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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog.

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Can Crowds Be Trained Like Seals?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If crowds can't be trained to appear like the cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland when needed, can they be facilitated? We're also seeing more nonprofits take this approach for fundraising, program development, and social change. Do you know of an example of crowdsourcing from a nonprofit organization? Nitrogen Wiki .

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9 Ways Nonprofits Can Excel Using Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. Conversational Key Note.

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How Arts Organizations Are Engaging Community Online

Tech Soup

nonprofits for three years. Panelists included: Danielle Siembieda, former community engagement and special projects manager for ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network in San Jose, CA. As part of the marketing campaign for the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial , it also functioned as a professional development program in arts administration.

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Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. The problem I see all too often is that many nonprofits expect immediate success and at the first “failure&# they quit. Program funders watching the presentations.

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Girls for a Change: Call for Mentors

Have Fun - Do Good

Girls for a Change , a nonprofit that pairs women with middle and high school girls to help them create social change in their communities, is looking for mentors in the Bay Area and Phoenix. Through this awesome after-school program, these young women are becoming true social change agents. They even got a grant to fund their project!

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

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People login to our system from any place on Earth within cell reception, and constructively use small windows of spare time for science, medicine, nonprofits, government, and more. Those Featured Projects came together May 26-27, 2009 in San Jose, CA, at the N2Y4 Conference to pitch their ideas, find collaborators, and get valuable feedback.

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