Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Test your messages – use different messages and calls to action, track trends and iterate the most effective techniques. Integrate – as in, integrate social media with other channels such as email, direct mail, web content and offline activity to maximize success. Leave a comment or @ jordanv me on Twitter to share!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. I spend a majority of my time listening and responding to questions, commenting on blogs, and tracking NWF's mentions and various programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. 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.”

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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

AUGUST 21, 2007

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. " I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally. re doing offline. The PBS group is a good example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

" Steve and I exchanged a quick comments about online facilitation practice and community design in community blogs. We talked further about the techniques for adding more s to the conversation and whether or not tags could help thread or engage more people. It covers human, organizational, and technical points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

One of the approaches I've been thinking about lately is how professional learning through social media channels can be put into practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. Using social media is an enhancement to your offline professional networking and relationship building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. grist.org has created an engagement index based on commenting, sharing, and clicks – what people are doing with their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I especially liked this quote from Reuters Chief Executive, Tom Glocer: The technique (Live blogging) finally seems to have caught on in Davos. Guess you have to send a comment! I think it is how do we use our social media tools to extend the conversation and bring in other s both online and offline. I noticed this first at TED.

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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. Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert. The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I appointed two Twitter advocates who live Tweeted the discussion and also verbalized questions and comments from Twitter, providing a link between online and offline. These boiled to do: Lack of strategy, capacity issues, adoption issues, and lack of measurement techniques and approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Click to see the larger image. By the end of the conference, the total had climbed to $3,774.

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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. That way, I could have been preparing the content offline and uploaded later. These are in no particular order!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

into the chat line -If you have a comment or observation type ! It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. So, I read it with this question in mind: What techniques can be applied or adapted to Second Life facilitation or virtual world interface facilitation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Online/Offline and Open/Closed Content A story in CIO talks about how the Internet has boosted employee productivity and points to Pew Research that shows that the boundary that existed in people??? bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

While direct mail is often thought of as an old-school outreach technique, it can also appeal to younger audiences like. Even these digital-savvy individuals need a screen break from time to time, and direct mail can provide the perfect opportunity for offline connections. . millennials. News & World Report.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. Q: How do we get past our fear of negative comments possibly being posted about the organization from activists etc.? It seems like reviewing all posts and not posting those comments would defeat the purpose.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

While direct mail is often thought of as an old-school outreach technique, it can also appeal to younger audiences like millennials. Even these digital-savvy individuals need a screen break from time to time, and direct mail can provide the perfect opportunity for offline connections. Lastly, it’s never too late to try something new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

These can be a brief and simple reminder about civility and respect and deleting in appropriate comments. Promote Facebook through other channels online and offline. Always be commenting. ABC: Always Be Commenting ” on your Facebook page. You need to comment quickly, often, and respond to everyone.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2020

At OneCause, we specialize in supporting nonprofit charity auctions both on- and offline. Then, encourage plenty of clicks, comments, and shares by getting your followers involved, too. Peer-to-peer fundraising and marketing techniques have quickly become a staple of the nonprofit world. Leverage social media promotion.

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Bloomerang

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. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. I love that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect? Remember, social media can also be used to connect people to offline actions and events. Dealing with negative comments. Your initial experiments will be designed around trying out the tools and techniques. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments along the way. If they give online, and again, obviously, a lot of direct mail is going to get people online, but it’s still about 12% of donors that are going online, so a lot of money still comes in offline. We love for these sessions to be interactive.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

16 Comments | by Share Article in Direct Mail , Online Fundraising Reader Comments (16) Mal - First, really enjoyed your "ask the expert" conference call with NTEN a few weeks ago. June 4, 2009 | Ted Grigg Mal - I generally agree with your comments. Think about it. June 3, 2009 | Ed Well said Mal. Stop fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

It’s hard to find funders who will fund a risky idea – they usually want case studies an proven techniques. Instead, we used the conference hashtag and asked people to tweet their comments and questions. I would have added some offline audience interaction. Holly Ross was moderating the stream and captured the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

I particularly like the advice about how to use the comments for refining your point, a sort of thinking outloud and "Correct English be-damned" point. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there.

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