Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

My colleague, Alexandra Samuel, wrote a provocative post on the HBR blog titled, “ Dear Colleague, Put Down Your Notebook ” where she makes an argument for switching to digital note taking tools like Evernote is more efficient than taking notes on paper. All digital? How do you take notes? Only paper and pencil?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. The Intersector Toolkit provides frameworks that reflect phases of the relationship and support conceptual design, monitoring program elements, and ongoing measurement of milestones or goals. Layer two begins with the implementation process. Recommendations.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

A tech-savvy team is essential for nonprofit organizations that want to thrive in the digital age. Digital Marketing, Outreach, & Fundraising Tech Skills Map — an interactive diagram of digital competencies for nonprofit roles (free but requires you to provide contact info). Or take advantage of free tools.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. " Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Six years later, it looks like Dd hasn't strayed far from its roots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. They also created network maps for each country as well sharing examples using online networks using technology tools. The workshop was a tango dance between English and Spanish — and it worked!

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

It’s the digital face of your organization and where many people interact with you for the first time. Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. Next, you need a site map. Pick the best domain name available and embrace it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 22, 2021

Firstly forgive yourself for feeling this way and recognize it’s a way of thinking, not a reflection of reality. You’ve mapped out the process and tried so hard that your abilities in your role will be more valued than those who put their feet up on the desk and switched off as soon as they got their promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is why it is important for leaders to encourage staff to reflect on their workflow processes and to encourage experimentation as described below. When staff are able to map out what the AI can do and what they can do, they get a view of their job role that they have never had before.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Thankfully, there are tools in place to help you map out a marketing strategy that fits your organization. One such industry expert is Rachel Clemens, Chief Marketing Officer of Mighty Citizen , a firm dedicated to transforming mission-driven organizations through branding, marketing, and digital communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. More recent books on these methods include Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo and Visual Meetings by David Sibbet (I took David Sibbet’s workshop on visual meeting facilitation and wrote up some reflections here.). But wait, paper???

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AccelEvents

MARCH 16, 2021

The planning stage is the perfect time to map out how your hybrid event will be used as part of your marketing strategy. Sit down with the hybrid event stakeholders and map out why you want to have this hybrid event. Don’t ignore digital marketing and shoot out a traditional press release if that doesn’t make sense for your brand.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

Far from the dense printed annual reports of the past, most organization’s reports are now fully digital, engaging, and data-driven. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps uses responsive, sophisticated data visualizations and maps to show how where we live matters to our health.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

For example, one purpose might be to support digital marketing campaigns. If less than 10% of your donor data includes email addresses, but digital marketing is a top priority for your organization, then you have a challenge to address. Below I will discuss a few more examples for you to consider. Are they trained?

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Rainforest Alliance is an incredibly diverse and connected organization, requiring symbiotic coordination between all of their people and departments working towards a common goal that reflects the complex landscapes the organization seeks to protect. . This process ultimately helps reduce risk and minimize interruptions to operations.

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Double the Donation

MARCH 28, 2021

Your mission statement should reflect a call to action and an anticipated result. You now have a voice that will stand out from the rest, and a road map to stay on course. . Click & Pledge helps nonprofits generate more impact with an all-in-one digital fundraising platform. Inspiration . Action-oriented.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Over the past two years, philanthropy has asked important questions about equitable access—access to adequate funding, access to digital tools, access to power. consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Evaluating your mission statement: Your company’s mission statement reflects its purpose and goals, and can even relate to some nonprofit causes. With your company’s executives backing the program, you’ll signal to employees that the program truly reflects the mission and goals of the company as a whole.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

Knowledge mapping: By working closely together, colleagues build an understanding of each person’s particular knowledge and skills. He makes the point: “Today, too many of us are fixated on digitally capturing our knowledge. We shouldn’t be so focused on externalizing what’s in our head in digital form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Kristen Taylor is the Digital Content/Community Manager and writes the blog. She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. .

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AccelEvents

MARCH 16, 2021

The planning stage is the perfect time to map out how your hybrid event will be used as part of your marketing strategy. Sit down with the hybrid event stakeholders and map out why you want to have this hybrid event. Don’t ignore digital marketing and shoot out a traditional press release if that doesn’t make sense for your brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

Last week was the first day of summer and it got me thinking about doing a digital detox. During my walk, I reflected on my participation last March in the annual National Day of Unplugging , a 24-hour digital detox when you don’t use technology, Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

We''ve been reading, reflecting, getting inspired, and learning a lot from all of you. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building , Lori Jacobwith. npfail Reflections and Call to Action from NTC Plenary on Failure , Beth Kanter. Reflections on NTC13 , Monica-Lisa Mills , 4Site. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

We''ve been reading, reflecting, getting inspired, and learning a lot from all of you. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building , Lori Jacobwith. npfail Reflections and Call to Action from NTC Plenary on Failure , Beth Kanter. Reflections on NTC13 , Monica-Lisa Mills , 4Site. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Highlights DoGooder Video Awards announced , Maddie Grant NTC 2011 Science Fair shines light on new nonprofit technologies , Andrea Lum NTC Plenary, Dan Heath, Flip the Switch , Beth Kanter Taking the time to analyze success , Nicole Wallace Session Blog Posts 11NTC and nonprofit technology mapping resources , Jeremy Heffner Accidental Technologist (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Having this network map on the wall during the whole training, let us as the trainers acknowledge the expertise and knowledge in the room.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. We view the new year as a period of both reflection and preparation for what’s to come. These templates come with a number of tips that we’ve pulled together to help you through the process of planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. The Digital Operations Center is one response to this scaling challenge. We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Deborah Elizabeth Finn reflects on her key takeaways from two "Networked Nonprofit" book events and expands on the statement "Everything you feared has already happened" when it comes to nonprofits and the social web. We love Geo Locating and Mapping! I know many of you have tackled this for your organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Here's one way you might celebrate. Take Breaks.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to AccuData’s guide to digital advertising , social media is not only a popular platform for your supporters, but it is the new frontier of nonprofit marketing. . That’s because your site is a direct reflection of your brand. Now that you know who your target audience is, consider where they spend the most time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. We created a network map. The debriefing question encouraged us to reflect on points of connection and reciprocity. Each person introduced their: “Five Things You Should Know About Me&# for this project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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