Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. For 2017, we be launching an online site that includes the content and facilitator guides so that any nonprofit or trainer can provide leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

They also look at qualitative data, including doing a content analysis of their member feedback. They also know that in order a growth rate in members, it takes reach and engagement through social channels so they also track referral traffic and engagement metrics.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. Managing the conversation includes guiding it to stay on topic as well as providing thought- and conversation-provoking content. So we asked. When it comes to understanding your communities behavior, data is your best asset.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

And while his project doesn't have a lot of depth in terms of content or meaning, it's a signal for what else is possible. I see this happening in the overflowing visitor comments on the walls of the Oakland Museum of California, the lines snaking through the Minneapolis Institute of Art to submit to Foot in the Door --so many places.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). It might be a membership program in which the member can grow with the institution not via donor levels but via deeper content experiences with other members. On Wednesday, it's my birthday. In the interview, we talk about the idea of Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

While the staff who led the project cheerfully commented that they didn't know what they were doing when they started, the process they ended up with bears remarkable similarity to other successful co-creative efforts , like the Wing Luke Asian Museum's community exhibition process or the Oakland Museum's Days of the Dead project.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Killer content. People lining the street on the Tuesday afternoon when the boards arrived from the Port of Oakland, cheering as the crates came off the truck. When you open the path, people flood in. You open the potential for something more. But a bridge to nowhere is quickly abandoned. Substantive programming. Muscle and bone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. With snacks!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. CH: Our headquarters office here in Oakland is staffed entirely by volunteers, and I always like people to know that of all of the foundation dollars, and donations and grant money that comes in, I divert 94% of it to our in-country operations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

If life is a chessboard, content is still king. He is talking about on the Web, in terms of content, but I think that also, it works in terms of life. I often say that, "Collaboration is queen." It's the most important, but collaboration is queen, and it's the most powerful. That said, collaboration is always; it's very tricky.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The inaugural class of diverse and passionate teens, hailing from all over California, was trained in how to produce shareable video, create social media content, write compelling blog posts, and even take their outreach offline, speaking in person in their community.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Wes Holing, TechSoup's web content developer, predicts that the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation 's new program, called Let's Encrypt , will literally make the entire web more secure. He recommends the Oakland-based charity Digital Detox and perhaps a stay at Campgrounded in the California redwoods. Just unconnect.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

By limiting artworks by size alone, Foot in the Door is open to a huge range of content and media. The diversity of content promotes comfortable dialogue about preferences. In Foot in the Door , the content is so wide-ranging that it was easy for people to talk about favorites.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Then, the magazine is like a curation of all the best that's out there on our newswire, on our pipeline of content. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. She can speak out. She can join the community and find resources and network.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

The content was serious, important, and deeply cared for. The visitors adopted the content and empowered the museum to go further. So if last week's core lesson was about supporting engaging discussion, this week's is about caring for visitors, and thinking of them as integral to the exhibition content or direction.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Donor-focused content. The Center does a fantastic job of streamlining their content and presenting it in a way that’s engaging, informative, and inviting, right from the homepage. For a site with so much content, the Center has maintained strong organization made possible by their comprehensive (yet clear) top navbar.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. Yet, the art world does not reflect that. I do art that can be very universal, to anyone." But, art is universal like that.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Whether for a campaign, an appeal, or an organization's main web presence, I think 2014 will see organizations focus their online content on specific actions or messages, pulling back from the clutter or information overload." " Beth Kanter. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

All 150 topics covered were visitor-nominated, and the resulting exhibition features their passionate stories alongside representative artifacts and additional content. On the web, via the MN150 wiki, you can view the winning (and non-winning) nominations and additional historical content provided by the museum.

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