Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This is the latest in the series. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag ! Marnie tagged more than ten really good useful resources, including FullCodePress. Two tagging related posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2016

PDM incorporates the 15-minute technique of tip #1 and a simple journal system of tags for recording current tasks and managing distractions. For instance, when you begin to work on a task, note this down with a NOW tag followed by the name of your task, then set your timer for 15 minutes. Reconcile at the End of Each Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).   In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study.  World Resources Institute - two of the most savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.  tags: microblog analytics ). tags: webcontent content ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. The focus can involve application of resources, or actually reducing resources. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques. This another area of Steve's interest and expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. Tags: training materials.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

How are they supposed to learn about the latest trends and techniques if they don’t attend conferences or attend association meetings. Make sure they have access to the tools and resources they need. Tags: Management. I understand that some organizations are struggling and the training budget is the first thing to go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Share Links w/Brief Comment : This comes from my daily scanning of resources about social media, nonprofits, and philanthropy and picking out five good links and passing them along with a 140 character annotation. Closing the Triangle : This is a network weaving technique of introducing people in your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

Given that this was two and half hour workshop at the end of a long day at SXSW, I put to use all the interactive training techniques that I have been teaching nonprofit trainers around the world. This year SXSW is offered something new: workshops on a wide range of topics from some of the top people in their industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Tags: wearemedia.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 30, 2009

While it can be a great technique, there are definitely things that work and things that don’t. Tags: Facebook Internet Resources Twitter Website/Internet nonprofit blog carnival. Here’s the April edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival. This month’s theme was Raising Money Online. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

We facilitated over 200 nonprofit techies ( editoral advisory group , subject matter experts , and wiki members ) who contributed ideas, writing, copy-editing, lesson plans, presentations , and knowledge to build an impressive social media knowledge resource for the community. What are some tips and techniques? How do you scale?

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2010

Because you -- and everybody at your organization, for that matter -- can learn the latest and greatest fundraising techniques from some world-class speakers without leaving the comforts of your own office, beachhouse, or bedroom. Tags: ifc international fundraising conference NPTech NTEN Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

You'll find lots of great resources over at Katrin's web site, mobileactive. Tags: social media. We live tweeted using the hashtag #cliclear I also had my n95 and we live streamed some of the presentation. It was a great opportunity for me to learn a little bit more about mobile tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? What are the best resources, including blogs, books, and articles?

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Probably, but given limited resources it's important to get a better handle on the specific value your organization's investment of time and resources on Facebook is delivering toward your bottom line. We forget to answer the question, "Why are we spending resources – staff time, money – on Facebook?” (or

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Look at it as part of your organization: There have always been good reasons to build your social network, but now it is a matter of strategy and applying the techniques of network weaving.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

No Wrong Door: Tools for Non-Profits to Collect & Share Resource and Client Information with One Another (02/17). New online advocacy techniques from the health care reform debate (02/18). Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN. Online Donors: Why They Leave and How to Get Them Back (02/17). Public option or public voice?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

Within the HTML for a web page, all photos and graphics have ALT tags, allowing someone with a sight impairment to hear, via their special audio browser, what graphics and photos are on a page. 
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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

But, that should not stop organizations joining Twitter and empowering staff to leverage organizational talking points, resources and research to better information the conversations there. Are there any tools or techniques in particular that have helped you find or contribute to the conversations taking place across the web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve? Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Learn the techniques of simplify and apply to your social media use. Tags: Information Coping Skills. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 23, 2010

In this way, I have found most nonprofit professional to be more collaborative than combative, very willing to speak candidly about techniques that work for them.&#. What resources do you have that you aren’t taking advantage of? If you’re an AFP member, are you utilizing the resource center?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Participants got to introduce themselves with "just three tags," picking three key words that describe them. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. This is why I always create a wiki with resources, a leave behind - and be open to answer to any questions, especially on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. With limited time and resources, we are often hesitant to make that trade-off. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

Here's some resources. Advice about using the FLIP camera: The Flip Spotlight site has a resource section with lots of tips for using the camera. See 3 Video Guide: This step-by-by video guide goes from the picture to the techniques of story telling and into editing and marketing. Tags: FLIP. FLIP Camera.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

RealHR Solutions – Human Resources. Advancement Resources – Managing Culture Change. RealHR Solutions: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Human Resources. Plus, the resources section on their website has a library full of information to help your nonprofit succeed. Aly Sterling Philanthropy – Capital Campaign Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This is a fairly small staff, with limited resources. Techniques for More Engagement. Tags: Experimentation Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design Facebook. This is an interesting process of spreading the expertise and way of working to all parts of the organization. A Couple of Useful Tools To Streamline Workflow.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Listening 101 – A few more useful resources: Five Tools I Use for Listening by Chris Brogan. What tips can you share with us about your listening techniques? I’ll respond to everything as will some of the great readers here. 5 Free Tools for Personal Reputation Management by Dan Schawbel. Have I left anything out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. . I've written endlessly about the techniques of listening, metrics, reflection and reiteration. Tags: Books. So, here are my questions: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. I also try to scaffold Webinars - and give more overviews and point people to the presentation for links, resources, and more self-directed learning. . How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

So, since I have a short window to play with this camera, I've been hunting for inspiration and resources to get started exploring its possibilities. Here's a few how-to resources that relate to the camera and software that were used to create the On the Road: Tanzania video blog. Their how-to and training resources are top notch!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

One of our most valued nonprofit resources is our time, especially in these days of tighter budgets and cutbacks in funding. by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve? Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Do you need to prune?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Limited time and resources for maintaining and creating content on one hand, and a desire to get started. The secret sauce: Very focused objectives for your Fan Page and a selective strategy. To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. Tags: facebook metrics.

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