Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

As Geoff writes in the book, “an understanding of what makes people fall in love with causes, products, services and ideas.&# That takes the discipline of listening to ensure that you understand your community, value them, and build a meaningful experience. These include: Conversation Starters. Shareability.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The survey gave us a basic sketch, but the color and texture emerged during follow-up focus group conversations. They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of September 13th).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog here , or read the copied post below. As organizations or community builders active online, working to practice and create quality engagement, we are often trying to guide, collect or herd conversations and interactions into spaces that we have created or monitor closely.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Conversely, how can other CSR teams better use technology to further their own CSR missions? Join @TechSoup , @plus_socialgood , the United Nations Foundation , and special guest CSR representatives for an important conversation on the evolving relationship between CSR teams and civil society organizations. Pacific time, 1 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I also discussed the importance of laying out the supporter journey and having metrics to understand and improve conversion rates. Building personas allows you to have empathy for the audience, to put yourself in their shoes. Empowerment. What would you add to this conversation about donor engagement? Transparency.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

Join the Conversation. Join @NTENorg , @TechSoup , @plus_socialgood , and the United Nations Foundation for a critical conversation on effective community engagement. How should organizations harness their online communities? Join us as we go around the globe. This chat will start on February 2, 2016 at 7:00 a.m. Eastern time, 3 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Really looking forward to this conversation! Empowerment is unconditional. It’s always better to build too little than too much. Find cheap, easy ways to try your ideas out with real people in real situations before committing lots of resources. Be specific, define the issue, problem or idea, and let the answers pour in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D. His opening remarks and conversation were inspiring to say the least. Carson , Ph.D., he asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. Do you have ideas or feelings about the questions above?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. Do you have ideas or feelings about the questions above?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I recently had a conversation with a friend and colleague about what I perceive to be a revolution in progress. It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Building Networks of Partners. Have you used measurement to make the case for building social media capacity? How does your organization use A/B testing to improve conversion rates? We used: I love grass-fed beef. This is a hallmark of Networked Nonprofits. More detailed suggestions for A/B testing with images here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2008

s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC). s Technology Empowerment Centre. This project builds upon the work of the Blogs for African Women (BAWo) initiative; an earlier project aimed at introducing blogging to young Nigerian girls. The idea is to have a conversation with the participants. Of course, said yes.

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Africa Empowerment Mentoring Tools 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. We embed the product donation with a connection to the community and capacity building.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

I like the idea of using the term "tool kit" in the title or tagline" Joe Solomon said "Make sure your domain name matches your name. Nonprofit Social Media Empowerment Guide. NpTech Social Media Empowerment Guide. Empowered MEdia MEdia Empowered Empowered by Media SMEG (social media empowerment guide).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Organizing is about building relationships and mobilizing people around a cause. Just like any real world activist, motivation is triggered by empowerment and shut down with arrogance. Interaction: Asking questions and commenting back when someone has an answer is creating a “conversation.” Twitter does exactly that.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. rootwork : I strongly believe list building w/ petitions etc. realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership.

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Campaign Org Social Media Measure 108

Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Currently, we are working on building clientele in Doha, Qatar as we continue to work with longtime partners the Supreme Education Council and the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology. Forum One found that it had a huge role to play as staff engaged in conversation and built connections with D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content. Spectra Gram: This is a full group exercise that you can use to bring out ideas or different views on the topic. Exercises: These can be collaborative exercises, having a group brainstorm ideas together, can be effective.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. Build community. I''ve gotten more comfortable and more confident with the idea of the museum as political body that advocates for empowerment and social bridging. Empowerment? Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world. and "why?"

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Once we've identified assets and needs, we seek out collaborators and project ideas. We never start with the project idea and parachute in. We start with the community and build to projects. If you are reading this via email and wish to respond, you can join the conversation here. She surveyed existing local programs.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. So to give you an idea, we were a 3 person organization before Puerto Rico and we’re still a small organization. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action. The Levine Museum model comes closer to the more nebulous "get engaged" empowerment goal of some museums, but does so by providing a practical tool for engagement. But for what actions can museums advocate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I will do an overview connecting the idea of metrics to poetry. Nonprofit RockStars: Using Video to Share Your Message by David King Video is a great way to share your organization's message, start conversations, and move people to action. Should you build from scratch or use a commercial solution? THIS is Iron Chef ???

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The idea of building capacity, particularly in an economic climate that is harsh, is a huge challenge for us.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

A few months ago, I pitched this panel idea to Steven and he immediately got behind it. And so I got to have that conversation with her just because we already had an appointment on the books and. I had already been having conversations over the months prior to that with some of my mentors about making a switch to consulting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I was interested to attend this conference to get a sense for the differences in philanthropic culture in Europe, to build awareness for the museum, to make connections, and to explore opportunities for me to present at future conferences. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

initiative – an effort to galvanize the technology community to assist civil society organizations (CSOs) across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to harness the latest information and communications technology (ICT) advances to build their digital capacity. Unfortunately, that was not possible.

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Technology Empowerment Internet 111

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was interested to attend this conference to get a sense for the differences in philanthropic culture in Europe, to build awareness for the museum, to make connections, and to explore opportunities for me to present at future conferences. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Karen Bloom, Project Kesher, leads a monthly group walk at county park across the street from their building. Here’s what I learned: Karen learned about the importance of self-care as part of her organization’s work on issues of women’s empowerment and women’s equality in Eastern Europe and Israel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Whether they implement a system, or build it, they will inevitably have the job of supporting that technology. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Second, Empowerment. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

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