Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

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Care2

OCTOBER 26, 2011

What we’ve seen across all organizations, regardless of size, is that digital teams—their structure, leadership, and how they are affected by the culture of the institutions where they work—are the biggest predictor of online effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Mention the word “network” to most people and their reactions tend to sway between these two polar extremes. It’s either “crowdsourcing is the answer to everything” –or it’s a complaint that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are just “too full of chatter.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is very difficult to talk in social networks with people who think the opposite of you.” Hanafi, AhmEd Hamaza, Chema Gargouri, and Nada Hamzeh who I had the pleasure of working with closely on the e-mediat project shared their ideas – especially a sense that training is so important to building networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Some topics of interest for me include: social media measurement, ROI, networked learning, information overload and mindfulness, Civil Society 2.0, networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. 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 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

The new structure will cut down on noise and allow for more interactive networking and socializing. They will be social networking sessions with like-minded people, with no formal agenda or takeaways. Finally, there will be a couple of changes to the conference pricing structure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods. We’re learning new ways to create and sustain social value. The Benetech Truths define our culture and focus our efforts on how we operate. copyright law.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. A great fundraising plan is one that both serves as a blueprint, but also offers this information through the lens of your nonprofit’s culture, mission, and values from beginning to end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here’s a couple of themes that come up from a few of these nonprofit CEOs: Looking at Aggregate Professional Networks of People in the Organization: I’ve been hearing Meg Garlinghouse of LinkedIn talk about “filling structural holes” in networks and shared a couple of those ideas.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The focus was around the ROI: how to think of the value of social media, the things you need before starting any campaign, and how to measure, analyze and sell campaigns. The one negative thing I have to say is that the session seemed to lack a coherent structure and while much was discussed it's hard to tie it together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. It is important to understand that social media is just one channel, primarily for engagement and connection tactics, but organizations will need to use other channels like email.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Trying to create a culture that encourages commenter to commenter interactions through your own responses in the comments section--maybe by drawing the attention of one commenter to the thoughts of another. This conversation is reminding of one that I had on this blog or rather across several blogs about " cross-blog conversation."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

Danah Boyd One issue came up over the fact that women don't network. Actually, women are traditionally the maintainers of domestic social networks. They tend to network more than men. The gender difference concerns the style of networking. My argument here is that we need to pay attention to the network structures.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Summary: Followed by a more detailed explanation. Situation : We are living in a time of a major shift in culture. As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. This isn’t just a change in youth culture. It’s a change that affects everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

Organizational Network Analysis). The illustration above comes from a book by Rob Cross called " Driving Results Through Social Networks " which is about how to leverage informal networks within your organization or cross-organizational teams. . Source: Rob Cross, What is ONA? Ah, a delicious new word: WIREARCHY . "

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In this article, we will explore how to manage these challenges from a technology standpoint, including publishing metrics, establishing structure, removing barriers and offering training. The web has become social. We have been working through this cultural shift at the YMCA of Metro Chicago over the last few years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

It is generated partly from the story, and the social network that enables that story to be told. And it is generated partly by social cues. And where are you likely to fine more personally relevant social cues than embedded in a network of your closest friends and contemporaries? Where does motivation come from?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Some people want the in-person events, some people want to connect on social networks, and some 1stfans do both. Since this membership is based in the social networks, we are going to be watching carefully as that landscape changes (and it will). As Shelley said, “everyone’s got a $20 in their pocket.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

He talks about the "Cloud" a word to describe how we're all more closely connected through social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and etc. With very few exceptions, organizations are structured along hierarchical lines. I think he's talk about culture change. (3) Here are the bits that resonated with me.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Culturally specific communication is the second thing. So always consider what are some aspects of the culture you’re working with. So, for example, is it a hierarchical culture? Is it a culture that, you know, respects elders a lot? people from other cultures, you can just say, “Hi. ” Right?

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Jen introduced Causes' Birthday Wish feature as the first example of how the Causes community can use social structures to create value. Strengths of the Causes Network. Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. An Example of Causes: Birthday Wish.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The reward for participants of having your contribution displayed is fairly and clearly structured. It's also easy for participants to promote their posts by sharing them on social networks and via email. Participants only get 24 hours of fame, but they know exactly when they are. It showcases diverse voices.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online social networks in general? For example: Mobile devices?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online social networks in general? For example: Mobile devices?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2017

Your supporters are inspired to make an impact and bring their social networks, stories and ideas to the table. However, with the growing democratization of social change, the digital tactics we’ve come to know and rely on may not continue to gain the same traction. People want to go big in 2017!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Just in some really subtle ways that only maybe web designers can really appreciate, change the structure of how people are lead through that experience so that they can more easily take action and more easily become involved. In a lot of ways, conservatives built their base starting on the real cultural and not necessarily political level.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Citizen movements play an enormous role in leading social change. Your supporters are inspired to make an impact and bring their social networks, stories, and ideas to the table. Peer driven engagement is key to scaling change. It’s an expression of an open society and medium of true democracy.

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