Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. What you think? How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo by Happysmurfday Over the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs. Our hope is that this will be a help to you, as well, giving you a place to start to evaluate the systems your organization uses and how they connect. Managing Volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Click Through to Flickr for Attributions. Their impact is to make the world a better place. Once in place, the first social media step should be listening and enhancing the web presence. These nonprofits need to see inspiring stories of similar size and type of nonprofits and from adjacent practices.

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JUNE 3, 2009

Flickr: Endlessstudio You and your cause have been using video to capture and share stories about the work you do and the change you're making, right? This nonprofit film festival, the first of its kind, will take place at the end of July in Austin, Texas. Check out Lights. Check out Lights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. In this post, I???m

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JUNE 10, 2011

By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. The last session used a classic trainer’s technique, a verbal evaluation of the day. Naeema Zarif started us off with an energizer that involved our respective countries National Anthems. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. More information here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. She asked me if I would write about it or Tweet it.

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JULY 8, 2009

Flickr Photo: _heather_r_ My mother-in-law is famous in our family for one phrase: "Get Over It." More organizations are doing program evaluation than before, and that's fantastic. But evaluation only addresses the past while suggesting a future path. Evaluation is part of innovation, but not all of it.

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MAY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. The next easiest way to reduce IT costs is to evaluate current IT processes and adjust where you can to save money.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

From Mathew's flickr stream. He works for an arts agency and we've set on grant evaluation panels for arts and technology projects. I think that widgets can facilitate social networking connections (check out the mybloglog widget on my sidebar) and enhanced the interaction or conversation already taking place on the blog.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. Perhaps because some people feel guilty about practicing self-care or there are unspoken rules that if you take time for yourself you are not serious about work. It means changing the way we think about self-care in the first place. I’m thinking about practicing self-care in two ways.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

If you already have good content on other social services such as YouTube or Flickr, you can publish that content onto your Facebook Page through the use of Facebook Apps. These apps can place a new tab on the top of your profile with your custom content. But Michaela's favorite Flickr app is Flickr Tab. Dress Your Stage.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A blog may be a place to start. Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e. What skills do I have? Are you, or the staff person who will be in charge of social media, using social media already, or will training be needed? Are you a natural writer? Do you love connecting people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Put these tools in place. As with number one and two above you get additional statistics from Add This which further helps you to evaluate the impact of your web site and how you can continue improving. Chris Brogan likes to call these places “outposts”. Before we go too far, let me start by saying, “Content is King.”

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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. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. It's very easy to sign up and judge. What makes Click special?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives. People don’t build relationships with each other in a vacuum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. The venue, the IRDC , was wonderful place. One strategy was to bring the kids together face-to-face to create content online about healthy foods and place on youtube, socnets. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr.

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AUGUST 18, 2008

They left and wrote over 100 positive reviews of the evening, 12 positive reviews of the museum, and shared over 300 photos of their revels on Flickr. They left with free tshirts branded with the museum's name (and other sponsors), wrote about it on a wiki and shared photos on Flickr. To some people, these events may sound like losers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. I think, as with any other technology, non-profits should first evaluate their own needs. Mixed Reality Event ??? Second Life isn???t

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” After one of these presentations, a participant came up to me and pushed back a little on what I’d said, explaining that data was for evaluation and that seemed very passive. We can use that general or generic even mission statement to start putting our social media use into a strategic place. That’s where we start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Flickr the Conference. We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

An easy place to start is the web: get out there and see what people are already saying about your museum. Search for your institution of TripAdvisor (for reviews), on Technorati (for blog mentions), on Flickr (for photos), or on YouTube (for rare but coveted visitor-generated videos).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

This year it’s taking place in Atlanta, GA and I’ve got such a long list of people to meet, talk to, and learn from. Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. What : If you want to build a strong online community, getting the right platform in place is only half the battle, and it’s the easy half.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Flickr Photo by Star Dust. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco! What are the go-to tools? Exciting examples: What are some great examples from nonprofits?

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MAY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by edtemeles As Holly notes, it would be silly to try to sum up the NTC in one blog post , so I'll give you something digestable. As the Program Coordinator at NTEN -- the one trying to wrestle everyone and everything together to bring you the NTC -- it's fitting that I evaluate the program side. Breakout Sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Go 5:49 in the clip) Source: Flickr Photos. They think about the network structure, evaluation, communication, training, opportunities, and reflection. Maybe this conversations could take place on an existing community of practice ( Iscale ). She also introduced a new (to me) concept: Network Guardian.

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