Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. I like to use a combined method. The above shows the methods. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? Do numbers only matter? There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Flickr Photo by Brittany Bush. You might want to treat yourself to copy our new book, “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” read up on all the tips and methods that we gleaned from interviewing hundreds of nonprofit professionals about their self-care routines. Year-end giving campaigns.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2013

Lin discussed how Greenpeace uses a method called A/B testing to maximize their newsletters. A/B Testing is a simple marketing method to test changes to a webpage or newsletter against its current design and content. Lin said that the organization uses the method to test email subject lines. Image via Flickr user HowardLake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them. One of the topics includes stress triggers in the workplace.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, text messaging, all of these made this possible. Open standards are now becoming de-riguer for application developers, and even proprietary vendors are adopting longstanding ideas and methods from free and open source software. New technologies, the web, Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

Flickr Photo by TomtheJet. Stephen is an expert in many training methods so this will be an excellent co-learning experience. I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference).

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Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Will you be following along or asking any questions via the methods above? Longer-term, the plan is to become similar to Kiva.org, but for schools. Follow along and connect with the community! Follow LearnAsOne on Twitter. Email the Zambia LearnAsOne team. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Letting members get hands-on is another method of creating engagement. Kroll suggests watching what your community is watching, i.e. take a look at Flickr statistics to get a sense of what people are interested in. Repeat : It is helpful at this point to look back to see what works in getting your community members connecting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday? How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday? Our work days are filled with meetings and conference calls with the intent of getting stuff done.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2011

Flickr: Iwan Indrawan Technological change moves quickly! Gamification is quickly becoming a popular engagement method. But NTEN members are using the newest, and some of the oldest, technologies to do good all over the world. Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments!

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

But if your nonprofit values its intellectual property, use secondary services such as a privately hosted blog, a video site or a photo site like Flickr with strong intellectual property protection. Publishing updates and content on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter is a necessary action in today's social web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006. In the above video, Naeema Zarif. explains the how and why. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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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. Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Flickr Photo by Mangee. He references the How To Say No podcast that gives you a method for saying no. Some of you in the nonprofit technology field may remember this wonderful cartoon " Time Management for Techies " created by Miriam Engelberg who we lost breast cancer about two years ago. Go read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall. Social media doesn’t replace the traditional outreach methods, it only enhances those efforts. It was a fantastic laboratory to explore the power of peer learning and the right mix. I’m excited for these panelists to share their success stories with the DC nonprofit community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. Other methods of measuring viewership data include Google Analytics for videos posted on your organization's website and Facebook Insights for movies posted on your organization's Facebook fan page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Flickr photo by Terry Bain. I was searching for the perfect illustration for "five" in flickr and since you all know how much I like dogs , I couldn't resist this photo. (The Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2013

Flickr: theirhistory Summer sun and vacation days haven''t slowed down the NTEN community! This edition of Member Round Up shows folks busy doing research, releasing reports, and unveiling a new community platform to help nptechies connect and learn. Miss out on #GivingTuesday last year, but considering participating for 2014?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Keep in mind that a user on Flickr consumes and engages with media differently than the audience that engages on Instagram simply because of how the platforms of engagement are set up. With shiny new updates to its aptly-titled Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide this month, you’ll find a method to the madness of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. They began working together in the Fall of 2011 and have identified six initial standardization priorities: Content Sourcing & Methods; Reach & Impressions; Engagement; Influence & Relevance; Opinion & Advocacy; Impact & Value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. It is between the two methods. Then you are ready to tackle confirming the topic before combustion, which is the discussion and work around meaning-making and decisions. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

Flickr: Jeff_Werner Over in the Nonprofit Webmasters affinity group , Melissa Barry from the Parkinson's Disease Foundation started a great conversation. So, how do you even begin to decide what method of delivery is right for you? After all, you're writing the report because you want your audience/community/board to read it.

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NTEN

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. We'll be posting highlights from this meeting of the minds on the NTEN blog.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Flickr: StrudelMonkey You know the MTV show, " Pimp My Ride ", where hip hop star Xzibit knocks on the door of one lucky lemon owner and takes their car to the shop for a team of tattooed men to gussy up? This method allows for the ability to search specifically for tweets from that webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Download it here. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. Bill Weger, a nonprofit marketing veteran, shares proven methods on how to gain more traction using social media, media relations, branding, and message development in his new book, Inspire Good: Nonprofit Marketing for a Better World. Here is an example of the new tools that will be available soon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. They found that: “Personal solicitations to pre-existing networks of donors and friends through multiple channels were rated as the most effective methods for fundraising. I did not use any of these methods. In light of that, I personally met only 4 of the 12 donors (excluding myself).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

Using social media tools and other methods to help people find your videos. Screenshot in flickr with url to blog post or videoblog post. Send your flickr screenshot to groups, contacts. m looking forward to the next meeting at Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain on Sunday June 3rd at 10:00 AM. 10:00 - 10:30 Mingling. This isn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. Bregman has a method for that. Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. This book is a gem. But keeping your focus day in and day out for an entire year can be a real challenge.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thursday Bram: How have Alpine Access’ methods of managing staff and working with telecommuters changed since the company started? Photo courtesy Flickr user Mattastic! What important lessons have you learned? Jim Ball: When we started Alpine Access, we knew we didn’t know what we didn’t know. Enabling the Web Work Revolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. You should also be thinking about what to measure and set up an efficient method for collecting that data. Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. So, the Sharing Foundation has continued to use our method of getting donated laptops in the US, refurbishing them, and getting them to Cambodia. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. I blogged it and was initially very excited! Tharum was disappointed too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2008

Flickr photo by Lostajv. I have immersed myself in creative thinking methods over the past 15 years. Another one of my favorite creative thinking methods is: A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD: How You Can Be More Creative. Michele Martin asks " What Inspires You? One of my favorites is Michael Gelb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site.

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