Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Note From Beth: I’m on my way to Australia and New Zealand lead a series of workshops on Networked Nonprofits and Measurement, culminating with a keynote at this year’s ConnectingUp Conference in Australia, so expect to see a few interesting guest posts. … Read More Fundraising'

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Technology Changes, People Don’t. And, that through this comes learning and insight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. Flickr Photo by Maurice.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. So, I was intrigued with a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

Slide 9 & 10 from " What's Next In Media ?" This week we've been working on the " Strategic Social Media " module for the WeMedia project. In other words, how can your organization's social media strategy co-exist, support, enhance, or dovetail with your Internet marketing communications plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

This social media for the nonprofit sector panel also included David Wilcox of Desigining for a Civil Society and Nick Booth from Podnosh. The points include: (1) In the 5 campaigns I've done, it has evolved to a personal, socially networked fundraising campaign. Right now they're playing the social media game!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether your grassroots organization relies on social networks or thrives on face to face (F2F) contact, these five basic tips will help you achieve your fundraising goals more successfully. Fundraising through dependence on email and social network marketing can be tremendously successful for grassroots organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . The first time open-ended, playful like being on a social network.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2019

We’re the most connected we’ve ever been – with our friends, social networks and even strangers near and far having constant influence and involvement in our daily lives through messaging, social media, in app social tools, online communities and more. By 2020, millennials will make up over half of the workforce.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The following is an excerpt from the newly released Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits and was published in the September 2011 edition of Fundraising Success Magazine (@ frsuccess ). 11 Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager. new media manager, digital marketing manager, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

There is a tension with using social media to support your network. On the one hand, you need to have a clear purpose of what you want to achieve and an understanding of your network members. I did a presentation on social media and nonprofits in the afternoon. Photo by Thiago.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2011

Susan is a nonprofit consultant and social media manager for The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. Most importantly, reaching out to smaller groups or group leaders is more conducive to creating openness and cultivating a feedback loop necessary to gauge and respond to the attitudes and needs of the community.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Last year, Convio , Edge Research and Sea Change Strategies announced the results of a national research study into the charitable giving behaviors and attitudes across Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and Matures. Social media ready for primetime? Where the debate over social networks gets muddy is their role as transaction devices.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are two kinds of measures that we look at: performance and outcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

While organizational adoption of social media tools for external communications strategies is becoming more common, not to mention lots of practical advice such as this recent white paper: The Revolution will be Socialized and the many how-to primers for nonprofits like this one. about Web 2.0 The Shed 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Peter Campbell, publisher of Techcafeteria Non Profit social media maven Beth Kanter blogged recently about starting up a residency at a large foundation , and finding herself in a stark transition from a consultant’s home office to a corporate network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Networking ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . Mission : To do this a new ‘Way-Out” story of self help, of community power and of networks has to become accepted as THE story. .

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

changes in awareness or attitude) or tangible results (e.g. What changes in knowledge, or attitudes, or skills are you looking for, and how might they be measured? RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. and Social Media trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

is an attitude , not a download. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing. Another Social Network on the horizon - Allen Benamer adds his two cents about the Project Agape and the TechCrunch Report and the issue of social networking fatique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook Smart.ly. It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

APRIL 1, 2010

Speaker: Beth Kanter & Allison Fine, Authors, The Networked Nonprofit. Session: The Networked Nonprofit: Using Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change. We think that the nonprofit sector is entering a new and exciting phase of use of social media. Beth: Beth's Blog , @kanter.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. They do a lovely job explaining their presence on social media sites. All social media projects are mission-driven and strongly aligned to institutional goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

My manager/supervisor takes responsibility for shaping the attitudes and relationships within our department. Then, use the web and social networking for research. My manager clearly defines my job responsibilities. My manager/supervisor encourages high achievement by reducing the fear of failure.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

Interestingly, women are very interested in social networking and have evidenced faster growth in the use of Facebook than have men. Both men and women respond well to social networking, depending upon their generation, for it is by age group – not gender – that differences in use appear. Bearman, with H.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online social networks in general? For example: Mobile devices?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online social networks in general? For example: Mobile devices?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Then, use the web and social networking for research. How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Now that’s social engagement #SFBatkid and it’s evidence to the power of social media. In this short episode of Fundraising Fundamentals, How to Use Social Media in Year-End Drive s , Natalie Stamer of St. And we talked. On Friday alone, there were 78,000 tweets and 10,000 photos shared of him.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

To provide a benchmark – or a snapshot of your employees and their attitudes at a certain point of time that you can then compare to future surveys to spot trends. Then, use the web and social networking for research. GEN X Employees -- Think up a list of solutions on their own.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2009

We Are Media. A first-time NTC program based on the toolbox from the We Are Media project, these were a great way for folks to get their social media hands dirty. Mostly, I think we need to do more of these and communicate more effectively about them leading up to the show.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 26, 2009

The experience was the culmination of an election season of escalating intersection between produced events and social media. I could also tune them out at my discretion without being rude, and so I alternately drank at the social media firehouse and focused fully on Obama. I could have both, instantaneously.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

Since the moment that President Obama stated that he supports same-sex marriage, there’s been a flurry of social media activity, both pro and con, on the issue. It’s obvious by now that social media has played a huge role in shaping Americans’ attitudes toward LGBT issues. But I would go a step further.

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