Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

We focused on digital transformation because incorporating digital has become essential for delivering on all aspects of a nonprofit’s mission, not just fundraising and communications but program delivery and governance. Each section lists best practices and processes for being a digital nonprofit. Opening Exercise.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques. Imagine your photography teacher able to explain different shot angles, subjects, apertures, and lighting techniques with nothing more than well-crafted prompts.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Every nonprofit website should include key features to optimize fundraising, promote brand awareness, and attract volunteers. While many nonprofits need low-cost or free options to handle their websites, Nonprofit Hub said every nonprofit website should treat itself like an investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2013

That’s the summary of a post I wrote last week for the Harvard Business Review Blog called “ Go Ahead Take A Failure Bow.” CALL TO ACTION: Place a Little Bet at Your Nonprofit and Share It (You could win a Microsoft Surface or Other Schwag from the Case Foundation). 13ntcbets ow.ly/k24ok

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.” platform and started following and learning from some of best curators on the planet and in particular, Robin Good. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

I'm working on workshop curriculum and a presentation about ROI and Nonprofit Technology for Legal Services Conference. That brought me to the question of "What are effective ROI storytelling techniques?" The full report is here ) I wonder if all or some of these are relevant for nonprofit technology? You need stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

If you’re motivated to go deeper on LinkedIn after reading this summary, you will want to check out my curated list of nonprofit and LinkedIn resources here. Nonprofits Miss Out on the Power of LinkedIn: Learn How to Tap It – Guest Post by Geri Stengel. He’s on the board of several nonprofits that host galas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Take a look at any nonprofit dashboard and the most effective ones probably have an organizational process that lies beneath. By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Leverage Nonprofit Fundraising Best Practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Movement is better than sitting.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The Nonprofit Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide explores the fundraising planning process and breaks down each of the necessary elements that will allow you and your team to elevate your next campaign. Fundraising plan summary. We created this guide to help you build just that. Choosing your team. Sizing up your assets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The themes we will cover are: Why 1 Tweet by Nonprofit CEO is Worth More Than 1,000 Staff: Benefits, Challenges, Solutions. Lean on Your Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. If you’re like most nonprofit folks, you’ve probably made a few New Year’s resolutions, including being more effective at your job. How are nonprofits folks strengthening their personal productivity muscles in 2015?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. Here’s a summary of what I learned: Do You Have The Basics of Good Meetings Covered? Our tips are here. A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

I queried nonprofit colleagues, asking for their best advice. Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Many nonprofits use EventBrite for this purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Sean Stannard-Stockton , author of the Tactical Philthanthropy blog, has posted a podcast interview with Daniel Ben-Horin, founder and president CompuMentor and TechSoup where they talk about the NetSquared project and the usefulness of "wisdom of crowd" techniques for nonprofits and philthanthropy. The NpTech Summary.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

According to the Urban Institute’s latest report on the nonprofit sector, fully one third of U.S. Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Most Nonprofits Lack The Software They Need. It has some good case studies and much more detailed info than this summary.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The second wave, however—coming after the launch of Google’s Bard and Microsoft Bing—has resonated more broadly and has implications and potential applications for nonprofit organizations. Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. Is it just a fad?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Google announces " Broadcast Your Cause, " a nonprofit channel on YouTube. And, if your nonprofit does not have a video camera to create content, sign up to get a free one from the Flip Video Camcorder Giveaway , in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative. He also shares the key points of his presentation here.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Starting and growing your organization is a lot easier when you have a nonprofit business plan. Maybe they don’t know what a nonprofit business plan can do to help them. There’s also a common misconception out there that because your organization is labeled a “nonprofit” it doesn’t need to operate like a business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Google has been reaching out to nonprofits for its Google Earth product over the last few months. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For the last several years, we have been researching the ways AI can, should, and will be used to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations. We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories. Want to learn more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits. NTEN – E-Nonprofit Benchmark Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar. Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

You research your donor as an individual, but you also have a broad depth of general research on the kinds of people who donate to your nonprofit as a whole group. And then, connect their existing passions and desires to our nonprofit’s cause, using the same language they use. In Summary. How do you get to that point?

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

My head is spinning from a rapid infusion of knowledge gleaned from three days at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco. (My Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.". Disclosure: Forum One built the site.):

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

I blurbed this book with, “If you are looking for a recipe book for tips and tactics to integrate mobile and social media to round out your nonprofit’s marketing plan, look no further than this book.” Everyone should participate — an idea that embodies the spirit of networked nonprofits! Internet Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

One of my key themes for the year is to look at failure and learning – and will also have a chance to dive into a conversation at the upcoming COF Conference with colleague Peter Sims , Author of Little Bets and founder of BLKSHP. His book has a great summary of the research out there on what is failure. Here’s how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

It isn't all about technical issues like compression, but it is also covers aesthetics -- for example, with video blogging using the technique of moment capture. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. million nonprofits, including their IRS Form 990 information.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Yesterday I made the case that women, not men, have become the most vital market segment to reach, not only for consumer brands but for nonprofit organizations seeking to change the world. Armed with this information, smart nonprofit marketers will realize that we cannot afford to be gender blind in our outreach efforts. Contact us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.) CEO Kintera steps down.

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