Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Allison Fine and I have been thrilled with the reception that our book, The Networked Nonprofit , has received. If You Want An Answer, Ask Everyone by Jane Wales, Huffington Post, provides an overview of crowdsourcing in philanthropy and quotes from the chapter in our book on crowdsourcing. And that’s just October!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Check out my pinterest board “ Nonprofit Infographics.” Or just plan ugly and silly.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

In order to have long term fiscal sustainability, nonprofits must be considering future generations as potential donors and supporters. Baby Boomers and Generation X have fiscally supported nonprofits for decades, now Millennials are the next generation that must be courted. PEW, 2010). Recommendations: Communication. Technology.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

In order to have long term fiscal sustainability, nonprofits must be considering future generations as potential donors and supporters. Baby Boomers and Generation X have fiscally supported nonprofits for decades, now Millennials are the next generation that must be courted. PEW, 2010). Recommendations: Communication. Technology.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If you loved our 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2019 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! Nonprofit Management. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar 2019.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

I blurbed this book with, “If you are looking for a recipe book for tips and tactics to integrate mobile and social media to round out your nonprofit’s marketing plan, look no further than this book.” As a trainer, I was most interested in Chapter 7 about equipping your organization to do multi-channel campaigns.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

If you loved our 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2018 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! Nonprofit Management. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar 2018.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it The chapter on reflective practice is also essential if want to transform your social media metrics intos meaningful wisdom to improve your social media strategy – the chapter offers a process for doing so. This book will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

The topic of habit change is something that Aliza Sherman and I researched and experimented with as we wrote “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout ” over the last year. As we wrote chapters on the book, we examined our own unhealthy habits and experimented applying some of the methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Her work was the inspiration for Rheingold’s book (the mindfulness chapter). Do you us mindfulness techniques like meditation, taking walks, or other ‘low tech” methods to help you focus or do you rely on “calming” technology tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic. NTEN has also used a similar crowdsourcing techniques to shape the NTC conference agenda. Does crowdsourcing enhance or bring value to face-to-face conferences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Similarly, the focus on rape as a weapon of war, Autesserre argues, has caused some armed groups to engage in mass rape as a technique to gain attention and a seat at the negotiating table. For a nonprofit to be transparent means that it is open, accountable, and honest with its stakeholders and the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Rob Cottingham, Social Signal – Cartoon for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. It is not too early to start thinking about your nonprofit’s social media strategy for 2018, including how you want to capitalize on social media trends that will have maximum impact in 2018.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I just finished my session on ROI as part of the Online Nonprofit Technology Conference - a two-day virtual conference. I presented on ROI and Nonprofit Technology. My presentation is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's book. Paul has to use ROI techniques to help the organization make the best decision.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

That’s what inspired me to start Benetech , a nonprofit tech company, over 20 years ago. We don’t know if the student ever gets past Chapter 1. I knew we could help a lot of people if we focused on finding a sustainable—instead of a highly profitable—way to develop technology for the social good.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Many nonprofits fall into the trap of believing that their audience is the general public, when the truth is that your supporters are much more nuanced than that. By putting together a comprehensive profile of your audience, your nonprofit is better able to create personalized content that speaks to your audience and drives them to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourced Haircut by Tracy the Astonishing The book I'm working on with Allison Fine includes a chapter on crowdsourcing. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. This is similar to the pomodoro technique. This book is a gem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I love the chapter on “The Symptoms of Information Obesity” where he shares a persona based on his wife, Rosalyn Lemieux , that illustrates how too much information can warp our sense of time and other ways it can be toxic to our lives. His methods make use of some of the online software that helps you keep track of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) Finally, Avinash suggests that testing should be fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This is something that nonprofit professionals are just beginning to explore.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I have a lot of opinions about nonprofits and how nonprofit staff should be treated (I know, big surprise!). After all, it’s the people who make or break a nonprofit organization. How are they supposed to learn about the latest trends and techniques if they don’t attend conferences or attend association meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Organizer Beth Kanter shaped each call around a chapter of the Giving Day Playbook , and her expertise and enthusiasm helped to keep the group engaged throughout the year.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

For 5 years the Blackbaud Institute has brought together experts in the nonprofit sector to speak on a wide variety of topics. From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. In this post we’ll focus on must-haves for your nonprofit marketing plan.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re like most people working at a nonprofit, you probably had a “Holy Mobile!” Using this simple method, your nonprofit advertises the availability of your designated fundraising phone number to potential donors. Your nonprofit receives a check in the mail 30 to 90 days later. Ben Rigby, The Extraordinaires. Charge $1.99

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

We've been working on what started out as the a chapter on Metrics and ROI. And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. . Most importantly, I am looking for some examples from nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

It is filled with the science and practical techniques to create a bonfire of attention — for anything – from a product to social change cause. Let’s look at one of these triggers that nonprofits and social good causes might leverage. It is based on reciprocity.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Our current economic situation is making nonprofits even more risk averse than they usually are. Our current economic situation is making nonprofits even more risk averse than they usually are. Then read this Idealist Guide chapter for nonprofit-specific networking stats, advice, and techniques.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? And how do you check results? Join CMMB Facebook group. 534 (increase from 128).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Unlike fellow nonprofit book nerd, Rosetta Thurman , I am way behind on my nonprofit book summer reading list. My blog is the July 15th stop on Clay Shirky’s virtual book tour for his recently published book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age. The book give us the 50,000 mile high view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2015

Companies like LinkedIn, Netflix and Amazon use this information to better serve their customers in an efficient way and nonprofits are now starting to do the same thing. For a real life example, let’s take a nonprofit that is at the forefront of using data science to advance its mission.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I have been in the nonprofit space for about 15 years now and … There we go. Maybe it’s because you’re thinking about fundraising or nonprofit management. Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. So it’s about a study. .

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! Nonprofit technology, and more! 2015 - 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The point was driven home to me by a commenter from a nonprofit organization named Paulette who works for an arts organization who left this comment on the interview with Marc from the Chicago Symphony: We're trying to figure out how to best engage in social media. What are some advanced techniques for listening? Defining Listening.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Each month, I look at dozens of nonprofit websites and hundreds of nonprofit emails. Are you up-to-date on the latest tactics and techniques in your area of focus? Imagine producing online communications you're proud to share with the world and that garner praise from funders, donors, and other stakeholders. Are you credible?

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