Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Authored by Capulet’s Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot, this report is based on in-depth interviews with leading practitioners and a literature review. Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits – Guest Post. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

COVID-19 is forcing nonprofits to think differently about engaging supporters. The unique challenge for nonprofits—especially those that rely on in-person support—will be providing virtual opportunities to their supporters to adapt to this new environment. Virtual actions that solve for urgent issues: FOOD BANKS. Urgent issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

On January 30th, I’m speaking at the Social Media for Nonprofits in New York City. In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview. This issue has been a hot topic amongst master curators like Jan Gordon , Robin Good , and Howard Rheingold.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

Volunteers are the backbone of many nonprofits and fill various roles, from special event support to hands-on work at your program sites. Volunteers make up a third of the nonprofit workforce. How many volunteers did the nonprofit have last month, quarter, or year? A well-run volunteer program also relies on data.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 15, 2020

10 Tips To Improve Your Nonprofits Youtube Channel. An effective Youtube channel can help you spread your nonprofit’s message and increase donations. . Your nonprofits digital marketing efforts should definitely include Youtube as it’s potential to increase outreach and donations is huge. by Olivia Warnes.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Why is a hospital foundation getting involved in quality-of-life issues?”. By working with other nonprofit organizations with parallel missions, we can prevent mission drift while still using resources effectively. We also plan to involve as many community and staff members as we can in virtual interviews. Giving Tuesday !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Nancy’s book launched the same month as the Networked Nonprofit. 6. ShareThis!

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

1) The retirement of baby boomer nonprofit CEOs is a mission critical issue facing the nonprofit sector. 2) The nonprofit sector is growing at breakneck speed. From 2001 – 2011, nonprofit growth represented 25% of economic growth; and for-profits? The Roadblocks of Nonprofit Culture. Let em sink in.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 1 The report was based on 310 survey responses and 30 in-depth interviews with people identified as next gen donors. Teaching philanthropy to children: why, how, what. As part of a. Stay tuned!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

He plans to use the grant to create a training program to teach homeless people to use social media tools to tell their own story. During SXSW, Mark was doing interviews in the Beacon Nonprofit Lounge. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America. He doesn't give up. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Last week, I was in Sao Paolo for the ABCR Festival, the leading conference in Brasil for fundraising for nonprofit organizations. The UN Global Report is also using Facebook Messenger bots to engage young people around different issues. This was my third visit to the country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization. Clearly, volunteers are essential to your nonprofit’s ability to move its mission forward. Here’s what we’ll cover: Why are volunteers important to nonprofit organizations? Why are volunteers important to nonprofit organizations? Request a Demo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. We are a Center whose Co-founder just left after 17 years of work in the organization, which is pretty impressive, I think, in the nonprofit world. Then, I moved into the world of teaching.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 26, 2015

This article was originally published in our April/May issue of Nonprofit Hub Magazine. Sign up to get a free issue delivered to your mailbox. When done properly, volunteer engagement can help your nonprofit operate more effectively and make your mission work more rewarding for everyone. Where is the greatest need?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Small group or partnering learning activity: Reflection on reading materials, debriefing on exercises or practice activities, identifying issues and concerns, brainstorming ideas and solutions to bring to the whole group, action research.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

If you're one of the folks looking for a job with a nonprofit right now, here are some ways to use the web to help with your search. Ask if they'd introduce you to their contact so you can set up an informational interview. What suggestions do you have for how people can use the web to find a nonprofit job?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Britt Bravo has been selected by East Bay Area free weekly in their annual "best of" issue and while the readers' choice for best blog was the Daily Kos , the Editors of the East Bay Express selected Britt Bravo's blogs and podcasts for best of the East Bay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

My colleague, John Kenyon , who is a brilliant and talented nonprofit technology trainer just came back from trip to Australia. Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. Photo from John Kenyon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Who is already working on this issue who you think others should support? The Seasons Fund for Transformation , who I posted an interview with on Friday , supports social change organizations that are incorporating inner work into their outer work. changeblogger blog activism nonprofit

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). I was particularly touched by my interview with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network , so I thought I'd share it here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

technologies produced a lot of interesting exchanges on a whole range of issues for a lot of people - but the most exciting for me was the message with the subject line "Are you the Michael Stein I used to know?" Thus, we think that the new Internet technologies are a natural fit for nonprofit work. So here goes my own interpretation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her! Tell me a little about your professional background, particularly the work you do with nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event. Using Tech to Reduce Barriers to Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

TechTalk public television show host Susan McKinnell interviewed Steven Clift about e-democracy including Issues Forums. RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits. and nonprofits trainers' toolkits. Global Action Network reports on a session about how to create a global conversation about issues like water and aids.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

Today's transcript is from my interview with the founders of Back to Earth , an organic catering and outdoor adventure company. One of the things I've enjoyed the most about interviewing people for this podcast is seeing the similarities and connections that arise between people. I hope that you enjoy their interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

As the issues became more public and more people started looking for others and taking action, it was necessary for an organization to form that could provide some of the infrastructure and administration of the community and it’s work. But, the organization remained community driven. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. happen in different locations several times a year and for the past three years, these meetings have taken place after the annual NTC: Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 27, 2011

Funny thing is, I learned the exact same thing in just one day while attending the ASU Lodestar Centers 2011 Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness. It's great to hear that folks were able to have such good communication and networking between nonprofits. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B. Love the post, Sarah!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Nonprofits often struggle with creating effective content and engagement strategies. It's not enough to just share stories about your impact — how do you mobilize and engage people who are passionate about issues you're working on? Interview people who are your influencers and champions, and find out why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field.

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