Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. The definition of links or how you're connected is defined however you want. Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network. I feel strongly that the new definition of a social media expert is someone who has a smart network. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

I asked him about shooting techniques. It's part of my series of video blogging famous video bloggers on technique (so far have interviewed or captured them in action -- Nick Booth , Steve Garfield , and Robert Scoble ). In looking at all the photos in the stream from the conference, his photos are definitely some of the best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. I definitely anticipate further modifications to both the online and on-site versions as we explore different ideas and gather feedback accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. There is a comment in the post from Dan McQuillan who has been mulling over measurement of social media from the nonprofit perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Learning how to listen using a couple of social media tools and the active task of listening is something that can be easily learned in a few hours and if an organization invests 1-5 hours per week in this task it will definitely return value to strategy development. What are some advanced techniques for listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Almost as a model of how to deal with negative comments to a post , Jeremiah Owyang has invited his critic, David Charback, to write a guest post. There was a quote in the comments that said, "Some companies are just not quite ready for true ???transparency???, and by definition not quite ready for social media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

I personally really like any activism that includes individual expression like this (like www.sorryeverybody.com ) If someone gets out the crayons and makes a sign, they are definitely engaged in your cause. And, there was a protest against Target using that technique (holding signs) although it was not on flickr: [link].

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Seth Godin wrote an interesting blog post yesterday entitled “ The problem with non ” that has definitely sparked a bit of conversation. It's easy to buy more stamps and do more direct mail, scary to use a new technique…Please don't tell me it's about a lack of resources. Author: Jordan Viator. via @ ehrenfoss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

1 : Blogging Community/Community Blog - Basic Definitions This post was my reflection after taking a fabulous online workshop with Nancy White that included a link to Steve Shu's post and a question about "Can Community Blogs be facilitated?" If you've been following the conversation and want to say something, here's your chance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Many people left comments reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks, including James Wu from Acumen who graciously expanded his thoughts into this guest post. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Definitions Of Key Business Terms We talk about, read about and hear about "customers," "mission," and "customer value" all the time and perhaps sometimes we struggle with fully understanding the best definition of those terms. I like Peter F.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. So, ran a google analytics reports on visitors and there was definitely a rise on the day I gave the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We were luck to have Donna Norton from Momsrising share a presentation about their approach to integrated social media campaigns and success stories using a planning technique called “Layer Cake Strategy.” Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments. The jury is still out on how we will negotiate the relationship between events and casual visits when it comes to hours, pricing, and resource allocation—but this is something we will definitely keep exploring. It is incredibly rewarding work. I feel lucky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

How can I improve my live blogging technique and better integrate with personal networking? I'm also going to respond to all my comments/trackbacks and comment on the blogs that have linked to me. Eath is in New York and I'm definitely going to try to connect with her face-to-face. These are in no particular order!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions. Yes, one day was way too short and definitely small group interaction would also have been good, but there is next year! It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. In terms of the topic, here's all the post-conference posts: The Del.icio.us

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Point readers back to your website: Definitely provide a link, but also provide a reason. So give these tips a try -- and if you have other tips or techniques you use, Id love to hear about them. Sound off in the comments below! Be sure to limit copy to just the information the readers need. (No

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

The mobile expert and strategist explained how nonprofits can use cell phone technology to organize, mobilize, motivate and inspire through a delightful array of tech-savvy techniques. 1 Comment | by Share Article in Mobile Reader Comments (1) Thanks so much for this nice write-up, great summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. A wonderful side benefit is all of the new friends and colleagues I have met as a result of writing the blog and commenting on other blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

This way, people can comment on or start a discussion about a certain item directly within the document – both asynchronously or in real-time. Consider what tools and techniques, digital or otherwise, can be used to maximize their interaction with the in-room attendees.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. But one student commented, "A lot of people need therapy and can't afford it. While the group had planned for ways to invite anonymous participation, that didn't seem to be a concern for many contributors.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based YouTube has an incredibly diverse and engaged global community who not only post videos, but interact with each other through text comments, video responses, and messages. Our friend Colin Delany just reviewed the hand-held video camera FlipVideo Mino, at epolitics.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

Non-game social platforms like museums should use game design techniques to make these institutions more successful at supporting user happiness. As Elsa Bailey asked in the chat: "Don't cultural attitudes toward the definitions/descriptions of happiness come into play here? This is not an argument that is specific to museums.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based YouTube has an incredibly diverse and engaged global community who not only post videos, but interact with each other through text comments, video responses, and messages. Our friend Colin Delany just reviewed the hand-held video camera FlipVideo Mino, at epolitics.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you read along and have something to add, please share your comments. A: Asking once during the year is definitely not enough and asking once a month is probably too much. You can use a combination of an event, mail, and in-person requests, or other techniques. I grouped the questions by category, since many were similar.

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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. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. Look at the comments. Definitely working on a hold on my power. Schedule of hidden meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. The bot is more fun and engaging than most—full of animated gifs, puns, and witty comments about relativity and robots, even if they don’t match the question you asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

Daren is the Counsel for the Alliance for Justice which hosts “ Bolder Advocacy ” site which is the definitive and outstanding “what you can do and how you can do it legally” resource as as my colleague, Jon Stahl suggests.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2010

Sunday, August 8, 2010 Use A Board Of Advisors David Burkus often provides valuable comments to my various Blog postings, and hes a person who effectively uses a board of advisors, instead of mentors, to help him achieve success. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While there are many differences in nonprofit versus for-profit design, there are a lot of UX techniques we can borrow from one another. Most of our user research techniques are likely the same as what’s in any designer’s toolkit: surveys, interviews, analytics review, usability tests, etc. Borrowing For-profit UX.

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