Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What makes a good influencer strategy? Also, it is a good illustration of how engagement might lead to butts in seats, the holy grail of performing arts centers marketing directors. They found some influencers who they cultivated. A big topic of discussion was influencer strategies. It's not all about numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we highlight the work of the Sunlight Foundation and its executive director, Ellen Miller. Its ruling on the Citizens United campaign finance case earlier this year has overturned a century of jurisprudence on the appropriate limits of corporate influence in elections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

It should also define an organization's value system. Here's the definition: "A Social Media Marketing Compass points a brand in a physical and experiential director to genuinely and effectively connect with customers, peers, influencers, and where they interact and seek guidance online.". Tags: promotion.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You now have a deep understanding and chart of the kinds of engagement for all your community groups, but you always have very high level information you can easily share with your director or other key staff that identifies a group with the core goal for engagement and platform/s where it takes place. How do you know an “influencer?&#.

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APRIL 4, 2012

You can follow what’s happening on Twitter by searching for the #12NTC hash tag. What is Social Influencer REALLY Worth? Disclosure: I serve on the board of directors of NTEN. NTEN is back in San Francisco and the NTC conference is once again sold out. If you can’t attend in person, then please check out NTC Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What makes a good influencer strategy? Also, it is a good illustration of how engagement might lead to butts in seats, the holy grail of performing arts centers marketing directors. They found some influencers who they cultivated. A big topic of discussion was influencer strategies. It's not all about numbers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

NPLive featured guest experts Ritu Sharma , founder and executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits , and Dawn Andreas , marketing program manager at Eventbrite. Social media also makes it possible for influencers to share that they are going and sway others into joining them. Make it Social. When to Send Invitations?

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MARCH 3, 2011

By Carie Lewis, Director of Emerging Media, Online Communications, Humane Society of the United States Listening is the first step in social media. What kind of influence do they have – how many followers do they have, what kind of people are following them? Are they a known detractor or troll? Identify the tone. Are they annoyed?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

"We were honored to lend a hand in developing a site for this historic data release," said Andrew Cohen, Managing Director at Forum One. Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. The data and content were provided by policy staff at the University of Wisconsin with support from Burness Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The first step is mapping your network so you understand the connections – hubs and influencers. Miriam Brosseau is the Associate Director of Network Initiatives at The Jewish Education Project and Darim Online. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What makes a good influencer strategy? Also, it is a good illustration of how engagement might lead to butts in seats, the holy grail of performing arts centers marketing directors. They found some influencers who they cultivated. A big topic of discussion was influencer strategies. It's not all about numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

Identify Influencers Inside Who Are With You: Maybe your executive director is very skeptical and everyone is terrified to even bring up the “S&# word. Identify people in your organization who are open to social media and have influence. Think of social media adoption as an internal social change process.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Speakers included Pradeep Ramamurthy , the National Security Council's Senior Director for Global Engagement and Farouk Shami , a Palestinian-American businessman, who founded a large Houston-based company that produces hair-care and spa products. Tags: Influence Events Collaboration Communication Events Government.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

One of the biggest issues that surfaced at the IT Directors Affinity Group at NTC on Thursday was that many nonprofit employees are a hard sell when it comes to new technology. So today's Articulating Tech: How to Win Friends and Influence Luddites turned out to be a pretty fitting followup session for that discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. We were welcomed by directors of two partner organizations, Connie Wolf, Director and CEO for the Contemporary Jewish Museum and Brad Erikson, Executive Director, Theatre Bay Area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. They discovered a group of influencers won Twitter who were passionate fans of the company and have since enlisted them to spread the word. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

that fits certain requirements is a “private foundation,” meaning they have a principal fund managed by their own trustees or directors. By 1980, the nonprofit sector was being referred to as the “third sector,” and it was influencing the business world. This gave them greater voice in the government. Don’t be afraid of Uncle Sam.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here’s one near the top of the search results: Hardy Jones, executive director of BlueVoice.org. Tags: Influence Audience Research Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media. It is likely that within a few minutes of scanning these posts, you’ll identify a number of advocates (and possibly detractors).

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2009

And, finally, in case you haven't heard already, NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross , was named one of the Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50 ! Tags: community buzz NPTech nptimes nten members twitter. You can see the latest here. Don't worry, we're not letting it go to her head too much around the office).

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

So how can development directors and nonprofits combine the increased interest in online giving and the importance of a local connection? They also put a price tag on the attainable monthly donation: “Make a difference for as little as 40 cents a day.”. This allows your supporters to do the local marketing for you.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Based on the statistics about women’s growing economic influence in the U.S., Jocelyn Harmon is the Director of NonProfit Services at Care2.com. Tags: Marketing Research. But don’t take my word for it, check out the demographics of our members. Contact us! marketing to women should be a no-brainer.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2009

Last week at the InterAction Forum I had the pleasure of hearing Sam Graham-Felson , former director of blogging for the Obama Campaign talk about their strategy and success. Sam noted that Obama himself was completely bought in to the need, power, and influence that could be gained by investing heavily in online efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). 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. Identifies influencers. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Then Own Charters the Executive Director of CanadaHelps introduced me. Here are a few main points of the second half of the presentation that resonated on the backchannel: anilkanji : Social influence: should orgs measure reach or affinity? I thought it was particularly well done. Tweets from people not in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Tags: facebook. Here's the description. So is One Campaign and Stanford University.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2010

Today’s post was provided by Sheila Moore, Executive Director for the Center for Nonprofits in Chattanooga, TN. Leading is influencing, guiding in a direction, course or action. Tags: Leadership nonprofit leadership. Born Leaders? The distinction is crucial.” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Build relationships with influencers. Return on Investment (ROI) Social Network Fundraising is a presentation by Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2.com, Tags: fundraising2.0 Use the Rule of Thirds (1/3 web presence, 1/3 one-way, 1/3 social). Listen first. Make it easy to re-mix your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

They don't have to be social media butterflies, but they need to have influence and support in the organization. Tags: guest blogging nptech socialnetworking. Your champion is going to make some of the choices and challenges ahead of you a lot easier to overcome. Who's your champion? Find one now before Part 1 begins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

We (marketing and development) already knew the power of viral marketing through Twitter, FB and You Tube, but we had to back it up w/ research to prove it to our directors and senior management team. Tags: social media. Conversely, you can’t go overboard either and post so frequently that your audience begins to tune you out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

California Public Policy Director Judy Darnell offered a case study how she got started simply on Twitter. Two gems shared by a participant was this leader board of healthcare tags and this twitter tool that lets you look up your legislator’s Twitter handle by zip code. Getting Started with Content Curation on Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Amy is the Creative Director of Shufflebrain, a game design firm that has unique expertise in identifying and exploiting behavioral human predilections to make games and game-like experiences compelling in everyday contexts. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences game. Enjoy, and please share your comments with others.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Our inexhaustible assistant director, the web services librarian at a local university who is also spearheading the rebuild of our website and online catalog, managing our interns and keeping track of our paperwork and minutes, arrives with her husband, CUL’s podcast manager and an aspiring comedian who we refer to as The Castmaster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). Return on Investment is what many executive directors may be thinking when social media strategy comes up. While both are important to track and identify, your executive director is probably most interested in the tangible benefits. Tags: ROI. Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Director Lewis Sharp and I quickly convinced the Belmar developers that they didn't want paintings from the basement, but a dynamic alternative to the traditional art museum. Finally, a museum that does MORE than its retail neighbors, offering burlesque performances, tag team lectures, and art fitness training. It’s more honest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need. What do you think?

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APRIL 16, 2008

If this were a web-only project, I wouldn't be surprised: many museum directors and curators ignore what happens on their websites (and technology people use those loose reins to create all kinds of content experiences). When you are in a mob, heavily influenced by others, you are not smarter. This makes sense. The fact that 4.3

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , drupal , idealware , plone , security { 1 trackback } Confluence: Office of the CTO 04.13.09 Issue #1 and #3 are more difficult in Drupal6 and 7, #2 involves someone ignoring the well displayed version numbers, and #4 is beyond Drupal’s realm of influence. In our estimation, they were all really good.

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