Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. If there is a book I really really really want, I search for freebie chapters on the Web or use the search inside feature in Amazon. Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged! A new form of work advoidance. I take advantage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Example Tweets: Good use of Twitter Lists by @ NationalNOW to organize NOW chapters @ NationalNOW/nowchapters ! If you work at a nonprofit, make sure you create some Lists [Campaigns, Events, Donors, Volunteers, Chapters, Allies, etc.] Tags: Twitter. and ask your followers to help support your Lists.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Lauren outlines 7 Lists that organizations may find useful, including: Your organisation’s chapters and campaigns. Tags: community strategy campaigns lists twitter. They have only been rolled out to around half of the users so far. You can read more about Lists on the Twitter Blog here. What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. So, be sure to regularly retweet partners, chapters, staff, activists, donors, and sponsors. 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Lauren outlines 7 Lists that organizations may find useful, including: Your organisation’s chapters and campaigns. Tags: community strategy campaigns lists twitter. They have only been rolled out to around half of the users so far. You can read more about Lists on the Twitter Blog here. What do you think?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 15, 2010

She devoted a whole chapter to storytelling in her new book, and provides ten tips for better interviews in this guest post.( Tags: nptech Marketing Best practices Blogging Non-profit Communications. read more ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Volunteers who do a chapter's worth of image descriptions for a student textbook will get their day pass. Tags: volunteer Disney Bookshare. Just put in our zip code "94306" at the foregoing link and you should see the opportunity there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The big advantage of DAISY over typical scanned files is that DAISY includes much more extensive navigation (chapters, sections, page numbers, etc.). Tags: DAISY O'Reilly radar blind Bookshare. More and more publishers are asking that we return to them the DAISY files we create.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? Five Hot Conversations. The proposed call agenda is here.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Many Arc chapters have joined the socialmedia-sphere in 2009. Tags: Tools facebook top10 twitter. Here is my top ten list of socialmedia things I am thankful for this year. All of the games on Facebook. Open APIs and deals between social media sites. People are still trying to figure out how to raise money through social media.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The session will also address how chapters can make these sites work for them, as well as see how The Arc of the United States is making use of social networking to further our mission. Tags: Education and Training #arc09 convention education socialmedia. This presentation will cover an overview of the top social media sites (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

It is intended for staff and chapters and is encouraging them to participate in social media and craft a strategy for their chapter. Tags: policy. Wendy Harman at the Red Cross has been hard at work creating this draft version of the organization's Social Media Strategy Handbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

What I appreciate are the info graphics that accompany most of the chapters. My favorite part of the book is Chapter 21: The Social Media Marketing Compass: Creating A Social Plan. The Social Media Compass is a concept, the chapter also presents a framework for creating a social media plan. . Tags: promotion.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Here is a list of chapters that I’ve come across today that are using Twitter. Tags: Microblog Tools. These are in addition to the Arc Hamilton and The Albany Arc , which I have mentioned previously. The Arc of the US @TheArcUS. The Arc of Dallas @arcdallas. The Arc of Minnesota @TheARCofMN. The Arc of Monroe @ArcofMonroe.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. Of this set of 176 organizations, 30 have been tagged as regrantors in our database. We identified grants ranging from $750,000 to $126 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

We began the Book Club by carefully crafting a couple questions per chapter, and focusing on about one chapter per week. We quoted the book, took inspiration from the questions listed at the end of each chapter, and attempted to lead a traditional book club on Facebook. It was working pretty well as planned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I'm honored to have a chapter in the book about ROI and you can hear geek out about it here. I did a panel presentation at the NTC conference in April on the chapter as well. Bad Hires Are Expensive: How To Do It Right (Chapter on IT Staffing with James and Cassie at CommonGood Careers ). Tags: promotion.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With this fundraising app, your chapter can better plan fundraising events, collect dues, and communicate with members. Not only does OmegaOne help your chapter better raise money and plan revenue-generating activities, but it also helps you manage your money and your organization’s future projects. Chapter communication.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 30, 2010

As such, I knew that their book would be a great resource and part of what makes it so is the inclusion of reflection questions for every chapter. This reflection questions comes at the end of Chapter 6: Building Trust Through Transparency. Tags: resources book resource review the networked nonprofit.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

While we may have just closed another year’s chapter, the work is far from over. We used merge tags to include the date of when their last gift was given to help personalize it further,” says Heather Thompson, Chief Development Officer at Norwescap.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

The Greater New York chapter of Volunteers of America used its grant to increase its monthly giving program to more than 25 donors. In addition, employing other analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager gives you a full suite of information with which to hone your campaigns over time.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 11, 2010

Could your own organization and its chapters (or a network of nonprofits that share a common cause) do something similar, to help amplify your own online message? Tags: Associations Blogging chat Non-profit technology nptech online community social media Social networking Twitter. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. There were no examples – so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Organizational Culture leadership.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 22, 2010

Thanks to the AFP Northern Arizona Chapter for inviting me to spend the day with them! See the pictures at the chapter’s Facebook page. Tags: Donor Relations General Fundraising AFP fundraising. Be truly interested in your donor as a person and you can avoid feeling manipulative. It was great fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

My presentation is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's book. The chapter includes detailed checklists, case studies, and how-to steps for analyzing ROI for nonprofit technology projects. My presentation is based on Chapter. Tags: ROI. I presented on ROI and Nonprofit Technology.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2010

The green technology solutions chapter by Alex Shan and Joseph Khunaysir of Jolera , a strategic IT consulting company, is the part of the book dedicated to green IT. The chapter does have a very interesting discussion on the new age of network backups, and also creating a paperless of? ce with content management systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

My presentation is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's book. The chapter includes detailed checklists, case studies, and how-to steps for analyzing ROI for nonprofit technology projects. Tags: nten ROI. You can register here. I'm presenting on ROI and Nonprofit Technology on September 17th at 11:30 am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2010

Allison Fine and I have contributed some tips from The Networked Nonprofit chapter on fundraising. Tags: Fundraising Promotions. Over 7,000 people have downloaded the book (you have to fill out a form first) and the reviews have been glowing. A few of my favorite tips: Ignore your brand guidelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

There will also be six book signings at NTC and I've contributed a chapter or been an author of four of them! Tags: 10ntc. NONPROFIT tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Nonprofit Social Media Engagement. (co-author co-author with Janet Fouts) See you in Atlanta!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Tool Talk Wikis TechSoup's Online Event about Wikis has inspired a lot of wiki links showing up in the NPtech Tag stream ( here , here , and here ) TechSoup has switched to a wiki for its glossary and set up a wiki sandbox for the event which includes lots of other excellent wiki resources and examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

For example, how to deal with different physical environments in a chapter called "How to Work a Tough Room.". There is a chapter called "The Little Things That Pros Do" which is about the gadgets. Tags: powerpoint. It's also very funny. It covers topics that you don't usually come across in presentation books.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Due to the recent chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of our parent corporation, Advanta, we are unfortunately no longer continuing ideablob and bloblive. Tags: community issues challenges competitions shutdown socialmedia. Unbalanced “diversity&# - by focusing on just one platform, organizations limit the audiences they connect with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. Tags: training materials.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The Bay Area Chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network recently announced the winners of its 2010 Young Nonprofit Leader Awards , and TechSoup's own Kami Griffiths was one of the honorees. Check out the Surdna tag at TechSoup for Libraries for more information.). Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide News.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Learning across the network, particularly across chapters is important. Their chapters grow faster than internal staff can support them. I asked how they work effectively with chapters when they can't "control" the message or groups necessarily. Tags: facebook netaction network effectiveness scholar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The above presentation comes from the NYC chapter of NTEN’s 501 Tech Club. Tags: socialcontent storytelling wearemedia. This morning on Twitter, Farra, from Big Duck, pointed me to a guest blog post titled " What Story Are You Telling Your Donors, Where Are You Telling It ?"

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Because the difference isn’t in using the tools per se, we all have the same functionality to upload, tag, comment, etc. Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”. Tags: interview otherblogs issues net2thinktank. But the important difference is all about the formation of connections, or relationships.

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