Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. For the breakout sessions, we had a few technical glitches, but kept rolling with the punches!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. It almost always naturally leads to discussion about how to amplify each other’s voices using social media.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After over 20 years of fundraising, consulting, and teaching nonprofits across the U.S., Bring your supporters together to build stewardship and celebrate the impact you make as a community. Leave a voice message thanking them for their gift and briefly explaining how it will help your organization.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

It is great when we get wins and can celebrate them, and it’s tough when we take a loss and have to re-group and press onward. Raise the Roots is a digital agency providing nonprofits and small businesses with expert digital strategy and support to raise awareness, voices, and money. Advocacy is a long-term calling.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

February is Black History Month and while there are countless ways to honor and celebrate black history throughout the year, we’re giving you a place to start by highlighting eight nonprofits that are making major waves in their communities. Black Teach Project is the definition of “small but mighty.” Black Teacher Project.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 13, 2021

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2021

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2020

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 30, 2020

We’re going to have to teach ourselves and our teams how to stay productive and motivated , even when we can’t be there face-to-face. . Making sure your team feels like they have a voice is extremely important. Establish goals and celebrate achievements. at least for the United States. Challenges to working online.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I believe that this project is a good way for me to use my privilege to be a multiplier and lift up the underrepresented voices in our community.”. You can mentor or teach a class with Tech Forward. Volunteer to support one or more of the thousands of Trailblazers pivoting to Salesforce careers from other industries.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Within an hour (and with a huge helping hand from social media), thousands had mobilized and gathered all over the United States to celebrate, remember, and embrace. The report emphasizes moving away from one stylized corporate message to a natural, multi-voiced approach to connecting with the public. Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 18, 2017

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 13, 2016

Celebrate success. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Praise in public, censure in private.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life. The video Join the Breakthrough Generation from the organization Breakthrough utilizes animation (and celebrity) to a dynamic effect. This is storytelling at its most sophisticated as we see animations and voices come to life.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

You may not currently have much of a voice in these touches. Find your voice so you can lead the charge for bringing together your organization’s donor-facing messaging and interactions in a much more cross-functional way—one that’s productive, optimized, donor-centered, and even joyful. Are they authentic?

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We do not view box office receipts and number of “butts-in-seats” as the only measuring stick by which we celebrate our outcomes. Your Voice Matters! Our organization measures success in terms of how well a program fulfills our mission-driven goals and objectives. Submissions may be edited for length and clarity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

HALF OF ONE PERCENT (yes, I’m raising my voice). Leaders have an obligation, but more importantly, they see real value in ensuring that staff and stakeholders have a voice. And the bottom line is that I came to the nonprofit space to make a difference and have a voice. Let em sink in. We need a new generation of leaders.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2023

I teach my clients that offering warm touches – the little things that warm a donor’s heart and make them feel good – are THE BEST donor retention strategies to keep people giving. I got a voice mail from one of my favorite nonprofits just last week, just thanking me for my support, and I really appreciated it.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

hiring a publicist to oversee the campaign and seeking paid advertisements from corporate sponsors and celebrities. This gave them greater voice in the government. Takeaway: What did the government and nonprofit collaboration in the 1970s teach us? Their effort became known as the “YMCA School” of fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

This day was intended to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. March 8th is International Women’s Day. 2016 is the year that real money and reforms must start to right these wrongs.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This year marked the 10 th anniversary of the Social Good Summit , an annual conference hosted by the UN Foundation, Mashable, 92 nd Street Y and the United Nations Development Programme that celebrates advocacy and activism for social impact.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

Since your staff members are the experts on your organization’s mission and the cause(s) that it’s championing, it will be up to all of you to guide its voice. Thought leadership content helps to establish that voice as you create and share things that showcase expertise, creativity, and unique insights. The key is training.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

Yet Twitter is a great way to build relationships with journalists, organizations that work in the same cause area, and people who care passionately about the type of work you do, including academics, researchers, and celebrities. Use your LinkedIn page to cultivate your organization’s voice and messaging.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

One man (Gordon from Kirkland) told us that "Vi is kind of a celebrity" in the Seattle Chinatown community, which made the rest of us more excited about taking a tour from her. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Give those with responsibility for implementing a program a voice in the decision-making. Although they are not celebrities, by associating themselves with the organization, they embody its values and ethics and their actions can influence the brand’s image. Set goals and performance standards together. Commend and encourage.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And bringing them back year after year has some distinct advantages, one of which is that all of that onboarding and that teaching and the encouragement that you do when you first recruit a participant is a great deal of work for you, but returning participants will need less onboarding and less support. But celebrate them publicly.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Show Some Pride — "So, Continue" Carr is probably most celebrated for this exquisite exchange found in The New York Times documentary, Page One , with the founder of Vice. " Carr also was teaching a journalism class at Boston University at the time of his death. Be a Kind, Nurturing Soul.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We try to teach students to catch the fire through finding their passion to make a difference and sharing warm fuzzies (which take on the physical shape of a cotton ball with googly eyes as seen above in super-sized form) by making other people feel good and valuable. Finally, use video to provide other voices the opportunities to be heard.

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