Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. We did this by writing and seeking out blogs in favor of the standards, and even worked with a number of bloggers to incorporate the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Food Project poll. The goal was to draw attention both online and on the ground to expected USDA standards for school snack foods.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

So even when you're offline, you can still tell your nonprofit or library's story with SlideRocket. You can add flash animation, audio narration, YouTube videos, and polls to your presentations. You can also share your live Twitter feed, Facebook page, and Flickr. stream within the presentation itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Our session is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. This is a new way of thinking for a lot of nonprofits (not all), so the checklist is a useful way to bring the concept to life. I was curious about how hard or easy this step was for participants in the peer learning group at Packard and polled them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Some nonprofit colleagues, like my friend Manny Hernandez , are checking it out – as is Geoff Livingston. Geoff’s posts were removed because they were to yes or no oriented, and Quora does not allow for polling types of questions. Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. ” Has your nonprofit taken active steps to create more healthy and productive meetings? Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. How have you changed your organization’s meeting culture to be better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. Some reactions here.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

It’s a good question, and it got me thinking about the kind of content nonprofits might want to share on Twitter on a day-to-day basis, and how an organization can get the most out of microblogging. How can my nonprofit talk about itself without being too self-promotional and driving followers away? See pictures on our Flickr stream”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

" Just in time for our NTC nonprofit blogging panel. I'm taking a break from searching through Flickr for some visuals for our nonprofit blogging panel. The article points out some recent articles and polls that suggest a cooling off in the hype around blogs. "Blogs are not causing a revolution. February, 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget? For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. Kickstarter is a perfect place for nonprofits to appeal to small-time donors. Co-Disruptor: Ink to the People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

I've been getting Twitter DMs from top players in the nonprofit tech and social media for change space -- sharing how they're unmotivated or jaded with using the web and social media for change. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn what types of questions are raised about social media in the context of strategic planning with nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

to quantify exposure Time spent on page & Vote count from poll program ??? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? google syntax to show you who???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. functionality. " Web 2.0,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With 90% of your nonprofit’s supporters and donors now accessing the Internet on multiple devices every day , nonprofits really need to prioritize mobilizing their Web content. They’re looking for news and campaign updates, not detailed information about your nonprofit’s history, programs, mission, and values.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Since widgets were fairly new, I installed a mail widget on my blog and asked nonprofit techies what they thought. I'm so excited! Act 1: What. Chat and Messages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as mobile media continues to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options that will be available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This is our earth month edition of nonprofit technology news. The problem requires pretty much all of us to change our passwords on Google (including Gmail and YouTube), Tumblr, Yahoo, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Intuit, Dropbox, Netflix and Flickr. Thankfully, the TechSoup site is unaffected. Climate Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. This weekend I went widget shopping! Where to find widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

Flickr Photo by Julia Smith. I had the honored of moderating a free wheeling plenary discussion on Day #3 of NTC on “ Innovation and Nonprofits.” So philanthropists have a huge responsibility to rethink and innovate around their relationship with nonprofits, no matter what their gift-size is. We Think Differently.

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