Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Why Staying Social and Going Mobile Can Make All the Difference Social media and mobile platforms play a critical role in successful peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns. This underscores the importance of having an engaging social media presence and easy-to-use mobile interfaces for fundraising initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”. When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”.

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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

MAY 15, 2020

Breakout rooms are a feature in Zoom that allows you to put people in smaller rooms for more intimate conversations. We’ve modeled them as part of the session and it allowed us to brainstorm in smaller teams on how to be more engaging in our meetings from now on. Interactive Meeting Techniques. Use Zoom breakout rooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For instance, NeonMoves, a mobile application, is designed to help fundraisers spend less time trying to figure out whom to contact and more time in conversation with donors. AI can increase online donor conversion and retention rates. Software vendors in this category include Blackbaud , boodle.AI , Gravyty , and Neon One.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

How can create a back channel or other social media tools that can engage people in the room, but also around the world with an interest in the topic? A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. I suspect I’m not alone.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When laying out your goal, consider following the SMART model for goal setting. Here’s how you might apply the SMART model to this objective: Specific: Lay out a specific goal you want to accomplish, like attracting a certain number of donors. Engagement with content. Engagement level. Monitor data and adjust your approach.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. What is ChatGPT?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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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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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One of the most significant issues facing any event, but particularly those in a hybrid model, is that of attendance. . Fortunately, there are a handful of techniques you can use for boosting attendance for both the virtual and physical audience segments. . How do you get people to turn up in person and online? .

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At it’s core, OPM brings together digital strategy, SEO techniques and social media marketing to provide an overarching approach to online presence. In today’s ever-evolving digital world, what customers say about your brand is amplified by countless social media platforms. Search Engine Optimisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. Being heard, counting, being recognized. I got curious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. ” 3.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

With fundraising and technology at the forefront of the conversation, we’ll explore best practices and learn how to leverage the latest technology to raise more. This is a great conference to learn from experts about smart earned-revenue models, and about how the CSR world at for-profit companies operates. . Create Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. To identify ways to integrate “translated” Networked Nonprofit principles into social media training/coaching, as appropriate. Why do we need it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

This is especially important if you want to be effective using social media for your organization, but it is bigger than that. Social media tools can help you easily connect with people who have the knowledge, resources, and ideas to share. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At it’s core, OPM brings together digital strategy, SEO techniques and social media marketing to provide an overarching approach to online presence. In today’s ever-evolving digital world, what customers say about your brand is amplified by countless social media platforms. Search Engine Optimisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. The other reason is that I'm prepping for a couple of conference sessions on Social Media Metrics and one of the areas to consider is "conversation index" - more on that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I was lucky enough to have a number of exchanges with them about self-directed and peer learning models in the nonprofit sector as part of their research process and are referenced in the report. That thinking of e-learning only through the lens of education misses the point. But it isn’t the technology that matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters.

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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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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One of the most significant issues facing any event, but particularly those in a hybrid model, is that of attendance. . Fortunately, there are a handful of techniques you can use for boosting attendance for both the virtual and physical audience segments. . How do you get people to turn up in person and online? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

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. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. There are people who just want an expert on the stage to share their wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. These sessions were focused on sharing best practices and tips for using social media effectively.

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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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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. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Erika Croxton, the grist.org staffer who oversees social media strategy, says. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” ” The point was that nonprofits can expect to have competition from these different entities for dollars But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector.

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