Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Otherwise, you waste a lot of time creating meaningless, but cool maps. Who liked each other, who didn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk. What are your tips to help you focus in an age of distraction? Are there tips not on the mind map?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. They can follow up with questions on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Where can network weaving techniques help you unleash the abundance that networks offer. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. I still got heckled by skeptics (and on Twitter no less!).

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. Have any techniques to add to this list? I've charted those – so I know when they occur).

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re an event planner and need to market your event, you might want to take advantage of some free marketing techniques that can really help promote your event. . Your event marketing budget will be distinct from your event budget, and you’ll want to map out how much you can spend for each. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. This is a group of largely self-organizing digital volunteers who use Twitter to respond to all of the major disasters around the world. Twitter uses hashtags. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Stop twittering from your cell phone in the bathroom and use that time to think about how you could be more efficient using a particular social media tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. The Twitter Advocate is someone who is watching the hashtag stream and can verbalize to the room what a question or comment posted on Twitter. I suspect I’m not alone.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This runs counter to short-form trends on TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube that occupy our attention. Elements to include when studying techniques that inspire immediate action and applying those lessons: Analyze effective ad appeals – what motivates rapid response? Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

They also created network maps for each country as well sharing examples using online networks using technology tools. Participants did some hands-on exercises, analyzing their content engagement and consumption on Twitter and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

So, when Mary K Winkler , one of the nonprofit data nerds I follow on Twitter and Senior Research Associate at Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy specializing in performance management told me via Twitter she had just published a new guide on this topic, I had to check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. I've been noticing a new hash tag #npecon floating around on Twitter and just added to my tag list. foundations to aid those affected by the downturn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. Content Curation on Twitter. Getting Started with Content Curation on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Stop twittering from your cell phone in the bathroom and use that time to think about how you could be more efficient using a particular social media tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 This drove traffic. What else would you add to the list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

I've been thinking a lot of about in terms of online social networking strategies and person-to-person fundraising techniques. I wonder if you can map specific tools to specific stages? What techniques? Here's the framework as described by the Social Organization blog: The first stage is the encounter.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The Case Foundation is in the middle of a month-long series called “Gear Up for Giving” to provide social media tutorials to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. Effective Blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Engagement is all about conversation starters on social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. Action is taking any action related to a specific organization goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It helps a network get more specific with the work flow which maps to different online collaboration and social media tools. I want to take a deeper dive into the techniques for real-time monitoring and see if there are methods for rapid learning opportunities. Network purposes adds another layer of clarity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Before I went on Twittered. My colleagues in the audience like Marshall Kirkpatrick and Holly Ross were twittering. I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. What's your strategy map? But jet lag and three lattes makes that difficult.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If someone asks you a question on Twitter, you can only respond with 140 characters. This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. What design techniques do you use to create successful visitor dialogue experiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. I put this question out on Twitter and summarize in the next blog post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Your workshop encouraged us to devise a strategy for using social media, and to tease out what these tools could really mean to our mission, vision, and constituencies -- rather than just, "hurry up and get your org up on Twitter!" Finish the social media strategy map. Setting up a blog. Refine strategy based on listening first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. Social: This is your social media strategy and includes time spent listening, establishing a presence and building a relationship with your targeted audience on social media outposts like Twitter or Facebook, and tracking and adapting your efforts. What else might you add or change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

Here's another Mother's Day Fundraising Campaign on Twitter. One of the earlier examples of this was the HoneyBees Campaign on Twitter sponsored by Haagen-Daaz Ice Cream. platform for donations, creating a combined call to action that asked Twitter users to retweet by donating $10. See Juilos Vasconcellos analysis ).

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

PageSpeed can be optimized through techniques like image compression, browser caching, and minimizing server response times. Beyond backlinks, social media engagement is equally vital, with interactions and shares on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn contributing to increased visibility.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

The evaluation tools and techniques you choose will depend in large part on the message, the method of delivery, and the outcome that you want to measure. Evaluation. Evaluation explains the effects [on the recipients or the environment] that are expected as a result of transferring or exchanging knowledge.". E-mail marketing. Feedburner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If bleeding edge tool, twitter. If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising. Also announced 2.0 Strategy, Wealth Management Edition. Commentary here.

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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. . The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Within minutes, we felt right at home after running into other NTEN Members from MAP for Nonprofits, and NTEN Member Partners from the Center for Nonprofit Stewardship and Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. Check out all the conference presentations and handouts , and the highlights from the Twitter event hashtag: #npim14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. To learn more about it, join the Mozilla crew and friends for a Twitter chat next Monday evening. Chinese Buffet by Drunken Monkey.

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