Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. For those of us who work on social media and networks, “content fried” is an occupational hazard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

This is especially important if you want to be effective using social media for your organization, but it is bigger than that. Having a networked mindset as you approach your daily work can help you get better results. Social media tools can help you easily connect with people who have the knowledge, resources, and ideas to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It makes me miss the optimism from a decade ago about the rise of social media and social network platforms. He provides techniques to help you answer a simple question, “Does this deserve my attention?” How is brain hacking of social platforms impacted you personally or other nonprofit professionals?

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NTEN

JANUARY 9, 2012

We're less than 3 months away from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , NTEN's signature three-day gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. OMG WTF: Engaging Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media. Technology as a Catalyst for Openness.

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NTEN

JANUARY 9, 2012

We're less than 3 months away from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , NTEN's signature three-day gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. OMG WTF: Engaging Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media. Technology as a Catalyst for Openness.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

With so much information coming at us from social networks, web sites, emails, and other digital sources, we can no longer afford to just whine about it – content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information. They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages.

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NTEN

JANUARY 9, 2012

We're less than 3 months away from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , NTEN's signature three-day gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. OMG WTF: Engaging Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media. Technology as a Catalyst for Openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Create Good Social Media Habits. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 5: Make sure your content has a social life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2015

That isn’t a good thing if you work in the social good sector. Over the past fews years, with the rise of online social networks, there has been much written about how to cope (or not) with too many people, too many status updates, too much email, and being too busy. It can drain your passion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

Why has this notion demanded so much attention and effort and become a “must have” skill for our professional wheelhouses? It’s simple: networking is necessary to progress at any level in business and is especially paramount for nonprofit leaders. There is also networking within these particular groups.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

The danger in not making the distinction between the type of cursory review most offices do and the kind of work performed by a professional prospect research unit is that they miss opportunities, ask for too little and, because they are spending time looking things up rather than seeing donors, they ask less often than they could.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Maura Thomas , a speaker and trainer on productivity for nonprofits and author of Personal Productivity Secrets , explains personal productivity is not time management, a 20th century idea that has outlived its usefulness in a world of email and social networks. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Emergence: This is a term that I first heard from Eugene Eric Kim when talked about how making your ideas or content transparent on social networks like Twitter was similar to what ants do when they leave tracks so other ants can follow. What do you think the scaffolds should be for learning in public as a field or network?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. They may be infected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For some staff members, content curation can be professional of learning. Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill. Storyfy — Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. Here’s a few curation tools that are easy to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Surveys are also a useful tool for keeping up-to-date demographic information about location, professional field, and more. While the internet is an incredibly popular way of communicating with alumni, classic direct marketing techniques such as Direct Mail and telemarketing continue to form the backbone of many fundraising programs.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Surveys are also a useful tool for keeping up-to-date demographic information about location, professional field, and more. While the internet is an incredibly popular way of communicating with alumni, classic direct marketing techniques such as Direct Mail and telemarketing continue to form the backbone of many fundraising programs.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I also offer training workshops on the following topics: From Me to We : Creating visitor social networks around museum content Gaming the Museum: Using game mechanics and techniques to design engaging visitor experiences The Participatory Museum : IT-free ways to turn visitors into users and involve staff at all levels as content generators and moderators (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

WeAreMedia Choose Your Own Adventure Webinar where we look at strategy maps and took deep dives into tactics like listening/engagement, spreading buzz , storytelling , and social networking. Deep Engagement and Social Content Strategies : Ongoing deep engagement and building relationships is the heart and soul of social media success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

Which is why it is so important to have a professional website. People do judge a book by its cover, and they judge an author's professionalism and quality of writing by the look of their website. Question: What are the primary reasons for an author to engage a publicist even if they glean great tips and techniques from your book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Create Good Social Media Habits. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them. The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign. Friends + Family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m honored to be part of the Schusterman Philanthropic Network and Jim Joseph Foundation for #NetTalks , a free, five-part webinar series for Jewish professionals who want to tap into the power and potential of alumni networks. It could also be about volunteering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. The book is available on Amazon. The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. I work at Acumen Fund and I manage the organization's social media work.

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Care2

OCTOBER 16, 2008

This is a 7-part series of short videos designed to introduce nonprofit professionals to new ways in thinking about online video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

So, fellow nonprofit communications professionals, I remixed David's scenario and replaced the word "corporate" with "nonprofit." " And I changed the word blogger to social networker or facebooker. What do you do as the social networking manager?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2009

From their website : The NOI runs the only progressive advocacy and campaign training program focused on cutting-edge online organizing techniques (e.g. writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. What is BootCamp?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

Below are the five hats and please feel free to download the complimentary Results Curve™ e-book if you are interested in the implementation details of these techniques. Oh, and don’t forget to check the social networks. Welcome to The Five Hats of Highly Accomplished People! Hat #1: The Focus Hat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 19, 2007

A few years back, SEO professionals emphasized keywords. Nowadays I'm seeing more emphasis on " organic SEO " -- using the actual semantics of the page, rather than arcane techniques, to increase page ranking. And in terms of linking, this approach stresses the importance of social networking tools as well as Search.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Plan ahead and try out new techniques for online engagement, but don't be afraid to switch direction mid-stream. Just because an event is a professional activity doesn't mean it can't be fun.

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