Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Click Through to Flickr for Attributions. In our book, Networked Nonprofit , we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit – a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress.

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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. Social Relationship Development. Measuring the Return on Relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Take Breaks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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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.

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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. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn what types of questions are raised about social media in the context of strategic planning with nonprofits.

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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. Matthew one-upped me big time: He told me he hooked up his local area network at home so he could access his TiVo remotely via the Internet and configure it to record programs.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don???t I run the org???s and online advertising campaigns. Our mission is ???celebrating

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed. The nature of your contact with your network or friends and how you build it - transactional versus relationship building? What worked? What didn't? What lies beneath this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

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. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is? Check out a great video by Common Craft : Social Bookmarking in Plain English.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. "We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. What you see above is a social network analysis I created with Gnomedex schwag (and some pennies I borrowed from Chris Brogan ) to illustrate the type of report I would like to be able to generate automatically. Blogs can be a great source of 360 evaluation. What's Next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I am technology trainer, evaluator, curriculum developer, and blogger. use your social network to help you with the campaign. . use your social network to help you with the campaign. Your goal is $750.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. Through blogging, nonprofits can share their stories, break news, and share resources quickly, easily, and successfully to their communities on social networking sites. 5) To grow your fans and followers on social networking sites.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. 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. Evaluate the outcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

For example, this week they will attend a workshop at LinkedIn where LinkedIn employees will coach them on online networking tips and taking advantage of the platform for online networking. Flickr Photo by Mike Cogh. Flickr Photo by Mike Cogh. Connect Thoughtfully: Friending policy for each online social network you use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Recently, some museums have launched initiatives to rebrand as community spaces, acknowledging and attempting to harness the positive social energy around visitation. Notably, the Brooklyn Museum's heavy involvment with social networking sites like MySpace has extended the idea that museums are sites for discussion.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

The title of the session was “Politics 2.0 – How social networks and new media are changing politics.&# Her subject was, what makes for effective social networks. Strong Social Ties a. awareness – you have to know the network exists 2. First up was Ruby Sinreich. Here are some notes: 1.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Have a response process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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NTEN

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social. Benchmark Studies and Examples. They also produced this infographic about how World Leaders tweet.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? " traffic is an important metric to evaluate a blog. " The question awoke my inner research geek (a long time ago I worked as a research analyst and focus group moderator).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

photo by flickr user michale , licensed with CC " BY " I arrived back from the UK only to jump into a car and drive out to Western, MA for a meeting to present an evaluation report I've been working on a for a client. They have issued a call-to-action -- the " Integration Proclamation."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, most social networks are walled gardens. What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. When I write posts on this blog or share photos on Flickr, they are searchable in Google. But anything I write on Facebook is only visible within that network.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. The big news in social networking and tech is the new open platform of Facebook. First a little background.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I also keep reflecting one sentence in Dan McQuilan's post on the NTEN blog about Social Networking and Social Change: " There's some uncertainty about how non-profits should approach social networks, and especially how to get an effective return for the time that has to be invested in these relationship-spaces."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Flickr: flickr.com/humanrights. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). Title: Online Outreach and Production. Website: www.witness.org.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Now, recall in Chapter 2: Nonprofit Marketing Strategy when we evaluated keyword ranking opportunities based on difficulty. Flickr , which is a platform designed to share online photos, is another great way to source images that are labeled for reuse. Afterall, keywords are the backbone of SEO.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Flickr Photo: clevercupcakes I recently got an email from an NYU graduate student in Public Relations, Paola Christina Lamarca. She's working on her Capstone and wanted to hear a few of my opinions about the impact of social media on the nonprofit sector. So here are her questions and my answers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

It’s a set of new guidelines that provides sound strategies for establishing nonprofit brands on Facebook, from utilizing cover and profile photos effectively, to evaluating how to tell your story and represent your organizations’ unique voice and mission. Image 2: Anonymous (Jacob Davis, Creative Commons on Flickr ).

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