfast or one of his personal passions, basketball. Any individual or nonprofit organization can curate information using these tools. What tools do you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

I met Katya Andresen, a social marketing expert and well respected nonprofit leader at the Netsquared Conference. She offered me a review copy of her recently published book Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes. So, what's this book about? She worked as a journalist there in the 1990s.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. In chapter 8, Asher explains that the best presentations have stories and if you want to be a good speaker, you need to know how to tell an effective story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. How Does Your Nonprofit Work With Crowds by Beth Kanter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. These are in what I consider is the best chapter of the book The Essential HR Handbook , that she co-authored with Barbara Mitchell. When Armstrong isnt writing books, shes reading.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

I came across Jeff Howe's definitive book on Crowdsourcing and in the last chapter he offer guidelines for crowdsourcing. I wrote the following trying to translate some of the ideas for nonprofits and use it as framework when looking at the Opera project. I wonder what they thought about before starting this experiment?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. See Chapter 8 on mastering the daily and weekly executive meeting. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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