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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Sponsored by Give Lively Increasingly, donors are turning to social media to find causes to support. According to a recent survey , almost half of millennials say they’re inspired to give to charity by social media. Or pick one constituent your organization has served and shine a spotlight on their story on social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2012

This 90-minute social media how-to webinar is ideal for nonprofit communications and fundraising staff. for nonprofits and discusses how to lay a foundation for future success on the Social Web, and then quickly moves into discussing the top five social media best practices for nonprofits with a particular focus on Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. I was in a random hotel ballroom in Denver, ready to present on the importance of social media to over 60 social media managers from LGBT choirs around the world. The critical path quickly became clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall. Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. Where do you start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation for the Packard Foundation board of directors to provide a brief report on how I spent my time as Visiting Scholar and share some insights about social media and the nonprofit sector. We got a range of responses from nonprofits, foundations, and even some colleagues of board members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. SMMStandards Progress and Roadmap: Marklein and Paine Present the First Social Media Measurement Standards at the Dublin Summit. Social Media Measurement Standards: Progress and Roadmap – A Guest Post by Zan McColloch-Lussier. But where to start?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. There are many adhoc Twitter hashtags where nonprofits, foundations, social entrepeneurs, and others are sharing resources or having conversations. In my initial analysis of mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet , I did not look at hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee. One of the key principles for an effective social media strategy is experimentation, learning, and rapid prototyping. It is important in designing a social media experiment that the work isn't an add-on or perceived as "extra work.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Note from Beth: The Lance Armstrong Foundation , known by its nickname “Livestrong”, provides a network of support for people diagnosed with cancer and their families. The foundation's mission is to “inspire and empower people affected by cancer” by helping find the information, support, and strength they need to fight cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. B0nus Insight: Linking Social Media Results to Job Performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. When colleague Dan Cohen told me of his recent experience using guided imagery in a social media workshop, I thought it was definitely valuable to share with others. Seeing Social Media Success Before It Happens by Dan Cohen. A powerful lesson hit home during a recent two-day training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2006

What happens when you give a grantmaker a camera and flickr account? An interesting use of flickr as a documentation tool! Last May, I documented a project of the Sharing Foundation's in flickr. If you want to talk about flickr and nonprofits, there's a place to do so here. It's the college sponsorship program).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Panelists: Wendy Harmon: social media manager, philosophy is to use social media to execute mission. Danielle Brigida: using social media to increase, reach, engagement and revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Given my interest in flickr that's why I set one up last fall. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. Note from Beth: Social media is not a waste a time, but there are ways to waste your time. On Saturday, I had the honor of presenting at Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp and one of the burning questions was about efficiency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Absolutely brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

With all the attention on other social media tools, many people forget about the power of flickr, its wonderful community and rich photographs of the world. Take for example CARF, Children At Risk Foundation, which has just launched its " Reaching for a Star " Flickr Xmas fund-raising campaign for 2006.

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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. There are examples (see below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. Flickr Photo by KK. Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. Networked Nonprofit in Vegas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. Foundation Resiliency Resources. Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee I declared that resilience was one of my themes for the new year. And, in writing a guest post about it over at the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effective Blog, I shared the story of the boiling frog. … Read More

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. The rise of social media and mobile technology has changed the way people process information. It’s crucial that your social media and mobile technology campaigns are integrated into your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program. How many hours could be freed up across the foundation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2015

Flickr Image from Carlos ZGZ. Looking for new donors to give to your nonprofit for the $250 matching opportunity from The Patterson Foundation ? Your friends are your volunteers, board members, clients, vendors, family members, media partners. and Marie Selby Foundation, John S. Reach out to them. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. This afternoon we played the Social Media Game. Given that we were talking about technology/social media, and the translators were not techies - I had to fill in some of the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by Yandel. Earned Media is Dead. OK, reports of the death of traditional media may be greatly exaggerated. And traditional media coverage is now increasingly driven by conversation and content that starts off in the online space, on the communications platforms and channel driven by nonprofits themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. I also expanded my practice to designing and facilitating internal meetings for nonprofits and foundations on a variety of topics, including activating a culture of wellbeing and innovation labs. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019! I had a great holiday break, although unfortunately I got sick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

Read my Flickr Story About Leng Sopharath, an orphan being sponsored for college by the Sharing Foundation I've been a board member of the Sharing Foundation for the last three years and volunteer several years before that. The Sharing Foundation was nominated by the Snapdragon Team. Read my flickr story 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Today, in an email, Allison Fine is asking for our reactions to a new report she authored and published by The Overbrook Foundation yesterday called "Web 2.0 Assessment of The Overbrook Foundation's Human Rights Grantees." I could not get my blogging software login page to load and using flickr was impossible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo in my flickr stream here. Every time Dr. Hendrie travels back from Cambodia, we had a special briefing meeting for the Sharing Foundation volunteers and board members. The Sharing Foundation accomplishes so much! We had that meeting over the weekend and Dr. Hendrie, had almost literally, just stepped off the plane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. Discussions about tactics and approaches – from PRIs to capacity building to scaling to networks to use of social media – happen outside of a context of clarity about the most fundamental questions: What are our goals? Given those goals, what are the best strategies to achieve them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Wanna was one of the first Cambodian bloggers to leave a comment on my blog and we have gotten to know each other through flickr and our blogs. Meanwhile, I am so proud that he put the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge widget on his blog. Wanna Kahn is a Cambodian college student studying engineering in Vietnam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we highlight the work of the Sunlight Foundation and its executive director, Ellen Miller. Resource: The Media Consortium – Campaign Cash – Who Is Funding Your Elections. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

From Flickr Stream - Grandfather and Grandson. EROSKI is the consumer magazine edited by Eroski Foundation. The translation of the article is here and is about how grandparents help take care of their grandchildren and help their children save money on day care costs. This is to inform you that we have made an information of Consumer.es

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