Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

A way to connect your org to your community? And just last month, I used Twitter to raise $350 in a couple hours to help send the NTEN staff out for a relaxing excursion. When an org sends an email, the open rate can be low - but when a person sends an email to friends, the open rate is 90%! Clearly it works.but why?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Audio and video have proven to be highly effective media for nonprofits -- and throttling would impact all orgs -- no matter where they fall on the spectrum. This is of particular concern for nonprofits, as so many of them leverage powerful but cost-effective videos or podcasts to bring their messages to supporters. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward, "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" Mobilizing Generation 2.0 What a pain!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

At this year's NTEN conference , the thing I heard the most had to do with message. To that end, CompuMentor/TechSoup has produced a lot of articles on blogging and related technologies like RSS and podcasting. org your personal professional blog or is blogging a part of your job at Compumentor? org as my workish blog.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Get org-wide buy-in. You can also listen to the audio ONLY by subscribing to the NTEN Podcast on iTunes. Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast. Tags: Leadership Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission NPTech NTEN ontc Planning. So what can we do? Get ahead of the change. Create context by tying change to mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Who’s running the parenting/running/makers community/community org, young donors, etc. e-newsletter, Facebook group, most active Twitter persona, podcast weekly discussion channel, YouTube show (has to be one that engages and interviews people, not showcases the host)? Go get that person. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The Thanksgiving Season ushers in the holiday giving season and the NTEN blog offers a sound off about the state of online fundraising. Social Signals launches a podcast series with " From Org Charts to Sitemaps: How Organizational Structure Affects Web Strategy and Implementation."

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

On the NTEN blog, Lauren Giardin says it’s time to Take Charge of Your Editorial Process as Air Traffic Control. This post highlights the success of NTEN’s campaign to re-engage the 24,000 subscribers who had not opened an email from them in the past year. To differentiate rather than compete, begin by surveying the field.

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