Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. As he notes, the analysis can be helpful to him as a journalist and content curator to identify potential sources online. The notes are here. Think about your current work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This framework provides a holistic approach, encompassing various dimensions of a digital strategy, including audience engagement, content creation, and impact measurement. Whether it’s boosting engagement, streamlining content creation, or enhancing donor communications, clear objectives are crucial. Output as a table.”

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

To do this effectively, content strategy for digital collections is a necessary piece that is able to streamline the approach of how these institutions shape and expand their roles as modern resources. Enter content strategist as digital curator. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit.

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NetWits

MARCH 10, 2012

It got me thinking about how content is used by nonprofits to help them connect with the right audience online. In essence, Joe points out the fact that great content is the tool that moves hearts and inspire action online. What’s content marketing? Content marketing and your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Part of delivering instruction is being a good facilitation of people’s learning and there is no better way to learn how to improve your own technique than watching world class facilitators in action. I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.” Instead, content curation helps us keep focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When I get to participate in sessions that are focused on content that I’m intensely interested in AND are well designed and facilitated, it creates the perfect storm for learning in my field and the trade craft of facilitation. It was expertly facilitated by Allison Lin and Odin Zackman. Did you do it differently?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer? One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone. And, what do you actually apply?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. This is where content that breaks down the practice into small steps is very useful to participants. She was brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 18, 2023

Personalization is becoming more context-aware, taking into account factors such as location, device type, time of day, and user intent to deliver relevant and customized content. Contextual personalization. Hyper-personalization. Privacy-conscious personalization. Social media integration. Personalization for member retention and loyalty.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 2, 2022

Using the right tools and techniques makes it easy to get more out of your association’s online community. . You just need the right tools and techniques in place to take it to the next level. . Here’s how Nimble Communities can help you take your online community to the next level. Attract and engage members.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

Instagram is all about visual content, meaning you’ll need a new approach to use the site effectively. You’ll also be able to add a special Donation sticker to Stories and Live videos and a “Donate”button to your profile, which will let users go directly from your content to a donation page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Step 1: Conduct a Content Inventory and Site Audit. A content inventory is a list of all the content on your site. A comprehensive web content inventory lists pages, images, documents, and applications on a spreadsheet. An inventory and audit will help you make decisions on: Content to be removed.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing content also needs to consistently tie back to your cause and the work you do. Inbound marketing often help you draw people in through content such as: blogs, videos, social media, SEO, and other organic marketing channels. However, marketing for nonprofits can come with its difficulties.

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Byte Technology

JULY 16, 2021

This technique combines frequently used images into one image file, thus reducing the number of HTTP demands needed to download the web page. . Try a Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN is a system that delivers websites and other website content using distributed servers. Add images into CSS Sprites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I was honored to write a feature article in the recent issue of the NTEN journal called “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Reducing Information Overload.” What tools are you using for content curation? You can register for the webinar here. And, of course, I’ll also cover the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

According to a recent survey by OTX , 43% of respondents say they have shared content on social media sites because it is funny. Nonprofit technology professionals know how to converts laughs to donations and devoted an entire session to sharing tips, techniques, and examples during a NTEN conference.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Harriet’s going to explain how APA used convincing techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry. Unique web and mobile engagement strategies have empowered the Turnaround Management Association to engage members with dynamic experiences and personalized content at all stages of their professional journey.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Content is at the heart of how your constituents engage online. But getting top-notch quality and performance from content isn’t always easy. Nyleva Corley, principal user experience designer at Blackbaud, talks all about how to get the most from your content on today’s episode. How much content is being processed daily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content. Mindmap by Jane Genovese.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Make full use of your blog content. Make full use of your blog content. In the era of virtual fundraising, content is king. Digital content, including blog posts, videos, interviews, and constituent stories, will help to: Engage supporters and keep your organization on their minds. Ensure your site is easy to maintain.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Our goal for these videos has always been to reach younger audiences and those with a preference for video content, as well as captivate our existing followers on social media. But they also bring attention to our entire social platform’s content. This way, you only need to prepare once to film a few pieces of content.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. Becoming "content fried" is a potential hazard for content curators, and that can get in the way of being efficient. Have any techniques to add to this list? By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

E-Book #2: Feeding the Content Beast. The book has useful content curation tips, but what really reasonated was this one: Organize based on audience needs. Make sure that you present your curated content using categorization and hierarchy that’s as useful to your audience as it is to you. Happy Friday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

(Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). Content Assets: Organizing and Archiving Tools.

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

Here’s how to apply those same techniques to your nonprofit omni-channel fundraising at year-end. This means now you’re probably getting email targeting you with more content and reminders about the item you were looking for. Digital ads For example, say you’re interested in buying a TV, or a really cool new toy for your children.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Automated marketing: With AI-powered marketing automation tools, you can automate routine activities, such as email campaigns, social media scheduling, and content creation, to save your team time during the busy fundraising season. Define what exactly AI will and will not be used for. Conduct staff training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network. It is a great technique to keep up with your field.

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See3

APRIL 9, 2024

By putting together a comprehensive profile of your audience, your nonprofit is better able to create personalized content that speaks to your audience and drives them to action. Though our conversation, we learned three pivotal things that a nonprofit should consider when developing their own content strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm. And, if you want to dive deeper into content marketing for nonprofits, go subscribe to Kivi Leroux Miller’s blog. If you are new to the concept of an editorial calendar, it is a user-friendly tool for mapping relevant, compelling content to your media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

Post consistent content that your audience loves and your social media will be successful. But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test.

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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2013

Content delivery in the future will happen less and less through a traditional web browser and you need to prepare now. By now, you may be tired of hearing about how important it is to think about “mobile”. For one thing, it’s a huge topic. Do you need to think about mobile marketing? SMS fundraising? The answer is, of course, “Yes.”

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

They should be able to: Suggest discussion group topics and content?. Content strategy ?. Plan to give your members access to this type of content right off the bat to make them feel part of a group and benefit them professionally. Content calendar ?. Unacceptable content, such as obscene messages and materials? ? .

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