Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. From courting potential donors to hours of grant writing, there are very few times a fundraiser’s job feels done. The amount of responsibilities mixed with our desire to help others and do a great job is a recipe for burnout. 7 Ways to Avoid Fundraising Burnout. 1) Take Time Off.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If they have well-executed social media campaigns, send executive staff links to their profiles on Facebook , Twitter , YouTube, Flickr , Foursquare, Tumblr , etc., Add your social and mobile media responsibilities to your job description. Find your competitors the Web. with a note that you fear your nonprofit is falling behind.

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MAY 20, 2009

So i quit my job and set up Talk About Local to bring locally created and locally owned websites to communities across the country." " Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. The most needed skills differed by their level but also by the type of job they held. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? The same 6 or 7 competencies (see chart above) were selected as most important for all levels.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Flickr: vernhart Like many folks in our community, I do not come from a tech background. I didn’t play video games or computer games growing up, other than the required hours of Oregon Trail in elementary school. So, when I first came to NTEN in the summer of 2012, I was a little overly conscious of my underdeveloped technology muscles.

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MAY 11, 2012

And what if their job evaluation was based partly on how effectively they are at coaching the more junior folks? Photo credit: Flickr rburtzel). What if the more senior folks in your organization were explicitly responsible for coaching the newer members of the team?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2009

I thought Arianna Huffington did a good job as the opening keynoter hitting on the service theme. Posted the best 30 or so on Flickr : got some great ones of Steve Wright of the Salesforce Foundation. Enjoyed my day in Berkeley yesterday at the Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp 2009. I took a lot of pictures, but not that many turned out.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Flickr: marcp_dmoz Technology aside, it’s clear that the advent of Cloud-based solutions has had an impact on the culture of our work as nonprofits. It’s changed the jobs we do, both within the IT department and in more mission-related positions, and how we’re able to do them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Funders need to learn how to do a better job determining how and when to intervene in programs less. Likewise, nonprofits need to figure out how to do a better job setting some limits with grantmakers who want to interfere too much, while proactively establishing and tracking success measures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr photo by DoroQuez. Annie Hernandez, Program Officer, The Lumpkin Family Foundation : I’m a nonprofit advocate that believes I have the best job in the world working to support people who care and make a difference. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. It's exacerbated by the fact that it's a 24/7 job. Did I already mention that this is a 24/7 job? No matter what prompts the conversation though, it almost always circles back to the same place: productivity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. This isn’t officially part of their job, they are just nice, and find value in seeing how our followers respond to the messages we push out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by neoporcupine. From leadership, to strategy, to decision-making, to meetings, to job descriptions—a data-informed culture has continuous improvement embedded in the way it functions. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a webinar on measurement and nonprofit for Kivi at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

B0nus Insight: Linking Social Media Results to Job Performance. The model prompted a fantastic discussion about practice. Going from “Walking to Running&# requires more capacity to implement social media and to ensure adoption it needs to be linked to job performance. Flickr Photo by Kai Hendry. Case study is here ).

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.) 79% of LinkedIn’s users, for example, are 35 or older and have high paying jobs. If that’s the case for your organization, here are some realities you should be aware of before you ask them to take on that new social media channel. 1) Not All Social Media Channels Are Created Equal.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Huge shift in online collections beginning with Flickr Commons and CC licenses back around 2008 but it will take another decade for everyone to get onboard :) — Aron Ambrosiani (@AronAmbrosiani) December 2, 2019 And, when you make that kind of shift to shared ownership you're willing to share in an open, trusting manner, as Heidi mentioned.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

flickr: valleygirl_tka A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. Take the time to learn in your job. The executive team makes important decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. Their dashboard already did a great job at tracking impact metrics about the reach and size of their audience, but they wanted to go deeper in tracking engagement and taking action. ” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Flickr photo by Sarah and Mike.probably Decisions are tough. Just choosing which shoes you'll pack for your trip can be tough, not to mention the big, life ones. Then there are those decisions in between that might not change the direction of your life or work but will certainly shape and impact it. But should they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Personally, my goal is to see myself out of a job in 5 years. I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Read the TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Flickr " 2. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2009

Flickr Photo: kohtzy Last weekend, I was lucky enough to speak at The Arc of the USA 's executive leadership conference. Changing Work Force -- remote staff, job sharing, and alternative scheduling. As usual, I did a session on social media , but they also let me trot out something new: Five Trends that Will Impact IT.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. Our job as change agents – I'm looking at you, NTEN community – is to help our organizations get beyond this "no time, no money, no staff" wall. That wall is an obstacle to success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. If someone was tired or overwhelmed, she could claim the need for “self-care” and make it everyone else’s job to fill the gap she left behind. “ We used self-care as a way to escape responsibility. There was no accountability to the team.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. But secondly, reporting helps you learn how to do your job better. Lewis: “Social media is everyone’s job, but you need one person to be the gatekeeper. The Humane Society actually used Facebook to raise money for an additional staffperson – and they got one! Brigida: “ Social CRM is the future.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

flickr: haglundc A community manager’s job is built on a foundation of distractions. As a social media manager, it’s your job to listen and respond, but it’s also your job to create strategy, to find out if it was in fact a QR code on the cooler – and examine how exactly the ice cream vendor is using it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

Her research demonstrated that people tend to lean toward one of two general ways of thinking about failure, though everyone exhibits both. Those who favor a “Fixed Mindset” are motivated by external praise, getting an “A” or someone staying “Good Job.” Flickr Photo from Employment Now. (2)

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2009

Nonprofit Communications Round Table (Fri, Aug 21): Join your nonprofit communications colleagues at a (virtual) round table session to discuss trends and tools and share practices around the issues you're facing on your job today. Free and only for NTEN members. You set the agenda! > > Learn more and RSVP. You set the agenda! >

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Flickr Photo: Lawrence OP A couple of years ago, I talked to Ed Granger-Happ about his philosophy for running the IT shop at Save the Children. As he explained his philosophy for getting his job done well, he said the one thing he could not understand were tech people who create fiefdoms at their organizations. years I've been at NTEN.

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MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s commendable, but after four years of recession and the likelihood that you generously added social media to your already packed job description without compensation, it’s not sustainable and being overworked and underpaid will only lead to burnout and resentment. The era of winging it in social media is over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. One of the many inspiring things he shared in his talk was the phrase: “ You can have a job, career, or calling.&# It resonated. Is your work a job or career or is it a calling? The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

Flickr: anythreewords Did you know that Fundrasing and Development staff was the fastest-growing constituency in the NTEN (read: nonprofit tech) community? I can't wait to hear how you're doing when it comes to NPTech, and I'm really interested to learn how you think we're doing, too.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr photo: pasukaru76 "Now is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT" That was the subject line of an email I received from Gartner recently. Your job was to make sure everyone else could do their jobs, by making sure they had computers that work, access to email, and of course, the ability to print mailing labels. (Un?)Fortunately,

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

One of the professors describes his job as teaching how to "get someone else's heart beating fast while yours stays calm.". Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. There's even a bacon bra on Flickr, but you'll have to search for that yourself. The return of technology as a national priority.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Flickr photo: surface to air If you chose a career in IT, you also chose, by definition, to be an agent of change. Sure, your job includes technology. But your job is not ABOUT technology. Your job is about communicating the value of technology, and helping your organization embrace it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

For inspiration, check out the book Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art , and its corresponding Good Mail Day Flickr group. You can also re-use old cards by cutting along the fold and reusing the side with the image, if its backside is blank. Watercolor postcard with collage 2. Write a letter to yourself.

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