Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Using the devices to gather feedback, collect data, and interact with communities we serve. The issue contains lots of practical advice, an infographic of the NTEN benchmarks study, and and more. Mobile: How we collect and share information via mobile will be increasingly important.

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.orgSource

JUNE 19, 2024

I have the luxury of being able to position my attention strategically across the business. Or provide advice on analytics surrounding products and services.” Preparing for the Future Looking ahead, Thad envisions a future where traditional taxonomy and meta-tagging give way to more sophisticated AI-driven content interactions.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

But by paying close attention to your team’s emotions and behavior, you will improve your ability to put staffers in the right seats and keep them engaged and motivated. In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization. Of course, it’s important to consider skills. That last bullet is important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

You could keep slogging ahead doggedly, or you could take some advice from the president who led the United States through the Great Depression, helped create the United Nations, and brought you the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination. 5) Keep track of what works and what doesn’t. Try to figure out why.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

But attention to the infrastructure’s nuts and bolts is also important. Why is this extra attention important? She offers this advice, “Association staff and management are sometimes too close to their systems, processes, and people to clearly see areas for improvement. In the tech world state-of-the-art doesn’t exist.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

It provides context for successfully managing your behavior and the way that you interact with others. Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ” brought EI to popular attention. Reactions to your advice or feedback often surprise you. EI is not a new concept.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I’ve told these stories before, but I’m referring to them again because they highlight advice that can help associations find stability when chaos threatens. However, those interactions tend to be transactional and transitory rather than mutually supportive. Take my advice and make finding your safety net mission-critical.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

We surveyed over 700 nonprofits to find out what advice they’d give themselves and others about fundraising in the new normal. If you don’t have a plan in place for thanking, communicating, and interacting with donors regularly, it will be more challenging to get them to respond during a crisis. What would you do differently?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations. The latter requires a different type of attention and whole new set of information coping skills.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Throughout the pandemic, I fielded calls from colleagues asking for advice on a range of issues. However, we also realized that remote work is here to stay, and like the dog that needs a walk, interpersonal relationships are going to continue to require deliberate attention. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And then theres Good Inside , which has become a go-to resource for parents seeking guidance and advice from expert coaches, along with a robust online community. The app gives busy parents on-demand access to scripts and other personalized guidance, drawing on Kennedys expertise and advice from other parenting coaches.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

They are the ones interacting with the system daily and can offer practical insights into what works and what doesn’t. These networks consist of individuals who have faced similar challenges and can offer advice based on their experiences. Monitor the performance closely, paying attention to user feedback and system behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Post a variety of different media types, photographs and visuals get attention, shorter status updates, and curated links. The art of writing good teaser headlines is critical to getting more interaction. Human interest stories and good news from the organizations generated more interaction than others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. It was delivered in two sessions. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

During a hectic work day where many can only squeeze in a lunch break between firing off emails, it can be hard to know if you’re making your donors feel appreciated or if you’re giving them the impression that they’re getting copy and paste interactions. What advice do you give young people? What’s your proudest accomplishment? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

The main thesis in the book is that in a networked world success depends on how we interact with others. You probably spend many of your waking hours helping others, connecting people who can benefit from knowing each other, and offering mentoring and advice.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

We designed our space to encourage interactions between people from different groups who might not otherwise run into each other.”. Our ‘flying desks’ mean people can work standing or sitting, depending on how the mood takes them, and we have quite the arsenal of Nerf guns – helpful if you need to get someone’s attention.”.

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Candid

AUGUST 21, 2024

Many have pointed to social media as the cause of our shorter attention spans, although movie and television shots have also become shorter. For example, during grantseeking week on the Instagram stories, we provided tips on finding the right funder, quizzes on grant types, and short videos with grantseeking advice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? Megan: Flexibility and enthusiasm for an ever-changing field that requires constant attention is key to anyone involved with social media. Dupe: Have a team to support you. Anything else?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By reading the book, you'll learn how to ensure growth strategy is aligned at every level of your company, from boardroom initiatives to daily customer interaction. This means your salespeople, who interact directly with your customers as part of their core function, need to fully understand your strategy.

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Engadget

MARCH 13, 2025

As a daily smartwatch wearer and consumer gadget reviewer, Im offering you my completely free advice on what Id like to see on the next Apple Watch SE. Turns out, if the watch reliably and quickly snaps to attention when I flick my wrist, AOD isnt as crucial. It was irritating to simply check the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. This chapter and the subsequent advice in the book about going on data/information fasts always left me with a lingering question. The memorable tagline : This is your brain.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The fundraiser’s main image is one of the first things others will see when the fundraiser is shared on social media platforms, so it’s important it conveys the right message and grabs the attention of potential donors. Word of mouth: Use any social interaction as an opportunity to advocate for your fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

We often see disclaimers to live blog posts like this one by Nancy White of Full Circle Online Interaction Blog. ???Normal According to Seth Godin's I'm liveblogging this: "The act of writing things down triggers different areas of our brain, it focuses attention, it makes it easier to remember things."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Each year it provides an overview of the current landscape, points to major trends, and directs your attention to horizons where you can expect some important breakthroughs in. Infographics include cool interactive maps, Venndiagrams of apparently unrelated events, and trend lines everywhere. for public good. the coming year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. Stories need to be compelling, immersive, human, funny, or provocative to capture attention. The audience laughed. Content is king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Magic happens when social entrepreneurs, nonprofits leaders, technologists, and young people are brought together for a high energy, creative, and interactive event that exposes everyone to new ideas and stories. I was so happy to hear the story of how the event got started and the beginning of the network from Fernanda Bornhausen Sa.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Communicate your values at every customer interaction. Content -- which basically means whatever the company offers -- products, services, food, advice, or information. And, be sure to pay more attention to the experience and feeling your content creates than the actual content. "An How you bring people closer together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2012

This is a basic file that allows you to work on your layered cover photo with a basic overlay of how the Profile picture might overlap and interact with it. No one likes to draw attention to themselves during a rehearsal. And, you need to think about the cover image design in the context of your overall content strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

The only time we reach out to them is when we ask them for money.&# His advice was to schedule “heart time.&# – That is meet with your donors and engage with them — share a story that isn’t linked to an ask. What terrific advice for social media strategies too. Put them on the donor list.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 19, 2014

Don’t forget that these tools should be used in conjunction with networking offline as well, since they help add to your in-person interactions that are often the most effective at generating a strong bond with your contacts. It’s all about creating a large quality network of contacts you can rely on, and who can rely on you.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

AI may fundamentally change how we interact with information—even what we think a website looks like may be totally different in a year or two. This flexibility, in turn, allows space to prioritize creative, visually interesting, and attention-grabbing designs at a much faster pace.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The European startup’s flagship claim for the data-ingesting bot-builder platform is it’s capable of automating up to 80% of customer support interactions. ” Having multilingual smarts remains an advantage, with ultimate.ai’s virtual agents able to handle interactions in over 20 languages at this point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. " What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. Too other must-read blogs are Getting Attention by Nancy Schwartz and Spare Change by Nedra Weinrich. That's about it from for now.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

By paying close attention to these special occasions, you create a lasting memory of appreciation and recognition. Building bonds: Fostering strong connections through meaningful interaction In the world of nonprofits, cultivating personal connections means a lot.

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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? I am a member of the Generation Next current cohort IV and during our interactions and conversations with these speakers, we were not limited to the confines of the meetings. Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Here’s some terrific advice from Sarah Axelson. There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. Group interaction, discussion and sharing. When is the last time your organization held a staff retreat?

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