Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? A new role here to facilitate these Wired fundraisers. or not work ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. He did an analysis of his Facebook friends to explore the connections that consist among them. You can spend time adding labels to specific clusters of your network to help with your analysis as I did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. As the event organizer, we allocated a few thousand dollars to paid promotion of posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It also analyzes the skills – which are often misunderstand as the ability to use the social network platforms like Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Arts and Social Media. At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

These days,"social network" is a term that often refers to a social media community, such as Facebook, and thus is not a term that many managers would take seriously unless they were discussing a social media campaign. The connection between two people within a social network is referred to as a tie.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. “We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Learn more about the Challenge & participate!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort. They also have many high school groups on Facebook. How do you facilitate the hive? (He's currently getting his Ph.D

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I want to thank the other 31 Facebook friends for their donations to the Sharing Foundation in honor of my Birthday Cause. This all works well for psychology of collective influence which is an important part of Facebook application design. Beth Kanter, Round Up of Social Birthday Greetings. Let me explain. I love that idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a half-day “Digital Strategies&# seminar with Vince Ford, Director of Digital Media from the New York Philharmonic and leading a peer session for major orchestra marketing staff and youth orchestra executive directors with Makala Johnson who does Social Media for the Mayo Clinic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools. While the board wasn’t against technology or social media, it was a little bit of a mystery.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. If the goal is getting more targeted visitors, functionality with Facebook is key. What are APIs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Every year I do a fundraising campaign using social media. Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. with "just for fun."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. Anyone can set up a profile for an organization (it prompts for an EIN number ( but not required ) and Facebook account url) and you can opt to be the administrator. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Upon my arrival in Alaska, I checked into the airport on Facebook Places and saw a welcome Tweet from the Foundation. I also spotted an Alaskan moose too. Social Media and Online Digital Technology Discussion. What’s the potential benefit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

That their web site may be or incorporate a blog as well as integrate, videos, podcasts, and photos. (2) Social Outposts: This is your organization's presence on social networking or social media outposts like Twitter, Facebook, or other places.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Provide Contact Information. for your supporters to help spread the word!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2016

Eventbrite discovered that 67 percent of shares happen just after registration, and that every Facebook share is worth $4 of event ticket sales. So it's critical that you use a platform that makes it really easy for people who just signed up to invite their social networks to join them. Offer Options and Discounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Not too long ago, I submitted my chapter to BJ Fogg's Psychology of Facebook Applications. The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In a study on the average gift value of donors directed to JustGiving pages via social media, Twitter prompts came out on top, with an average gift from someone coming from a Twitter link worth 30.26, compared with just 18.33 on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Source: Working Wikily Sam's story illustrates the tension between working as an organization versus in a networked way or working wikily. I'm comfortable using social networks and other social media sites, although I use them as an individual, I see great potential for my nonprofit organization's fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

I will leave this with a final thought cribbed from Ethan Zuckerman, who wrote last week: “Tunisians took to the streets due to decades of frustration, not in reaction to a WikiLeaks cable, a denial-of-service attack, or a Facebook update.”. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. She was able to go to her boss and get some more resources in the budget for social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

We met almost two years ago when we took the online facilitation workshop with Nancy White. We connected on Facebook. What is interesting to me is this cross-social network communication. I suspect there are not a lot of people who are using many different social networking sites and web2.0 Donate now.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2013

” You’re likely to hear answers like, I signed a petition, changed my avatar on Twitter, or liked them on Facebook. It’s important for organizations to understand what messages, individuals, and tools facilitate the movement between each level to gain perspective on the motivation behind the individual’s engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

I’ve been having this conversation with several groups lately, Network of Networked Funders and Network Weaving Sandbox , comprised of individual who are intentionally approaching their work with a network mindset. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network. These can be done offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

What's it like behind the firewall facilitating everyone in the organization to embrace social media? It was an exhausting trip but one that would not have been possible if not for the energy and spunk that Danielle brings to her everyday approach to spreading the joy that Social Networking can be. I got curious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages. The idea is that participants would learn some of the best practices for these social media tactics and then design and implement an experiment and share their results with one another.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication.

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