Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s commendable, but after four years of recession and the likelihood that you generously added social media to your already packed job description without compensation, it’s not sustainable and being overworked and underpaid will only lead to burnout and resentment. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2013

Colleagues Kari Dunn Saratovsky and Derrick Feldmann have published a new book called Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement. The book is a great read for nonprofit leaders of all generations. I found the chapter about motivations and tips for encouraging Millennnials to volunteer very valuable.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Today brings a book that is an indispensable resource for public relations practitioners who want to learn how to navigate the ever-changing landscape of public relations – which has become a far cry from primarily writing press releases and establishing media contacts. New software will bring additional programs to the forefront.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

My friend and colleague, June Holley , has written a much anticipated book, The Network Weaver Handbook. If you are interested in building networks or working as Networked Nonprofit, you need this book right now! To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

There’s been a nice crop of social media books published this spring! So Mondays have become book review days as part of the discipline to keep up with reading. My Zoetica colleague, Geoff Livingston , shared a preview copy of his forthcoming book Welcome to the Fifth Estate and it is a great read!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2016

Being a Happy, Healthy Nonprofit isn’t just about your physical health, it is also about enriching your knowledge and professional development. What better way than to read a book that gives you the best practical information about an important nonprofit area – fundraising. Social media and mobile crowdfunding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Prepare to be inspired by and to learn from the stories of more than 60 highly-successful female CEOs and leaders who are featured in Julia Boorstin ’s book, When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. Her new book is filled with extensive research, engaging stories, and plenty of learning takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

The book is a comprehensive collection of philosophy and advice on social media, strategy, brands, and business integration. What I appreciate are the info graphics that accompany most of the chapters. My favorite part of the book is Chapter 21: The Social Media Marketing Compass: Creating A Social Plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2011

The best how-to books out there combine them. A book that is all concepts and theory, makes it hard to apply the information in the real world. But, if the book is just a collection of disconnected tips, then you run the risk of implementing with out strategy. This book combines the two.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. When should our organization consult a lawyer when we have concerns about our organization’s social media usage?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2010

You’ll find lots of advice and tips from these experts: The authors include Jeff Brooks , Sarah Durham , Jocelyn Harmon , Kivi Leroux Miller , Mark Rovner , Nancy Schwartz , Chris Forbes , Alia McKee Scott and, of course, Katya Andresen. Allison Fine and I have contributed some tips from The Networked Nonprofit chapter on fundraising.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Prepare to be inspired by and to learn from the stories of more than 60 highly-successful female CEOs and leaders who are featured in Julia Boorstin ’s book, When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. Her new book is filled with extensive research, engaging stories, and plenty of learning takeaways.

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Care2

JULY 12, 2012

For most Frogloop readers, the main thing to know is that Cause Marketing has become a major source of dollars for nonprofits large and small -- from First Book and KaBOOM! On August 15th, we’re going to hold a drawing for Frogloop readers to give away two free copies of a major new book (“Good Works!”)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

The Networked Nonprofit Book Club: Anytime, Anywhere Learning – guest post by Lisa Colton. As I read the book, I instantly knew that this was meaty stuff that we’d all need to chew on. Thus began “ Darim’s Networked Nonprofit Book Club ”. We dropped the formal book club structure (Week 2: Question 3 ….”)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Social media thought leader Charlene Li has published another book titled “ The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation ” that provides organizational and business leaders with the skills and path to habit change they need to lead in a connected world. This means sharing stories and visuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. One of our hopes for the book was that it would spark conversation about the need for self-care as part of doing the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

I was invited to a briefing session with other media and bloggers to learn more. I first head of this book after reading this article in the New York Times back in March, 2013. So many of the ideas resonate that it is one of those books where I’m highlighting and making notes. Interesting food for thought.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

During these past 1-1/2 years, the pandemic inspired many of us to question what we value – an ideal time for, Be Where Your Feet Are , the new book by Scott O’Neil , which lays out the seven principles needed to keep you present, grounded, and thriving in work, home, and everything in between.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

One of my motivations for writing “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ” was to advocate for healthier and happier nonprofit workplaces and I’m happy to see another book that is tackling the monster that is work related stress. Research on Toxic Workplaces. How To Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Steve MacLaughlin and Claudia from Convio were kind enough to each send me a review copy of this new book on fundraising and social networks called People To People Fundraising. So, here's how this book giveaway is going to work. So, what do you need to do to win a free copy of this book? There's a good chapter by Steven R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

That's just about when I discovered Avinash Kaushik's blog, Occam's Razor and his first book on Web analytics. Avinash has just published his second book, Web Analytics 2.0. What I like best is that it takes the mystery out of social media metrics. With social media and on the web, experiments are fast, cheap, and scalable.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 5, 2022

During these past two years, the pandemic inspired many of us to question what we value, therefore, making for an ideal time to read, Be Where Your Feet Are , the book by Scott O’Neil. The book lays out the seven principles needed to keep you present, grounded, and thriving in work, home, and everything in between.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

During these past 1-1/2 years, the pandemic inspired many of us to question what we value – an ideal time for, Be Where Your Feet Are , the book by Scott O’Neil , which lays out the seven principles needed to keep you present, grounded, and thriving in work, home, and everything in between. O’Neil : My knee-jerk reaction is that I was lost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

Note from Beth: My friend Porter Gale has just launched a new book called “ Your Network is Net Worth.” Her book shares the secrets of how to do this. In my book, Your Network Is Your Net Worth , I share several stories that demonstrate the potential impact of mentoring. Your advice can be very action-oriented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My colleague, Steve Heye ,and fellow chapter author for the NTEN book, Managing Your Mission To Meet Technology , created the above slidedeck for a career training workshop at the YMCA. It's about using social networking tools to support your career. If you fall behind just do a dump. DON’T READ EVERYTHING.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

What is your best advice? " It reminded me that Rohit Bhargava 's new book, " Personality Not Included " was just published. " It reminded me that Rohit Bhargava 's new book, " Personality Not Included " was just published. What resources? What has been your experience? Thanks you guys rock!

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

Hi friends, I've been inspired by this community for a long time - from being mentored by Britt Bravo when first starting a little Net2 chapter in Vancouver (which Elijah van der Giessen and team have turned into something huge and magnificently helpful), to being inspired by Amy Sample Ward to grow conversations and dig deeper.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 29, 2022

Today, we flashback to 2021 : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Cindy Leonard asked a great question: How come you don’t have any followers in Washington state?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourced Haircut by Tracy the Astonishing The book I'm working on with Allison Fine includes a chapter on crowdsourcing. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in the newly released Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. The best practice listed below are result of spending the last three years maintaining and building the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. for Nonprofits. Require Approval to Join.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It’s advice most often dispensed to discourage children from squandering their birthday money, but it is perhaps just as appropriate in this context. Some recently completed projects include: • A new business card design for the Surfrider Foundation’s Portland Chapter. • They say, “a penny saved is a penny earned”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

I'm not sure that I have formally announced that Allison Fine and I are working on a book (here's her blog post ). The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. It will also include some practical advice about working more like clouds than towers.

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