Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Note from Beth: Last spring, I had the pleasure of meeting Ashley Boyd,Campaign Director, for MomsRising.org who told me about Joyful Funerals. Ashley and her colleague Anita – as well as the whole team at Momsrising does a fantastic job of reflecting after each campaign on how it could be improved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Flickr photo by Panacheart. Mary Manuel is the Managing Director of the McKay Foundation, which funds progressive civic engagement infrastructure nationally and in the western states. Guest post by Mary Manuel. Movement: “A collection of persons or groups who come together around a common concern.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case. When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Flickr Image – ImageGroup. 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. In large part, this focuses on setting policies and creating structures to support and manage teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we highlight the work of the Sunlight Foundation and its executive director, Ellen Miller. Vince Stehle is a philanthropic consultant and a member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. Too often I hear nonprofit communicators and techies bemoan the stats that their Executive Directors and boards want them to track – mostly follower counts and ‘Likes’. If you’ve been handling your nonprofit’s social media for a while then you know what a sticky wicket measurement can be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Most nonprofits implore: “Just fund a development director position for us, and it will pay for itself in a year, enabling us not just to survive but to thrive.” The best work is embraced by a reflective board and staff leaders alike, and is embedded in the organization’s culture and business model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Chris Hughes brought in Kirsten Titus as Managing director of Jumo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

He shared some thoughts about an organisational presence on Facebook in the comments on a post I wrote last week on Facebook pages/ads and wanted to elevate it from comments so we might reflect a bit further. I've tried two other Flickr to Facebook apps but they are glitchy and also don't integrate with your Facebook photos album.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

I've been reflecting on the ideas shared at a panel called " Why Corporate Social Media Marketing Fails and How To Fix It " presented at the Web2.0 Flickr Photo by MR+G. Flickr Photo by Colmmacc. Photo by Stitch. Expo by Peter Kim , Charlene Li , and Jeremiah Owyang. How can I make my campaigns work? THE TOWER. . The downside?

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr: kool_skatkat Last month, NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, posted a provocative article on our blog: " Rebranding the Accidental Techie." The organization could not manage either of those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Paull Young, Director of Digital at charity: water, describes the strategy this way: “We are trying to build a movement of passionate people who are going to form a relationship with us for years…. How can your organization apply this? We 100% focus on word-of-mouth marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

If your museum has many voices in the real world, you will most powerfully and honestly convey yourself virtually if you can reflect the diversity of your institution. The marketing director for a mid-size science museum, Jeff, recently showed me a YouTube channel he’d discovered which was created by a camp staff member at the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

YouTube, the popular online video-sharing site, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, for instance, include social networking. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." " His post sparked some comments about social media burnout and reflections from the US perspective.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. With 10-20 hours per week, become a community director. You'll see all the mentions of you in recent blog posts. If something looks interesting, click through and read the post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2012

Flickr Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography. During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. These are here: Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops.

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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. This is similar to the issue many museums deal with of whether to engage in established social spaces like Flickr, Youtube, etc. or to start their own.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2008

The top question museum directors ask about online initiatives, especially those in social media, is "can you demonstrate that it will bring more ticket-buying people to the museum?" You come to the museum, and THEN you post your photo in the Flickr group. It's a very hard question to answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Katrin Verclas, who was named Executive Director of N-TEN in June, has been on cross-country tour over the summer meeting with members of the N-TEN community at meet-ups. She shares her reflections on what she heard and visions for the field on the N-TEN blog. And finally, a belated Happy Birthday to Britt Bravo and her blog.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Haji initially stayed on, as Convios president, but stepped down from that role last month, although he remains a member of Convios board of directors. The successful-but-humble thirtysomething entrepreneur has not yet revealed what he plans to do next in his career. And what are the major changes you have witnessed in those years?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Haji initially stayed on, as Convios president, but stepped down from that role last month, although he remains a member of Convios board of directors. The successful-but-humble thirtysomething entrepreneur has not yet revealed what he plans to do next in his career. And what are the major changes you have witnessed in those years?

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Thing is, once you have paid the admin, the cash value of the flickr ‘donation’ barely makes it worthwhile – even for the 5 account max per charity. As far as ‘buzz director’ goes… I do need to unpick what I mean a little more (a *lot* more). Totally agree with the flickr one.

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