Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

When doing interactive sessions, you also have to give a nod to the introverts in the room who don’t always process well by having a conversation with someone they don’t know. Overnight Reflection. What I think is the magic is the use of “overnight reflection.” Then we opened up for discussion.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. We adapted.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. It is voiced or expressed outwardly in society in some way. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Learning, we do naturally.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 69

Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. Content strategy reframes a collection by creating an overarching structure that defines how its content is organized, positioned, and made relevant. Art, artifacts, books, and manuscripts are all documents of human innovation, thinking, and activity.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here! Learn more at WeRaiseTheRoots.com ! Learn more at Facturly.com !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. The New Social Economy. I want to control the communication between staff and board.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Shireen did a fabulous job of bringing in their voices. Wendy Harman from the Red Cross.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Conversions. On social media, a conversion might be a donation, a sign-up for a newsletter, or attendance at an event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) At the ending "All Star" panel, there was a moderated conversation with 7 luminaries, including Ami Dar and Steve Wright.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace – fast paced and heavy workloads – makes it nearly impossible to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it. For decades, even centuries, our view of leadership has been defined by top-down, hierarchical structures.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Choose useful metrics that track things like your engagement, impressions, reach, referrals, and conversion rates. You should also work to develop your brand’s voice and language across your social media profiles. The best way to determine if your goals are SMART is to figure out how you’ll measure your success.

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Social Media Strategy Media Donor 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Of course, changing yourself requires a certain level of self-reflection. Now, I’m not an expert in throwing open the doors, but just one voice, trying to make this happen. I loved how she brought up so many issues, often combining structural issues with the related effects. These conversations are hard. They take time.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Their ideas were delightful, and their contributions shifted the conversation about what family-friendly really looks like.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If your nonprofit has made any large-scale changes, your team should sit down and assess whether your mission statement still accurately reflects your work. Conversely, what would happen to your community without your nonprofit’s presence? Be sure to use active voice and descriptive language. Who Do You Serve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While most of the instruction was done as a full group, we also wanted to allow some less structured time for people to self-organize into small groups and get hands-on time at their own pace and specific questions answers. 3) Conversations is Easier To Translate Than Reading. But one thing that I just loved was our group photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

I'm just back from the red eye and really tired - and wanted to capture a few reflections about network effectiveness and resourcing. As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time! The World Cafe is structured as a 501-c3, but it is really a network. My Necklace/USB holder.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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People Community Video Podcast 78

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. It was a lovely evening that inspired a rich conversation. But then, As we all know, the world shut down.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), industry benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This approach would also create capacity for new voices and new ideas to be engaged in the environmental movement. A series of dinner parties would create space to bridge the personal and professional, build new relationships, and have conversations that we can’t have in other settings. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Ordinary Americans not formally affiliated with any organization or cause are rising up to make their voices heard. At ACS CAN, we’re seeing this newly inspired level of activity reflected in our offline recruitment as well. This year’s Women’s March and March For Science are just two examples of this incredible trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

Now comes the reflection on the process, the craft of screencasting. Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio. I got enough information to put together an outline and rough storyboard So, I had the overall structure for the 15 minute screencast.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. If someone asks you a question on Twitter, you can only respond with 140 characters.

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M+R

JUNE 7, 2023

While we push ourselves and our clients every day toward a more equitable future, we’re also continually evaluating our internal structures to determine how we can bring an equity-centered approach to all of our work. How can we leverage media interest to highlight underrepresented voices and perspectives in a way that isn’t exploitative?

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Guide Media Language Storytelling 73

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation. For this week, I’m re-posting Andrea Montiel de Shuman’s Medium post with permission.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Initially, after conversations with a lot of domestic workers, we realized that the women really wanted to have negotiation training. A lot of women reflected back to us that they felt oftentimes like the families would treat them as if they were a part of the family, so that then their work was in some ways made invisible.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

New voices energizing conversations. Over recent decades, the public conversation at our conference has evolved to address new developments in our field(s), including social entrepreneurship, social economy and all aspects of civil society, as well as to meet the needs of those who study and lead “the social sector.”

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. How we advance causes, how we share our voices, how we connect. Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques. Technology. How we live our lives.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. . ” And so after he got to about 25 conversations, he realized he needed a project manager.

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Community Video Slides Survey 78

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Full Transcript: Steven: You’ll hear a robot voice. Let’s keep the conversation going. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. And to be able to have those conversations separate and apart from making the decision, you want folks to be heard. Kishshana: Go ahead. Steven: All right, Kishshana. Steven: All right.

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Management Work Video Slides 90

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

And a good thing, too." --Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. I am glad this conversation is happening and that both museum professionals and local Santa Cruzans are engaged.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that’s what I’m going to do today, I’m going to try to cover a lot of ground but leave some time at the end for Q&A and conversation and all of that. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. So you get the point.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

These virtual, polyglot teams will devise experiences that are not hindered by the cultural predilections of any single institution, and hopefully, will reflect a more diverse, inclusive voice and design. How much structure is motivating and how much becomes a chore? Viva the distributed conversation!

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