Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Fluency in social media skills. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

On January 30th, I’m speaking at the Social Media for Nonprofits in New York City. ” I have learned a lot of about the techniques of good curation just from observing her practice. Source: bethkanter.org via Beth on Pinterest On January 30th, I’m speaking at the Social Media for Nonprofits in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Whether you’re planning holiday events or social media campaigns, incorporating texts into your promotion strategy can have a big impact on your success. Beyond donors, you can also ask your volunteers, social media followers, and those who sign up for your email list. Keep an eye on your metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 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 my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)." This is the latest in the series.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? Using weekly social media posts focused on your mission’s impact. Don’t get lost in the looks of a campaign, focus on the conversion.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Recently, Robin highlighted an article by Jarche titled, “ Ask What Value You Can Add ” on Social Media Today. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Removing those obstacles will boost your conversion rates, which means you’ll attract more donors and raise more money. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. Secret sauce of social media success. View more presentations from kanter.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." To measure impact properly requires professional program design and data collection, using techniques such as randomized controlled trials. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Through our conversation, we also touched on the metrics for blogs. What I like best is that it takes the mystery out of social media metrics. He explains why experimentation is critical for success in using the web, particularly social media. So, been working on a methodology for social media experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Only measure impact, not process.

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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. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. It isn't black and white.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I’m very interested in the train the trainer concept, so for my own learning I have been taking many trainings to learn new instructional techniques – hopefully gaining some empathy for being a student in a train the trainer session. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. Why Movement Is the Killer App for Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

One thing that stood out in our conversations is that the civic tech field is ready for a deeper dive on outcomes. It’s important to engage your full team, especially tech development staff, early in evaluation planning to ensure that systems are in place to capture the data you’ll need to track progress and assess results.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Encourage fundraisers to send email and post to social media. Number of emails / social media posts per fundraiser, email / social media conversion rate. The data show that the number of emails sent and social media posts by a participant correlates positively to the number of donations they raise.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. Really cool conversations, lots of different topics, social justice, criminal justice, I think you talked about last week. . – [Steven] Yeah. – [Lindsay] Yup.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Leap of Reason offers toolkits for boards, nonprofits, and foundations on “do it yourself” outcomes based measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks? What to do when a network is in trouble? How do networks learn?

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

From there, you can start to understand where to begin conversations. Start planting the seed now for including someone in those conversations who can bring a strategic technology perspective, whether it's you or one of your colleagues. For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

The people who produce the programming or who have the relationships produce the messaging, so the conversations are authentic and personal. Program staff invent guerrilla marketing techniques, run the photobooths and program evaluations, and send out the follow-up emails.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

Join Jeff Regen of M+R Strategic Services, Adam Scruggs of the Human Rights Campaign and Justin Perkins of Care2, and hear them discuss how rapid, multichannel conversion strategies can turn your new online supporters into multichannel donors. See case studies and data on what’s working and what’s not.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

Attend this session and walk away with success stories and hands-on techniques that will change how you think about the creative process. Social Media. This session will reset your mindset and get you excited to experiment bravely on social media. Don’t Panic! ET on July 31.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. After all, the days of making your online marketing or social media presence secondary priorities are long gone. Social media profiles. Your social media pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. Identify Objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Blogs can be a great source of 360 evaluation. I'm going to call it AMORE. It's the network, stupid! What's Next?

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