Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Groups of 5-16: Meetings with larger groups tend to result in more than one conversation while walking. There will be conversations while walking, then planned stops for presentations.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Over at Care2 , Garth Moore relates the value of attending a conference without the distraction of a laptop in front of you. Pop on over to NTEN's Community Builders (CommBuild) Community of Practice group and add your ideas to the conversation. Are you focusing on the right channel to get your message across?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. It's true: the employees of tomorrow may not have laptops or PCs. The new realm of net-enabled personal communications devices will cut down on the need for many employees to have an expensive-to-maintain PC or laptop. FYI: it doesn't work over 3G.)

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Care2

MAY 29, 2012

We wrote the book because we thought today's marketing conversation needs to refocus on making all of the tactics work together. They watch TV, read magazines, and yes, use their laptops, tablets and phones. I recently released Marketing in the Round with Gini Dietrich that directly addresses how to break down these silos.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2013

Over at Care2 , Garth Moore relates the value of attending a conference without the distraction of a laptop in front of you. Pop on over to NTEN's Community Builders (CommBuild) Community of Practice group and add your ideas to the conversation. Are you focusing on the right channel to get your message across?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Whatever channel they use, they’re building a bridge from online to onland. Use a Unique HashTag: A hashtag is a keyword that opens up a public conversation on Twitter. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. They understand that it is a scaffolded process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

The Conversational Keynote: Room Configuration Is Key. I’m working on perfecting the conversational keynote. The space where I gave my keynote in Toronto is well designed designed for conversational keynote format. This made it easy for me to get off the stage and wander into the audience to engage them in conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. How can we use back-channels as a progressive force at conferences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

There were some technical issues, but that didn't prevent me from having an extremely engaging conversation in Second Life while listening to a fascinating panel on how technology should be integrated into the law curriculum and how professors can incorporate it effectively in their pedagogy to engage student learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 This year, I was honored to be speaking on a conversational panel about Wisdom and Social Good, Giving, and Technology along with Laura Arrillaga-Adreeessen, author of Giving 2.0 Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I tend to bumble-bee around and listen in on selected conversations, but it is important for people to hear from their peers. James was able to search Twitter and show them a conversation happening online with other choruses about fundraising. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

My Laptop Stickers. First step was showing them the existing conversation, which both educates about benefits and dispels fears at same time. True engagement means full engagement in the channels where you choose to invest. KD Paine , the Queen of Social Media Measurement, said it. How do you address resistence?

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Any good stewardship plan involves consistent and strategic engagement with your donors through a number of channels and with a variety of touchpoints. Creating organic channels of communication versus a one-sided slew of asks is how you turn a first-time donor into a long-term supporter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

There is an event taking place on Friday on topic of " Avatar-Based Marketing " as a conversation between avatars moderated by Ansible Berkman. Taran, whose back problems kept him in bed on painkillers with his laptop, was also there and has written a great report on his explorations.). and so I volunteered to take notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders. What did you learn that from your experience that you apply to starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders? I think of those online communities as social media because it was all about conversation, getting to know people, and interacting. Note the blink tag!

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

In the last few years, national and international nonprofits have begun to adopt it as another channel that donors can use to contribute. We wanted to be at the forefront of that conversation." Unlike a traditional currency, though, it's decentralized, so it doesn't go through a bank. " How to Set Up Bitcoin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Participants had digital copies of the powerpoints translated into french and used their laptops to follow along. We used real-time translators and participants used headsets to tune into the language channel of their choice to understand what was being said. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. Localized Content Delivery.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. These are toys like Mattel's Internet-connected Hello Barbie that can have a truly interactive conversation with a child. Social Media and Fundraising. Children love it.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Mark’s infectious enthusiasm and evident passion for his cause make him an excellent story teller and his road trips have sparked a national conversation and movement. He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2022

Smartphone ownership is almost ubiquitous in the United States: 85% of Americans own a smartphone, compared to 77% who own a desktop or laptop computer ( Pew Research Center, 2021 ), 48% of US adults ages 18–29 say they are almost constantly online ( Pew Research Center, 2022 ), and on average, Americans spend 4.2

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Here’s how it works: Let’s say you urgently need to replace six laptop computers for students in your program. You mention to one of your best donors about the laptops and that replacing them isn’t in the budget but it really needs to be done so the students can continue learning. Like the loyal donor they are, they offer to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We had wifi in the room and participants brought their laptops – this give us the opportunity for open lab time or what I call “shoulder to shoulder” learning. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And I don’t want this to just be a one-way conversation. If you’re ready to have uncomfortable conversations that are momentary. Send all kinds of channels. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation. So here we go. Are you ready? I want to hear from you.

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Media Cause

JULY 1, 2021

But, aside from this month, when rainbows explode over social media channels and brands flaunt trans models, it’s still rare to see the LGBTQIA+ community represented in advertising. When I’m fighting a deadline to find a photo of a person sitting at a laptop, for example, I’d search, “person on a laptop” or, “Black woman on a laptop.”

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Your CRM has information on donors’ preferred names, communication platforms and donation channels. Offering a mobile donation platform so donors can give whenever the mood strikes without having to pull out their laptop or desktop to do so. You can also use your CRM to determine the best way to get in touch with current donors.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop? But if it’s eight o’clock in the evening, and I’ve got my organization laptop at home, and I want to watch Netflix, like, who cares, right? Going back to: how are folks supposed to collaborate, and what are the best channels to do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

We got into a little side conversation about privacy and nonprofits and she offered to write up this post that includes some tips for nonprofits. A YouTube channel? Photo by Sean MacEntee. Note from Beth: My colleague, Taryn Degnan, from CommonSense Media, shared this wonderful poster about privacy for elementary school kids.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Let’s keep the conversation going. You get yourself some kind of together and you kind of meander and find your way to your laptop. And then laptop because, you know, work, right? And to be able to have those conversations separate and apart from making the decision, you want folks to be heard. I’m jelly.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Many museums are experimenting with “back channel” platforms that allow visitors and staff to chat and share content while onsite at the museum. The back channel isn’t just a social space. I noted three distinct, valuable uses of back channels at WebWise: To communicate socially in an environment that does not permit open dialogue.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Email is one of the most important communication channels for your nonprofit. But it seems that many nonprofits are still having trouble: Nonprofit click-through and conversion rates significantly declined in 2012-13. Responsive design automatically detects the device being used (mobile phone, tablet, laptop) and reformats the email.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

It’s going to be a lovely, low-tech conversation about high-tech stuff. And then Ds and Fs, you really want to have some deep conversation inside your organization to think about, “What are we going to do if we have a bunch of things that our team has rated poorly?” We’re going to talk about all of that.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I was flying into DFW and I had my laptop out and I was preparing a presentation and I was wondering, you know, “Do I know what I’m getting into?” ” But anyways, it’s kind of a jump starter in this conversation. I know some of you are small organizations, but it’s best to work in multiple channels.

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