Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Flickr Photo by Canolais. But few nonprofits use social media to build relationship with potential Big Fish donors. Yup, you can target and build these important relationships by engaging with them through LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Building these relationships is hard work but the benefits are enormous.

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DECEMBER 24, 2012

For me, my favorite part of shopping locally means that I can create relationships with the shop owners and learn more about the products and producers they work with. Photo: Flickr gazeronly. This means that products had less transportation costs and are tied to sustaining the community’s economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I celebrated my 20th anniversary in Flickr and with this video (darn the gown doesn't fit this year!) Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. Tags: relationships. That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 !

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JULY 10, 2012

Here’s how some of the top educational institutions are using Facebook to engage, inspire and build lasting relationships with their students and their families ( Includes slides below ). Top 5 Social Media Tactics Every School Should Implement. 1) Stick to 3 Platforms - Blog / Facebook / Twitter.

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MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. If you like charts for understanding trending and relationships, this is a great one! charitytuesday is your charity taking part on Tuesdays? - Are you on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Builds relationships. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Tom Iselin will show you how to increase your likability and “memorability” among donors that will deepen relationships, help you raise more money, and create greater donor loyalty. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by Jason A. Measuring relationships? And by taking this leap into the unknown as a group, we’ve built relationships that can lead us into new territory, or combine into a really good idea, like two of Stephen Johnson’s turtles [link to video here]. Guest post by Kate Wing. Haven’t you ever thought of this?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lululemon. Each of these verbs would describe a type of relationship between things that exist in what Facebook has up until today called the Social Graph (our connections) or now what is being called the “Open Graph.” Relationship Building Is Even More Important.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Image credit: 500 years of democracy and peace uploaded to Flickr by Paul Downey. I'd love to hear your time management tips for nonprofits and nonprofit consultants. How do we get more of what we want to do done, and less of what we don't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case. When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. Over the last decade, the fundamentals of community and relationship building haven’t really changed. What are some of the the other ‘mission critical’ elements to online community and relationship building? What was important then is even more important now!

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AUGUST 5, 2014

Key takeaways from the Email Marketing workshop that took place on Day 1: Fundraising is dependent on relationship building : Nonprofits should work year-round to cultivate and maintain relationships with donors, so that the ask is not a cold call at the end of the year. Channels such as social media can really help with this.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. Putting relationship fundraising into action and measuring emotions is Craig Linton’s passion for 2013. Note From Beth: Blog Carnivals are a themed collection of blog posts. They have been for a long time and some nonprofits, like Momsrising, have been using them as part of their engagement strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. They need to build relationships with influencers who will trumpet their cause and campaigns. Fortunately, sites like Klout , PeerIndex and Edelman BlogLevel are making it easier to identify and build a relationship with these champions. Guest post by Jesse Noyes. He had a platform and an audience.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I have a love/hate relationship with MarsEdit. This is not new behavior for IllumineX (different player behind the scenes, same song). Yes, I can revert to a previous version. But the writing is on the wall: RIP Ecto. MarsEdit: It’s what I’m using to type this post. It’s powerful and stable and has a lot of great features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic. For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019! I had a great holiday break, although unfortunately I got sick. And while illness isn’t the most energizing start of a new year, I kept replaying the words from the ballon song in the new Mary Poppins movie, “ there is no place to go but up.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. The significance of social media around the globe is the ability to build relationships with your fans and followers. Once you know that you need to start learning about that target market and then working on what platforms and messages you should be using to engage with them and build a relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Flickr Photo by elycelfeliz. It is especially hard given the blame game culture that exists in most workplaces and work relationships. “I made a mistake.&# Those are hard words for some people to utter when there has been a screw up and they’re responsible for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by hanspoldoja. In SVP’s work, we get very engaged with and close to our grantees for long-term, capacity-focused relationships. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. The opening plenary was both fun and informative – an improv company “performed” the results of GEO’s latest research on the relationship between grantmaking practices and grantee success. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Robin covered three community case studies from her experience at Yahoo: 1) Yahoo Merchant Summit, 2) Yahoo Developer Network Events, and 3) the Flickr community. Even primarily online communities need Barcamps, Meetups, hack events, and others to build, sustain, and nurture relationships. 1 Take it local and f2f.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

This FREE software works as an add-on template in Excel, allows you import data from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Email and create social network analysis maps. It looked at the relationships between players on a football team. Seeing these relationships in aggregate helps you make decisions. Who liked each other, who didn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. ” And this week, some attendees at the GEO conference were treated to Katherine Fulton of Monitor Institute’s discussion of networks and their relationship to technology. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Fulton’s talk was timely.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

flickr: lydia mann. If you haven't heard about Jumo , it's a new creation by one of Facebook's founders, designed specifically to develop the relationships between nonprofits and individuals. We're torn about that over here: we can see the benefits of requesting votes, as well as of keeping everything anonymous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2015

Flickr Photo by Celestine Chua. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to best incorporate good habit practice into the project design without being onerous on participants and helping them build good relationships with one another. For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new project that will launch next month.

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MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people.

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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? But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content. Download it here. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. ” It describes the benefits of walking as part of work — creativity, leadership development, and relationship building. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. It can also help to build relationships.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo by Happysmurfday Over the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Photo in Flickr. relationship building.??? The Go Big Always blog written by Sam Lawrence who is the CMO of Jive Software has been playing with Many Eyes , a visualization toolset from IBM. He feed all the text of an entire blog to generate a tag cloud. His first list was social media thought leaders, but it was all guys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by Yandel. Relevant, compelling content attracts new advocates to your cause and deepens relationships with constituents, all without relying on a reporter to relay your message. Align Your Team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

It is really a technique to understand relationships. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. It looked at the relationships between players on a football team. The analysis looks at frequency of interaction, relationship structure (two-way, one-way), and helps reveal structural similarities.

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