Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Next month will include NTEN's NTC. I've taught webinars and workshops on how to design and deliver effective training sessions and have written a few blog posts on training and presentation techniques. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story. Andy is a master at storytelling.

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MARCH 26, 2009

That means building a culture of storytelling at your organization. At Mercy Corps, most of our storytellers -- those who provide material for the website and our other public communications -- are field officers and other staff. The best three words I ever heard about storytelling are: Show, don't tell.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

NTEN / Portland, OR / $899. It's a vast, immersive uniquely comprehensive experience for the latest strategies, techniques and innovations in direct response marketing and fundraising. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference / San Diego, CA / $595.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn strategies, tools and techniques to enhance your individual leadership style and talents. NTEN / Washington, DC / $899. It's a vast, immersive uniquely comprehensive experience for the latest strategies, techniques and innovations in direct response marketing and fundraising. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” Readers experience the media through a more customized lens, underscoring the possibility of vertical news coverage and deeper storytelling. Sherry questioned. The news cycle is really short,” explained Chan.

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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. Met Citizen 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) Nonprofit Software Earlier this month, Convio alerted its nonprofit clients of an Online Security Issue as reported by the nonprofit tech blog (be sure to read through the comments), NTEN and TechSoup blog. A new entry into the charity shopping category , is MAATIAM.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attend If You’re: A professional in advancement services, alumni relations, communications and marketing, and fundraising in District II To Register: [link] MARCH NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference Portland, OR, and Virtual March 13-15, 2024 Also known as NTC, this annual event spotlights essential nonprofit technology best practices.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

At frank, we divide our time among great talks by strategists, storytellers and scientists and casual opportunities to connect with other sophisticated communicators over coffee or cocktails. NTEN / San Jose, CA / $650. Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Feb 23 - 26.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

It’s been a few days since I returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. NTEN 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference by TechSoup.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. The Nonprofit Storytelling Conference is unlike any conference you've ever attended. NTEN / Washington, DC / $850. Mexico / SOLD OUT. Nov 10 - 11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. Social Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Results: Money, time, or other tangible tesult that can be converted.

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JUNE 18, 2009

It also consists of an organizational conversation, storytelling, and a written report. Remember, a good, credible ROI process incorporates story telling techniques that are designed to sell the value of the project to decision-makers. Tags: beth kanter Newsletter NPTech NTEN return on investment roi. ROI Story Telling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

provides some great tips on combining dashboards with storytelling. Vanessa Chase gives us some great recommendations in her post, The Seemingly Impossible Task of Getting Your Donors To Care Without Boring Them To Death. Lori Jacobwith’s S haring Boring Data? What’s the Point? Measuring Specific Channels or Campaigns.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Two I’d recommend first are Beth Kanter’s Blog and NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward's personal blog. It covers basic techniques like networking with your existing social media contacts to fancier techniques like using syndication tools like IFTT.com. Digital Storytelling 101: Blogs (TechSoup Canada).

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MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

I've heard Randi speak a couple of times, including this informative webinar hosted by NTEN. My take is that just because we have the tools, a youthful enthusiasm for generosity, and the desire to do something, there is a need for sharing of best practices and techniques. She also included some practical advice.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Storytelling as a technique has been getting a lot of buzz in the nonprofit world. After all, effective visual storytelling relies on the medium matching the message. By Rebecca Hume, Senior Designer, Big Duck. Let me tell you a story. No, better. Let me show you one. And with good reason. photo: jennie Zed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day. Click at the Heartstrings.

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