Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Michelle shared a story about project she was managing that failed and the insights that it generated. It was a particularly powerful story because it involved being honest with a funder who had supported the failed project. This leads to deeper insights and improvements of what you’re doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” When I ask an NGO “who are you trying to engage with?”, Imagining Supporters with User Stories. Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. ” Facebook Ads as Filters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. The peer assist session was designed based on the sticky notes of questions that participants wanted to address. Group Photo with Certificates. Poster Sessions.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

If you answered yes to all of those questions, keep reading! The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). b) Story Submission.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

According to the Global NGO Online Technology Report , Millennials are most inspired to give by social media. Provide fundraising success stories. While success stories may have provided ideas, these sessions will let fundraisers “ask the experts” and get their questions answered. Treat Fundraisers Like VIPs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

But is that the end of the story? "But the more pertinent question is this: is the security of a cloud service weaker or stronger than you currently have? when asked open-ended questions about the disadvantages of the cloud. Richard Cooper of Charity Technology Trust (CTT) in the U.K. "No doubt Dropbox’s.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

We’ll draw from recent experiences in setting up an active advisory group made up of NGO partners from all corners of the globe; our network-wide campaign to survey NGO technology trends in 24 languages; and, our own technology solution to communicating with these partners to deliver services in 37 countries. Lara Franklin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? There are different types of NGOS in the Arab World.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Q&A Interview Nadira Hira: This question''s from Twitter. Maybe you shouldn''t look for an NGO "out there" but ask their employees and own audience what causes THEY care about. AA: If the founder''s story and genesis story is the founder traveled somewhere and had a very visceral experience, maybe it''s all right.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Understanding the Human Stories to Take Action. While data points might seem like a rather impersonal way to tell these stories, done right, data visualizations such as the ones SAP has made available at www.7billionactions.org

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2006

(My advice to the podcast's producers is to put in some success stories too, or listeners will suffer compassion fatigue after a while and stop listening). Foundations need to see nonprofits and NGO's having a podcast or blog, in addition to traditional communication tools, as part of the nonprofit or NGO's mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

Based on our discussions, he helped us create a story with scenes. She comes along the way from Phnom Penh and asks her the whole story. As a result for their efforts, one NGO staff finds and reads the content of the blog, and feels that he must do something to helps her. Denith was our very capable group leader.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Actually, that's not a dumb question. In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. Here is what we've found out about how drone technology is being used to benefit humanity. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

This NGO is at the initial stages of its development and is yet to be registered. I like how video blogging can build a bridge to the west for small ngos working in a developing country. I like how video blogging can build a bridge to the west for small ngos working in a developing country. and founded by Gaurav Sharma.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. Here are some ways you keep your supporters engaged during the event: Offer a prize or a registration fee donation match for the team that gets the most questions right. Ask yourself these questions: Who interacts with you the most?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

When I was in Cambodia last summer, John hosted a blogger’s meet up. When learned about Giving Tuesday , he offered to share an inspiring story about giving back. Give 10 Every Day: An Inspiring Story of Giving Back – Guest Post by John Weeks. It’s a challenge to get unbiased information about NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2006

Caroline was kind enough to answer a few questions for me as part of an e-interview. Please share a success story from your work. If you know a Solutionary Woman who works at a nonprofit or NGO who you think I should profile, please email me at britt at brittbravo dot com with their name, organization and contact info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . Many of my presentations include some visual humor and funny stories. NGOS in India.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Getting Started With Your Nonprofit Business Plan The most common question we get about business plans is “where do we start?” A good plan answers a number of who, what, when, where questions like these: What problem is your nonprofit trying to solve? Or maybe your nonprofit is actually an NGO based in another country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The question is "When is video a good. ForumOne Communications blog answers the question " How do you engage 5% of your audience that are most important to you ?" 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

What's one of your favorite FORGE success stories? He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. Along the way he will stop in at villages, tell his story, talk about African unity, and talk about the way that wars are so destructive, but in a way that refugees can be powerful forces for change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Each speaker did an excellent job answering the question, “ What does the future of social look like? ” Each presenter shared inspiring stories and thoughts about the future of social good on their particular platforms without giving a sales pitch. His talk was a powerful combination of human stories and data.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? All the news stories I saw on this urged us to not confuse the web with the Internet. Among the plethora of news stories on this, I recommend Der Spiegel’s frank interview with Berners-Lee.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. They want to hear stories of people that look just like them. They ask too many questions, and they want too much engagement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

The organization's founder, Brande Jackson, took the time to answer my Solutionary Women e-interview questions. Well, as I am answering these questions, I’m getting bounced around by some nasty turbulence somewhere over Tennessee! Can you give an example, or tell a story of a time when you felt like your work had a positive impact?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. When we look at environmental challenges, we can't avoid the question of women's role within designing the solutions. Women are disproportionately affected by environmental toxins.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

For starters, I’m addressing this question on the basis of 30 years in direct mail fundraising and 15 years in fundraising online. While direct mail may be declining in some markets since its heyday in the 90s it is still an effective form of direct communication to raise funds and the NGO brand. nonprofits in 2008.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

But the way I like to work is just put your stuff in the chat, put your questions in there or the Q&A, that’s even better, because it doesn’t get kind of lost and then everyone can vote things up. So if you do have questions, try to put them in the Q&A. I will keep an eye on the chat. Put them in the chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? When I read the papers, listen to the news, hear stories through my network of friends who are activists all over the world about injustices, I get really fired up and want to do whatever I can to help!

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