Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Today I attended an informative lunchtime presentation by Chad Nelsen who is the Environmental Director at the Surfrider Foundation where he has worked since 1998. Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He He also said he'd upload his slides on slideshare.). He's currently getting his Ph.D in surf economics!)

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2012

In June, the San Francisco online community meetup group welcomed Maria Ogneva , director of community at Yammer. If openness is not built into your organization’s foundation, it will take some time to make this change, but it is not impossible.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

”, and is the foundation of any successful marketing strategy. The Needham Community Farm is enhancing their relationship with a local pizza shop by offering a chance to win the pizza party. If you visit the websites of most nonprofits, you will find a critical piece missing in their list-building strategy. What’s WIIFM?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are also VIP tickets available for Radical Impact that come with all session recordings and session notes, custom slides and speaker content, a bonus marketing strategy from Community Boost, additional CFRE credits, and (most importantly) a free t-shirt! Cost: General admission is free.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2009

Last Monday I attended my colleague, Susan Tenby's panel presentation, Building and Sustaining Vibrant Online Communities at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). Slides and resources from the panel can be found here. Speakers: Scott Moore, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

An open letter to companies planning online communities | Community Building – I love this "open letter" from Martin Reed at CommunitySpark – it touches on so many "cultural" and infrastructure needs that organizations should think about BEFORE creating an online community space.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours. So on the next slide, you can see we partner with more than 500 nonprofits annually worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Community Foundation of Monterey County. The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Radio Bilingue. Click to See Larger Image.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Tags: WEF social entrepreneurs Davos Schwab Foundation. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

You can use those figures to market and communicate with donors, foundations, other nonprofits and the rest of the community. Seeking suggestions from the community is a great way to find out what is and isn’t working for your organization. Communicate what you’re learning. Measuring impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. As a trainer and facilitator, the work I do with organizations and networks, often on behalf of a foundation for its grantees, is capacity building. Presentation slides.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup hosted the San Francisco Online Community Meetup which recently featured Marc A. " Marc is with the Connected Action Group , which uses social methodology to gain insights into patterns of communities. How is this helpful for community managers? Future Online Community Meetups (OCTribe). More Informa tion.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

corporate giving programs can include everything from matching gift and volunteer grant programs to community grants, annual giving, and more. Nonprofit grants can come from many different sources, including corporations, foundations, government agencies, or individuals. Double the Donation’s corporate giving guide. Grant funders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. It is highly trafficked and should be the foundation for your nonprofit’s video campaigns.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2011

Luckily, our members take the time to share their knowledge, experience, and resources with the nonprofit community. projects can be expensive, and not all foundations are excited to award grants for an IT overhaul. A recording of the presentation and the slides are available for free. Have more news to share? Check it out !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. You can find the slides and materials on my wiki here. I was lucky enough to have a colleague, Rebecca Krause Hardie in the room.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

I am firm believer that social media will be the foundation of the Mobile Web and the book was written to help prepare nonprofits for the coming shift from desktop and social to social and mobile. Get creative in integrating your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch into photos, slide shows, or even your YouTube Channel banner.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

But I was first alerted to her bravery by the posting she made (excerpted below) in an online community, where I saw her answering Jessica Curtiss' question about creating new donation forms. Jessica spends her energy working to eliminate the disease of substance addiction at the SAMA Foundation. idb=1775077442&df_id=1260&1260.donation=form1

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2009

I did a session on social media using the slide deck we created for our We Are Media trainings. " That's when it hit me: What we don't have in that deck yet is a patience pants slide. . He sets goals, then builds the community he needs to reach them. All was going well. They were with me. What did we do wrong?"

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2011

Using multiple platforms can deepen relationships with your community, according to Jeff Sterns. A few years ago, he was a blogging novice; now, he now uses Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, and Google alerts to strengthen his museum's community. Check out the slides and recording of his well-received presentation !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

They also created a website that serves up clips from the film, plus a wealth of supporting information backing up the provocative claims contained in the movie and myriad ways for citizens to get involved in their own communities.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Don’t repeat the 5K just because some people in your community love it. But for the foundation of your fundraising strategy, work with your strengths. It’s too easy for you to change course or let things slide if you don’t have a written plan, and that leads to lack of accountability. Can we tweak it and make it better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

It will take place Wednesday December 9 at 10:30 CST as part of Business Boomer's Live Webcast and broadcast a conference session with Andrew Wolk, CEO of Rootcause, Elizabeth Darling, CEO of One Star Foundation, and Stacey Caldwell, Executive Director of Dallas Social Venture Partners. Here's the description.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Here's peek into what we've been up to: TechSoup Global has two new posts on the Markets for Good blog, an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Liquidnet to improve the system for generating, sharing, and acting upon data and information in the social sector.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Leave it to Gavin Clabaugh , one of the original NTEN rockstars and Vice President of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation , to provide an equally entertaining and really helpful post about IT , tackling the long-time issue of leaving computers on over night. Tags: community buzz nten member. Finally, answers! And a green solution!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan. I go through my slides and think will this metaphor or idea translate to this cultural context. I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

Today, I have the honor of doing a session at The Allstate Foundation ‘s 60th Anniversary Executive Summit (hashtag #60summit ) where I’ll be talking about leading nonprofits with a network mindset. Once established, this became one of many platforms for them to engage their community and share control.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. They’re meeting a need in the community. Aaron: Sounds great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Organizers in local community own the agenda. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. Not that they thought they would fail, but just didn’t have foundation to scale. Local connections built through engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. Despite a DOS attack this week on SlideShare, a couple of nonprofit techies managed to upload slide shows. Check out Joe Solomon's slides about how to use social media to build relationships. A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

We ate BBQ by the pound , celebrated inspiring campaigns and community members , rode around on Segways , and did a lot of photoshopping. ChangeON Trendspotting: 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0 15NTC Community NTC press' Of course, we learned and shared a ton too.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

flickr: haglundc A community manager’s job is built on a foundation of distractions. Find the biggest slide. And did you see that ice cream vendor over there? Then you can start engaging them in those conversations. This is where the people are.

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