Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Dave's most recent critical friend post offers some thoughts about community. mmm… community.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In a departure from its usual format, the August session of the San Francisco Online Community Meetup was an open forum. Community manager members were invited to ask their most pressing questions and share their best practices. What’s the difference between managing online community, customer service, and social media?

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Email is the annoying little brother of online communities: pesky, poking, insistent. But online communities are just one of millions of destinations competing for your community members' attention. When planned and well-written, emails are effective at gently nudging people back to your community. That's so 1995.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

NTEN is looking for technology, community, and event lovers to join us in our work serving the nonprofit technology sector. Community Engagement Manager NTEN seeks a community-focused individual with a love for technology, social data, and building community to join NTEN’s Membership team.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Keep doing the offline stuff for the offline people! " E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis … – "The truth is that everyone is, indeed, a community facilitator / manager nowadays, as you saw in a recent blog entry where I referenced Gautam’s comments along these very same lines.

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DipJar

JUNE 23, 2022

PITTSBURGH, June 23, 2022 – DipJar, a giving technology platform, today announced the Early Access release of DipJar Online, which will enable nonprofit organizations to create goal-driven, campaign-based fundraising initiatives that facilitate multi-channel donor engagement. New and existing customers can sign up for early access here. “By

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Community Map. Why : Why map your community?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2022

Community fundraising and events were abruptly redirected online. This journey has continued: The initial pandemic scramble of moving offline events online evolved into recognizing data and digital as central to fundraising strategy and success. Major donor and corporate engagements turned virtual overnight.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

NTEN is looking for technology, community, and event lovers to join us in our work serving the nonprofit technology sector. Community Engagement Manager NTEN seeks a community-focused individual with a love for technology, social data, and building community to join NTEN’s Membership team.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. They build up an online and offline community, create great projects, and then ask the community to fund them through donations.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

By sending the right donor communications and reaching your target audience where they are, you’ll be able to successfully promote your event and expand your nonprofit’s reach. Your thank-yous should also explain how their donations will make a difference in your mission and the community you serve.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. Many of them were really driven by the community. The site was hosted on [link] , which used a URL and design that supported a strong sense of community around the campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Or they can be maps of networks of organizations and communities. You need to let them know why you are making the introduction and this can be done online or offline. These can be done offline and online.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

Providing a space for online community-building. Personalizing communications for each member. A member portal encourages community-building. Providing a space for online community building. An online space facilitates member engagement and improves the overall experience. Hosting events that members value.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. The Sun Sets on 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Edutopia , a project of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is an online web site that creates and curates content that is distributed through mobile, social media, video, and offline channels. They also have a robust online community. The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

The book’s co-authors, Beth Kanter and KD Paine will facilitate an updated of the original poetry-slam session with the same four nonprofit leaders about they have used networked strategies and measurement to improve results and transform failure into success. New Radical Online Community: [link] coordinated by Debra Askanese.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Every month, a group called #4Change organizes open & lively conversations about how web-connected communities and our use of social media tools are helping to create change in the world. Starting the Conversations: Here are some questions to consider: How does online discussion and networking connect with and support offline action?

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Diverse Goals. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Raising funds. Building local chapters.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What is it about the health community that’s different? For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Feedback to presentation: would want to involve staff and services in the offline local events to share their experiences, too.

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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). It covers human, organizational, and technical points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Having a way to communicate with them regularly is essential, both leading up to the Giving Day and especially during the day itself. Take Advantage of Creative Generosity: This is good community management practice. Click to Download. While it may be the dog days of August, GivingTuesday 2014 kicks off on December 4th.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

Yesterday, I checked out the session “Community organizing and online organizing: can they go together?” The session covered interesting points on the debate between community and online organizers and ways to overcome the resistance within an organization. In many cases, yes, but the process is very different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. community will look like, or how it will change the face of the non-profit web. community will look like, or how it will change the face of the non-profit web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

At SXSW, Sophie Kelly, CEO of The Barbarian Group, facilitated a discussion about the benefits and challenges of digital currency with Roya Mahboob, co-founder of Digital Citizen Fund, and Joyce Kim, executive director of Stellar. >>Read

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The basics of it include strong media relations efforts, a media trade program, strategic communications through our own robust channels and active outreach to organizations. For us, our offline activities are as important as online efforts. PadillaCRT has led our earned media strategies since we launched GiveMN in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Third C: Community.

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