Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Closing the Triangle : This is a network weaving technique of introducing people in your network. Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools. Some Resources: Just getting started with Twitter?

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APRIL 30, 2009

While it can be a great technique, there are definitely things that work and things that don’t. And here are some social media-specific posts that you might find interesting: Mark Pitman has “A Case for Twitter, Facebook, and social media for healthcare fundraisers.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Tags: wearemedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

tags: nonprofits socialmedia ). This slide deck comes via Tim Wilson who I "met" in Twitter while he was getting information to organize this panel. I wrote about some specific instructional techniques you can use here and here. The panel featured case studies from David Neff , Heidi Adams.and Connie Reece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Stop twittering from your cell phone in the bathroom and use that time to think about how you could be more efficient using a particular social media tool. Use Time Management Techniques. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

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. Using Twitter, a digital camera and software that makes it easy to post photos to twitter and his network, he was able to quickly identify this mystery bird.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Content Curation on Twitter. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Additioanily, they've gotten celebrities like Twitter-god Aplusk. applications resulted in severe backlash, and is now a case study on the infamous punk'd list. . It will be even longer before you see and measure social impact. I was so happy that Jeremiah Owyang shared his research note taking technique.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org. s community using Twitter. This brief case study reveals the highlights of a carefully-planned and diligently-executed marketing strategy. The results?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

It's not enough to build a Facebook Fan page or throw an account on Twitter - you need a strategy. Tags: Care2 Webinars Nonprofit Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I started with a variation of of the human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Bryce Skofield presented a case study about how their agency was using social media. Tags: social media technology training. Together we were able to share a combination of strategy and tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

One participant on my Facebook page, Maggie Leifer McGary discovered this as well about her nonprofit's fan page (check out her case study ) While it is possible to go back and download an export of daily metrics from the Facebook insights tool from the beginning, it can be a huge pain. Tagging photos. Tagging a person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Stop twittering from your cell phone in the bathroom and use that time to think about how you could be more efficient using a particular social media tool. Use Time Management Techniques. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. A two-way connection is someone you follow on Twitter and follows you back. (BTW, Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node. Family members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics. Twitter is the Second Highest Referral After Google. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. The Cute Dog Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? What are the techniques for "listening'? American Coaster Enthusiasts ??? using social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Opera San Jose Case Study. They discovered a group of influencers won Twitter who were passionate fans of the company and have since enlisted them to spread the word. Joe Goode Twitter Presentation. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter. So they used the technique of “OH&# or overheard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Before I went on Twittered. My colleagues in the audience like Marshall Kirkpatrick and Holly Ross were twittering. I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. I need more experiential case studies of this from nonprofits. (My

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In addition to combining the traditional tried and true with experimental techniques, we have seen four different approaches to online fundraising integration. through both channels, though that is really layered marketing or fundraising, also an effective technique.).

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We were also very lucky that Claire Sale volunteered to be our Twitter advocate who monitored the Twitter stream and verbalized important points and insights. . The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. To learn more about it, join the Mozilla crew and friends for a Twitter chat next Monday evening. Chinese Buffet by Drunken Monkey.

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MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Be proactive.

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