Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. For many reasons, social media is not at the core for many of these NGOS – and it was important to discuss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. Effective Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

How can create a back channel or other social media tools that can engage people in the room, but also around the world with an interest in the topic? The panelists included: Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Mark Horvath of Invisible People and Jessica Dheere , of Social Media Exchange Beirut in Lebanon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This is happening right now and over the next decade, I think Brazilian nonprofits will have more options at more accessible prices powered by the SaaS model. There’s also so much untapped potential on using social media here in Brazil, especially Facebook and Instagram Ads. 6% donated on #GivingTuesday 2017, 17% did not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about. Modeling the Network Mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. These sessions were focused on sharing best practices and tips for using social media effectively.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Naples, FL: How to Evaluate your Social Media Campaigns. New Orleans, LA: New Media Storytellers: How to get your audience to pay attention. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery - hands on help with social media. Victoria, BC: NGO Summer Social. Tuesday, July 1, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Now in its third year, the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report is based upon the survey results of 5,352 NGOs from 164 countries. The Global NGO Technology Report is a sister report to the Global Trends in Giving Report. The majority of NGO technology research is based on data from NGOs located in developed countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

What are the different models? How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board? On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 5th, here’s a few of the topics we’ll be discussing: Taking Risks with Networks. How and when to catalyze networks? When don’t networks work?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. We’re open to ideas across the technical spectrum from those that might be more advanced to those that apply existing working AI models to social impact use cases. My early career was in international development, working for the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

Most nonprofits simply can’t compete in the crowded marketplaces of social media and digital advertising. The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer data are in, and while we are living through a multi-year decline in public trust, the NGO sector remains the leader in what trust we have left in four major sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Many people left comments reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks, including James Wu from Acumen who graciously expanded his thoughts into this guest post. I work at Acumen Fund and I manage the organization's social media work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s become abundantly clear over the past year – through both successes and mis-steps –that the human rights implications of new technologies that requires thinking by companies and advocates, sometimes together and sometimes vigorously independently (as for example with the rich variety of autonomous media projects).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). I'm thinking again of Steve Bridger's excellent post on the topic and the model diagram he has showing the degrees of engagement in social media. "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 11, 2017

Now in is its third year of production, the Global NGO Technology Report is groundbreaking in that it is the only research project dedicated to studying how charitable organizations worldwide use web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and mobile media to engage and inspire their donors and supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Most of the attendees were at a loss as to where and how to get help for selecting and using new social media tools. ???We Most of the attendees were at a loss as to where and how to get help for selecting and using new social media tools. ???We In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Social media, etc.) The wiki model has great potential for us: since we are always looking to share resources through our website, why not make it easier for the public to contribute great ideas and resources they know about? We'd still like to do more, though, to integrate these tools into the flow of our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. Paul Lamb might.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar. Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. see here ) In celebration of International Women's Day, Joe's Blog showcases some games that are designed to teach us about this issue, along with ways to support NGO's doing work in this area. Social Media Blog points us to column by Walter S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Each day after I gave away the ten dollars I would post it in social media. That’s one of the benefits of social media, you can see what people are saying about the organization, who’s giving to the organization. Does this model apply on a smaller scale? I didn’t expect it to happen and that was never my intention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

The leadership has covered this issue in the NGO sector for years, and were well aware of the depth and breadth, but they were struggling to translate that to a business whose funders were looking for returns on impact and profit. We worked through a day long stakeholder-centered innovation workshop with the test-print of ImpactKit.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

If you craft an engaging letter, donors will read longer and more detailed information than they will in an email or social media post. They may still be much more comfortable with sending a check rather than giving out credit card information online. So, don’t give up on writing a great fundraising appeal letter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I started with an overview of the Networked Nonprofit and shared some thoughts about social cultures and transparency — referencing the models in our book – The Fortress and The Sponge. He made a great point that social media expertise isn’t the only thing that free agents bring to a partnership with an NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" » Sunday May 31 2009 Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to one of our own - the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This is a model collaboration website in the foundation world that attracts many contributors. on mobile computing and social media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We are looking to model the solutions at every level of the work. MK: We really feel that this is a moment where the nonprofit, the NGO movement is changing very rapidly, and we like to think that we are a part of a new generation of how we do social-change work. To us, it's really about collaboration.

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