Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. I view it as a focus group that offers content ideas for blog posts as well as to provide another conversation channel to share insights about social media. Photo Views. Tagging photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

NPtech Colleagues: @zanarama Zan McColloch Lussier @ericamills Erica Mills @seattledrury Peter Drury photo by Akhtar. Northwest Harvest Food Bank used its social media channels to mobilize supporters to give food donations that ended up breaking a Guinness Book of World Records. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Photo by Thomas Hawk. Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. I absolutely agree on the need to work in networks of organizations.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Statistics have changed, new social channels have opened, but it’s clear that there are proven fundamental strategies and nonprofit best practices that can help an organization flourish in all areas. The ‘old rule’ that donors who come in via one channel should be communicated with through that same channel. Breakdown the Silos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. Connie Reece shared some insights in this interview and you find more links to case studies and post campaign reflections here.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! In addition to making your website more accessible from outside channels, ensure your website and all of its pages are easy to navigate. Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand. Understand the Giver’s Journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

Photo by Markpolous I am one week before the NTC , Day of Service , and Penguin Day and it's pretty crazy to say the least. I wanted to get my schedule in one easy to reference place (for myself) and think about how to incorporate some new panel moderation/panel techniques into my practice. s like a new set of antennae."

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Storytelling techniques Craft these stories with care, using narrative techniques that engage the emotions of your readers. Photos, videos, and audio clips can make the experiences of those you’ve helped feel more immediate and impactful. The worst thing you can do is confuse your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? What are the techniques for "listening'?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The lab used human design facilitation techniques that I have been trained on by Luma Institute. We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). Photo by Rachel Calderon. One issue would be highlighted every month. Showcase data tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

There are two cohort groups, one working on strategic use of a single channel and a more advanced group working on an integrated strategy. With both, the process begins with setting SMART objectives and Kami Huyse points out why this is important. Increase email list sign ups through social media channels by 500 names by June 30, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Photo by Social Misfits. This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops. Storify with Tweets and Photos. They post a photo of the recipient on their Facebook page and tag the donor as a way to say thank you. Charles Wells, JustGiving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. And everyday until….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

My take is that just because we have the tools, a youthful enthusiasm for generosity, and the desire to do something, there is a need for sharing of best practices and techniques. Photo by David Parmet (In the green room waiting to go on the stage, in between Pete Cashmore and Geoff Livingston) See more of David's conference photos here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

Flicker Photo By Mike Willis. The session will focus on exploring how nonprofits are expanding their efforts to influence public policy through social channels and understanding the legal issues and how to evaluate the work. (I’ll It is important that your social media policy is a living document that reflects current practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

My Facebook page is a focus group or channel for research. It has been applied to specific social media channels – for example Twitter Ladder or Facebook Ladder or to describes different levels of engagement across channels. Promote Facebook through other channels online and offline. Use a custom landing page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

Photo by Halloween Jack. Analytics and Measurement Techniques" (free to download). What insights have you discovered from measuring your social media strategy and reflecting on the results? . Jordan Viator had a guest post by the authors. . What is your nonprofit's measurement strategy for social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Photo by BirgerKing. I’ve developed this 10 question assessment that can help you reflect on whether you are developing good focus habits or whether you are becoming an ADHD goldfish! Attention training is technique from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart. Take a guess. Image Source: PR Daily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Photo by BirgerKing. This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. I’ve developed this 10 question assessment that can help you reflect on whether you are developing good focus habits or whether you are becoming an ADHD goldfish! Attention training is technique from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2021

You can customize these emails to reflect your organization’s branding or specific campaign details. Update supporter contact information: Using techniques such as phone and email append, your prospect research tool can help you fill in any gaps in your supporter contact information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Photo by Borman818. These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. Social Media Fundraising As Part of A Multi-Channel Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective.

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