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AUGUST 16, 2016

Learn to Share. This encourages people to share content, and increases the odds that your post will go viral quickly. One great technique of viral marketing is to take advantage of user generated content, which relies on your audience to create and share information for you. Know Your Users. Become a Fan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

Fortunately there’s help in the form of tools and techniques that make the whole process considerably less painful for the blogger. A go-to resource, the site is based on the idea of users sharing news and ideas and making them more or less popular via a voting feature. Comment Sections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas. Conferences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Trust me. They want to connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly. If you want engagement on social media channels, identify good conversation starters that are relevant to your audience, will ignite their passion or nostalgia about the subject matter. To share on Twitter? 4. Make it Buzzworthy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Here are the ones we featured: It’s (not) only a napkin: Share your name. Share your name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. Content curation is not about sharing links as you find them. Content curation is not about sharing links as you find them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas. Another common technique that many nonprofits use to way to build relationships is to acknowledge and celebrate staff’s birthdays. Share your story in the comments. One area that was identified was how to build cross-department relationships.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! Parents report much more engagement and conversation with their kids at home, and this all leads to a stronger family unit! Using the techniques of storytelling for nonprofits can make a huge difference in the results of your fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. In fact, I discovered his post via Facebook where I left a comment on his note and followed the links to his blog post. His questions are: How can blog conversations foster a cloud and not just a hub and spokes effect?

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But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. I’m going to stop sharing those. – [Steven] Yeah. All right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with posting different types of content and engagement techniques on my Facebook Page this past month based on what the research says about increasing engagement. Share and you will be rewarded.” You are generous to your followers who notice and share their wisdom with you.” Rebecca Krause-Hardie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

You, of course, need a formal ladder of engagement or conversion funnel and need to be tracking conversions against what your ultimate definition of success is. One of the participants asked, “So how do you do this with your metrics program?” ” Kevin came up and gave a mini-lesson on how to use this technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

Shared on Google + by Abid Shaikh. Dave Gray Illustration Shared Through Google +. I try to find well-connected, subject experts who read deep in a topic and share the best stuff. 2 Learn: The learning happens through interacting and commenting.

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MARCH 30, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The decision matrix in below will help you decide which photos to share and how."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Stay tuned for more … Sharing Some Facebook Friday Insights. Techniques for More Engagement. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. What about a certain post created that big conversation. Even better than the numbers was the knowledge nuggets shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Through lively sharing and discussion we will dive into the art of placing small bets or affordable losses that can lead to innovation. I had the pleasure of designing this session with Will Coley – who interviewed the best content curators in the world and get them share their best practices. Will I see you at the 13NTC?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. Jillaine's post has sparked quite an interesting conversation in the comments. " we had a few months ago.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Non-pledge close: For those calls that don’t end in success, it’s important to help close the conversation gracefully to maintain the relationship with the donor. At this time on a Sunday, most donors will be finished with their weekend errands and are likely available for a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations. Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content. So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening.

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to learn their most effective tips and techniques for creating, managing, and sustaining a volunteer program that’s equally meaningful for their nonprofit and participating volunteers. Have a conversation with them about what they want to do and what they feel capable of doing. scroll down to learn more about them!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.) The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Peer: Shared knowledge and experiential learning that benefits from interaction between participants. Full group activity: Provide feedback and ideas to a shared virtual chat space both before, during, and after live webinar. Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

We can respond, participate in a conversation, build relationships with others, debunk a rumor or correct misinformation, help someone out, and much more. Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. Please start asking in the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here’s some best practices for sharing results. Share an example of your experiment in the comments. You have a vision and then you creates a hypothesis and you collect data to prove it right or wrong. Don’t Over Test: Keep it simple and don’t over do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post. What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

(You can get a discount of $20 off the registration by entering the code “Beth” when you sign up ). This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic. Friction is a demonstration of care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? And you shared them! This requires engaging in a conversation.

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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Such as comments fields, Twitter interactions, or in-platform social profiles). Old comment sections on previous learning exercises are perfect fodder to experiment with social learning. This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique. Share it socially with your learning base. What components are you hoping to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Urges nonprofits to focus on sharing and using basic information about who they are, what they’re doing and what’s happening, before tackling big data. We came up with the term “Ambient” data to describe unstructured data out that is generated through social media channels – tweets, status updates, comments, etc.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 17, 2017

I’d love to hear your questions and comments. Add your questions to the comments here. What a Board is For - how trustees help you go beyond your limits Two Prioritization Techniques We Used to Negotiate a Great Lease - how can you decide collectively what you value most? You can join the conversation here.

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