Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Social Media Lab: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit. As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I encounter a lot of social media skeptics who ask me pointed questions. What if your goal is large scale systemic change, why bother with social media?". A few weeks back I met Melinda Venable, Associate Director Digital and Ethnic Media at Resource Media who told me about the ClimateChangeUS Twitter strategy. .

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

Through targeted marketing and community engagement strategies, Giving Days reach a broader audience and introduce new individuals and potential supporters to the organization’s work. You can leverage social media platforms by sharing engaging content, impact stories and calls to action.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: Gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform. Will your gamification highlight your event sponsors?

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform. Know Your Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I’ve been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects – from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. Specific examples of social media best practices from organizations with Summer Learning Programs.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform. Know Your Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. I also got a chance to spend some time with Thomas Taylor , the Alliance's nonprofit technology in-house guru and social media whiz who turned me to twitpic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . The Audience As Part of the Presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. Social Instructional Design.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 25, 2023

This can be the hardest part of configuring Google Analytics because it requires adding a Google Analytics tag to your website. Check out this blog post from Semrush to read detailed instructions for adding Google Analytics to your website. You’ll just need to add your Measurement ID to the correct field on your CMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Here’s some easy install instructions. A big time-saver, but may be boring for your audience if use Twitter a lot, or if your Twitter content is different from your FB page focus. Selective Tweets allows to you to selectively post a status update on your Facebook Page from Twitter simply by adding the hashtag “#fb”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ask them to be ready to share and challenge their friends and give them some sample social media posts they can use. Start gathering stories, statistics, videos and pictures that you can tag for reuse on #GivingTuesday. Engage your supporters – tell them you have something special coming for #GivingTuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

Therefore, Instagram = the fastest growing nonprofit community engine on social media. This opens a new, young, diverse and growing audience to nonprofits and NGOs. See instructions for doing a live video. Engaging with supporters + influencers goes a long way. A little love goes a long way.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. 34% of nonprofits have paid for advertising on social media. Heading Tags. Image Alt Tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. It's called " Five Level of Social Media Response." It's quite funny.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Think of it as TiVo ® for Social Media on the Internet: People can get precisely what content they want, whenever they want it. Assume podcast listeners are also receiving updates from you via other channels, like eNewsletters, print, blogs, and other social media such as Facebook messages from your org’s group page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). First, exhibits that invite self-expression appeal to a tiny percentage of museum audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Many of my presentations are training, so it is also thinking through the instructional delivery. It's the first part of a speech or presentation. That's the most important part of your presentation because you need to grab the audiences' attention. Tags: powerpoint. Next month will include NTEN's NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. There's nothing like having an audience to see where you got inside your own head too much. My colleagues in the audience like Marshall Kirkpatrick and Holly Ross were twittering. Tags as a metric. What worked?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). First, exhibits that invite self-expression appeal to a tiny percentage of museum audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Attracts a younger (and perhaps more generous audience?). He does mentioned that it takes an online promotion strategy to build an audience and that blogs should be part of the strategy. He does mentioned that it takes an online promotion strategy to build an audience and that blogs should be part of the strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. You can also tags. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

By leveraging multiple communication channels—email, mobile, direct mail, websites, social media, paid and earned media, SEO, and more, you expand your reach to engage new donors and supporters. When you go where your donors are, you expand your reach to a larger potential audience. Why is it important for nonprofits?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Teens are perceived as more interested in technology-mediated experiences and more familiar with social technologies in particular than their adult counterparts.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By thinking through your fundraising strategy before October 1, you can collect your stories and integrate your efforts, keeping your messaging and images consistent through mail, email, social media, events, and any other channels you may use. So, what does an integrated year-end fundraising campaign look like? A Bench is Not a Bed .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion comfort visitors. What do you think? Is "doable evangelism" something we should strive for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Research to incorporate in instructional materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

In my opinion, websites need to have more instruction on how educators can make use of the site." Note to self: Time to rethink the old 1998-99 version of " Zen and the Art of Internet Searching " to incorporate tags/blogs). If you have, I would like to know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog ). Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. Social Learning In Webinars. Introduction. Additional resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

(My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. 1: Identify the Audience You Want Reach and Know What Motivates Their Giving.

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