Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Photo by Sea Turtle. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Digital Storytelling Challenge. NetSquared organizers were jazzed by the Digital Storytelling Challenge. Marvel at the amazing Prezi presentation from Seattle, WA's Convening Community through Story event. Seattle, WA: May Mixer. Image adapted from original photo by Dunechaser. New Groups. Want in on the fun?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Seattle Free School is a really interesting case study for a number of reasons: Social media is integral to the success of the program because it is online but it is also the mechanism for growth and community building. Tags: challenge community presentation beth kanter crowds crowdsourcing netsquared nten sxsw. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Helokee. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Photo by Tsmall. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by AnEye4Pictures. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2017

After my colleagues and I figured that out (it took us a few years), we adopted a number of practices designed to bring our work online: posting photos and videos on social media, sending out a series of emails, and so on. Because people are busy. Unfortunately, pretty much everyone else adopted the same practices at about the same time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. Other times, I simply made them stretch like the photo above. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Our goal is to help each other solve our tech challenges, find a tribe of people who share our passions, and have a ridiculously good time while we’re at it! Naples, FL: Photos Online 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. Seattle, WA: Fundraising + Technology: How to Raise Money in a Changing Landscape. Newest Net2Local Groups.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! Check out her thoughts (and photos!) Seattle, WA: Social Media + Traditional Media = Crazy Awesome! That’s why NetSquared Twin Cities is co-hosting a happy hour this week for nonprofits and technology folk in Minneapolis-St. Event Reports. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Seattle, WA: End of Summer Soiree: Resource Roundup and Social Networking. Photo by [Geeking Chen]([link] -->. Storymakers is live! Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. We have $13,000 in prizes available!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2018

Fundraising for your cause is exciting, challenging and should be unique to your mission. Annual appeals, #GivingTuesday and end-of-year fundraising campaigns are imperative to sustaining your operating costs, however, stimulating a donor or member to give beyond those efforts can be challenging. Tell a story in your appeals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Depending on your goals and your resources, you may use a little from all of these approaches for your year-end campaign, like ENGAGE did in Seattle , when their peer-to-peer fundraising challenge culminated in a board game tournament. They raised $92,000 to feed families in the Seattle area, more than tripling their original goal.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Get creative with peer-to-peer fundraising with a fun challenge or competition! For instance, ask your youth group to participate in a fun TikTok dance challenge or talent show. But, there are other challenges that come with venue management. They can upload their videos with a specific hashtag.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Relationships are formed, projects are started and we feel less alone in what can sometimes be a challenging job. Seattle, WA: WordPress: Blogs, Websites and So Much More! Photo by Ben Teoh. NetSquared’s core objective is to get nonprofit techies and activists together in the same room. Friday, May 16. Monday, May 19.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

Developed in 2019 and envisioned by the Seattle Public Library Foundation, Library Giving Day was created to support libraries nationwide. Include imagery since people naturally look at pictures before reading text and photos can evoke the donors’ emotions. You probably already have stories you can pull from!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Trust me — I know them well because I used to be one.” Giller, a journalist, established the Seattle-based nonprofit as a destination news web site for environmental news, reports and opinion with a wry sense of humor. Source: grist.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. meet my husband and parents-in-law. But not the dog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. They will be more likely to apply what they learned or what we call the “challenge of transfer” because they’re inspired. Here’s an example from nonprofit tech day at Microsoft in Seattle last year. Working in Cohorts.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

To kick off the course, we’re doing a simple exercise at the Seattle zoo (but you can do it anywhere). It will help you understand the challenges involved in supporting user self-expression. Participants will be asked to write up their experiences (photos/video enthusiastically supported!),

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. What has been one of the biggest challenges? What have been some of the challenges, and how have you dealt with them, or not dealt with them? The two biggest challenges, one of them I'm dealing with, and one of them I'm not, one of the challenges is the business side of things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by smemon. On my end, I might have also filtered my social graph to just my friends here in Seattle so I could buy a friend a coffee or beer while he’s helping me think about phones. Guest Post by Gideon Rosenblatt. Every once in a while, technology comes along that helps us re-imagine the way organizations work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

I've attended Green Drinks in Vancouver & Seattle and think this event format is wonderful for socializing - if that's your cup of tea (or rather glass of wine!) I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle. Crime Fighting Team Photo by ittiebittiesforyou.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

Nicole and her classmates are building a rapid-fire, user-generated online and physical exhibit which will be open June 6-8 in Seattle. The University of Washington Museology Graduate Program invited Nina up to Seattle to teach a course on using social technologies in museums. An exciting challenge! We want your advice.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

These challenges are combining to make it harder to find new donors and track their interactions across channels. But, without proper data hygiene practices, you’ll potentially face the challenge of dealing with inaccurate, outdated, or missing data, all of which can slow down your strategy. So, what can you do? How donors can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

m also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Burkina Faso, West Africa), and am even now preparing to move from Washington, DC to Seattle immediately following a two-month fellowship in Australia. And they challenged me and my colleagues to prove the value of our web strategy through constant testing and the presentation of hard-core data.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

If like me you’re interested in this, check out the Greener IT Challenge , an informational website that gets to the heart of the matter and allows you to get a certificate in knowing what green IT is all about. If you like your Twitter to the point, without a lot of extraneous photos and hashtags, it might appeal to you.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

A growing number of nonprofits are offering match or challenge programs as part of their email campaigns. Help Us Face the Challenges in the Year Ahead – Right Now. Breaking: New Match Gift Challenge. The year in photos: Time to be bold. 10 photos that inspired us this year. Our most challenging year yet.

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