Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. His 1989 book The End of Nature was the first book to warn the general public about the threat of global warming.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Get more golfers and sponsors to the green with these insider tips to create buzz and promote the tournament. Simply share a link to the site on all of your nonprofit’s digital channels—email campaigns, organic and/or paid social media, your organization’s event website, personal emails, even your email signature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.” This takes patience.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Guest post by Darian Rodriguez Heyman , creator of the nationwide Social Media for Nonprofits conference series and former Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation. . But what does that mean, anyway, and what’s the key to unleashing the immense word-of-mouth power that is the allure of social media? There are no experts, yet.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Green beer was on tap, corn beef and cabbage were on the menu, and shamrock-bedecked revelers were primed and planning to enjoy their favorite spots for dining and drinking. And, through those stories, to develop relationships with the media and elected officials in that market. Patrick’s Day weekend crowds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! After each group presented, everyone was given 5 green sticky tabs and one red tab. Books Strategy' What was your experience?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. I did a mashup with social media framing. From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. 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

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

The following books ask you to rethink your assumptions, consider new approaches, and act on your best ideas. 14 Must-Read Books for Nonprofits. While people typically seek advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money, this book will help you discover how to spend money to boost your happiness. . Dive in today. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. To the Arctic was the official companion book to the IMAX film, To the Arctic.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. To the Arctic was the official companion book to the IMAX film, To the Arctic.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once given the green light, fundraisers can join the page or be placed there by admins. Leaderboards display the page’s media thumbnail, page title, fundraiser name and profile image, and most importantly, the funding progress toward their goal. Here’s how it works: organization admins create a page for approval.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 18, 2020

It’s all well and good wanting to present your nonprofit as eco-friendly, but if it isn’t true this will get you in the bad books of many potential supporters. Check out our articles on social media and email marketing for nonprofits, to help you make sure your digital marketing campaigns are effective and you aren’t wasting energy.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

Whether it’s an emailed donation appeal, social media post, or old-school flyer on a bulletin board, the best nonprofit communications help your audience relate to and position themselves within your mission’s story. Her book, How to Write a Grant: Become a Grant Writing Unicorn, is a bestseller for nonprofit fundraising and grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

QR Codes (Quick Response) is a bar code that can be scanned by your mobile phone (with a free app) and are currently being used with print media (or t-shirt media) to point people to more information online. Also, they’re being used in books. What are some of the best examples of QR codes for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits. Do you agree?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your Board members should not be family members, but people who are interested in your cause and have an applicable skill, such as accounting, marketing, social work, or social media, that they are willing to bring to the table. Book speaking gigs at your church, community group, garden club, anywhere that will have you.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you have a donor management system, such as Bloomerang or Little Green Light , you can easily pull a list of donors and prospects. You can find new donor prospects by booking speaking engagements at community groups, clubs, churches, universities, anywhere you think you can find people who will be interested in your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. If you are like me, you are asked all the time to use these media to create movements. See, the mark of a great social media effort is when the community itself owns it. Don’t make that mistake. And control? Please, why even bother?

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Socialbrite

JANUARY 15, 2021

This is what’s found in books, mathematical equations, processes, memos and the like. This step involves creating job aids, training materials, write-ups, tests and other printed or written material or any form of media for consumption. Sustainability is not just about going “green.” Explicit knowledge. Tacit knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2007

A couple weeks ago Tara Hunt of HorsePigCow tagged me to be a part of the media consumption meme that has been flying around. It's been a pretty busy couple weeks, so I'm just now getting to it: Books: My favorite category! I keep track of what I read each year and have posted lists of my favorite books in 2006 and 2005.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

By Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Founder, Social Media for Nonprofits. Is "Top Ten Social Media Fundraising Tips, as Featured at Social Media for Nonprofits " such a compelling topic that droves of nptechies turn out to cast their ballot, or is something else afoot? 379 is my new magic number. Ed note: it's true, by a longshot!].

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Litmos is compatible with numerous media types, including Microsoft Office, Flash, video, and audio. Little Green Light. Little Green Light is a cloud-based donor management system designed for nonprofits. Little Green Light helps you keep track of donors, volunteers, event attendees, board members, and more.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 23, 2020

With so many new social media platforms to use to market your non-profit, you might think email marketing is a little bit outdated, but that’s just not true. As emails are sent directly to a person, rather than out to a crowd as with social media, it allows you to personalise them to the recipient. Access quick feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

People are even better at judging points on a line, but box plots aren’t yet a default option in Word (here’s a tutorial on how to force one out of Excel, though [link] Since we’re working with the defaults, here is how our social media data looks as a bar graph. Ah, so much better! Now the trends are much easier to see at a glance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

And it also promotes a way of working advocated by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine's new book, The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change. Tags: Donors Donors Fundraising Green Office GreenTech Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Using the Web and Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2013

One of the participants is Jonah Berger, Best Selling author of the book, Contagious. If you ask most social media “gurus,” they’ll tell you it’s all about getting lucky. Those six principles are the basis of my new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On , and the first principle is Social Currency. Or they’ll talk about cats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Lots of great resources being shared, including using social media to promote sustainability ( see " The 12 Faces of Social Media for Green Marketers and Sellers of Sustainability ". An excellent resource for everything green and nonprofits and tips for celebrating Earth Day, check out GreenNonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Patton who is often referred to as the “Grandfather of Developmental Evaluation” and any starting point for understanding the methods begins with his book, “ Developmental Evaluation.” These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Social Media (Facilitator: Beth Kanter). a) Green: Great things you’ve heard of, or done yourself. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media.

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