Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. A= Action M0= Monitor RE= Reflection on results - rinse and repeat. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

It is process o f organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked with your network. In the post I referenced a video interview with Robert Scoble by Howard Rheingold that Mari Smith highlighted in a google + post. curators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Yet, we often squander it by not being mindful. Mindful online is defined as not just going into auto pilot to update your FB status or scan your Twitter stream but to consciously think about all aspects of your digital actions. Here’s a recent interview with her in the Atlantic (by way of Rheingold).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. One of her points resonated with some other reflections I'm seeing on this side of the pond from early adopters in the nonprofit space in using tagging for resource sharing. What tags to use to describe items, who decides this? Why not just use search?"

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Care2

JULY 9, 2010

Jill: It provides another type of idea stream. Last week when interviewing a Gulf resident in Grand Isle, LA – I used Flip video to capture the gorgeous sun on the desolate sandy beach being cleaned up by BP. Audio, also captures my immediate reflections, and I rarely edit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. and discovered this book in the stream. I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

While the traditional case study is tidy, packaged, and finished – the living case study is open to input, questions, reflections and most of all empowerment of peers. Erika Croxton from Grist and Daniela Aceves from Roots of Change agreed to each share a living case study. Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

Wee Hours ' analysis of gender differences between the visual stream out of flickr for Blogher versus Gnomedex. Bonus content: JD Lasica's Interview with Lisa Stone and his flickr set Susan Mernit and Julia Leung's Blogging 101 Presentation Advanced Tool Session Blog Lisa Williams Podcast. Charlene Li' s take on the why A-List matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com. There was a wonderful interview with Jane McGonigal and Kelly McGonigal about their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Always had suggestions for someone to interview or a paper or book to read. When the book was published, she was one of the first people who posed with a photo of the book. One of my big projects during my first year at Packard was to co-author the Networked Nonprofit with Alison Fine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Anna Gordon of the Warrior Momma blog was nice enough to e-interview me about my work recently. She asked some pretty self-reflective questions--you can tell she is a coach! A while back I was also interviewed by the East Bay Monthly , a small, neighborhood paper where I live, about carbon offsetting. Embarrassing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

That's me interviewing Jonny Goldstein after he interviewed me. It's part of my series of video blogging famous video bloggers on technique (so far have interviewed or captured them in action -- Nick Booth , Steve Garfield , and Robert Scoble ). The excellent photo was taken by David Tames who I had interviewed earlier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , I realized that Slideshare is a haven for them. I also share my Slideshare content in my other social streams. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange celebrates its second year anniversary and reflects on activities to date. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. And, how you click on your "friends" profiles and see their social streams. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . See the interview I did for Arrive Magazine , pages 34-37). Monitoring the tag stream during the workshop provides a backchannel for people in the room and allows for remote participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The day after Christmas, I stumbled upon Chris Penn's list of reflection tips and it gave some ideas. Yes, I check many out because I might be writing about it or interviewing some nonprofit who has done something interesting. Beth Dunn has some great reflections on how to do this and why it is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a “living case study&# approach – doing an interview with them to share how they achieved their success. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. There are people who just want an expert on the stage to share their wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa. NpTech Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

There's an interesting idea for "emergency NGO in a box" in the notes about Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Tools and an interview with Gregg Swanson of HumiNet by Britt Bravo from the Summit. I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

After a very successful three days I had some time to reflect about what made this technology initiative such a success. Plan ahead and try out new techniques for online engagement, but don't be afraid to switch direction mid-stream. The list goes on and on, depending on what you're trying to accomplish (and who your audience is!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Bloglines (nptech account).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

With over 600 people registered for the Webinar, it was hard to answer all the questions as the chat stream just flew by and the 90 minutes was up before we knew it. One of the things that helped me was to go slowly and return to drawing and visual thinking techniques. Incorporating some mini-reflections into my day also helped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

live streaming for entertainment. Last month, I did a reflection interview after the event with her to discover what worked and what didn't. The event used social networks like Twitter and Tumblr for real-time updates on the event and had the ladies of Sleepover 2.0 The event raised about $1,400 within six hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We were also very lucky that Claire Sale volunteered to be our Twitter advocate who monitored the Twitter stream and verbalized important points and insights. . Invisible People uses crowd sourcing to select the best stories and interviews. The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. There was also a bit of reflection to identify how to efficiently use FriendFeed and determine its value to nonprofit. During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. When a service goes down, users will complain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? I've been doing a small research project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I wrote a follow up post titled " Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations " based on an interview with Ben Matthews , a member of the London founding group. He told me that I really needed to interview Amanda Rose , the person doing the lion's share of the organizing for Twestival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

" They have begun inviting local bloggers as press to openings and events - usually they get in touch with Mike Woycheck or Cynthia Closkey, two of the co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers , who then re-blog the invitation and spread it via Facebook or their own Twitter streams. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections.

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Growing your monthly giving program in particular fosters a reliable revenue stream that can carry your organization through challenging times. How can your giving program’s name reflect that story? Earning revenue from a variety of sources helps stabilize your nonprofit’s finances. Doctors Without Borders: Field Partners.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. . In the survey and interviews process, that is the primary way to reach everyone. They’d have a burner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. And you wil find a lot of local scenery in the flickr stream as people enjoyed the streets of Monterey. Live Video Streams. Flickr the Conference. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. Geotagging Photos.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I interviewed Steven on my podcast, Smart Communications Podcast, about his book. And actually, before we got started with this webinar, Steven and I were both reflecting on one of our shared favorite people, who’s Kivi Leroux Miller at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide. ” and also to write it down. So you get the point.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Many of them don''t have the clothes required to go to a job interview. Their work stays up on the walls and they have ownership over their project space for the long term; no one is going to reset everything or give up on them in mid-stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

My FLickr Stream. When I read Jeremiah Owyang's post, two reflections came to mind: 1. I interviewed some digital natives last week about their use of causes and one thing they mentioned as application fatigue -- don't respond to every request to join a cause and delete them. The interview is here. Fatigue or Plateau?:

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