Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Flickr Photo by Kris Krug. Even better is to have self-care so finely embedded in the nonprofit’s culture that there is not a need for a separate program, it is simply part of the way the organization works. The bottom line is that you want to scale happy, healthy, pay attention organizational culture.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Over the years, February 14th has become a cultural and commercial celebration of romance and love throughout the world. Click Here to Download this Valentine Heifer International This global nonprofit works to eradicate poverty and hunger. Valentine’s Day is also the ideal day to celebrate your donors. be my valentine?”

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

Activities they considered “service” included “working with others to make the community or campus a better place” (81%), “acting to benefit the common good” (80%), “everyday acts of kindness” (76%), “acting to raise awareness about a campus, community, or global problem” (72%), and “working with others to address social inequality” (68%).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

In her book, Fisher outlines how collectively we can permanently build a more inclusive way of working into corporate culture to launch more women to the highest echelons of business. Consider using blind resumes (which include no name, photos, or details about gender or race). Recognize unconscious biases and how they hold you back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2019

Photo by Norbert Reimer. Here’s what to watch in 2019: Building a culture of wellbeing in the nonprofit workplace is more popular than ever: Organizational culture has become your nonprofit’s brand and it really matters more than ever when it comes to sustaining high performance. Simplify Complex Work Environments.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If staff interact more with AI tools than with one another to complete tasks, it reduces the well-documented benefits of informal conversations of building an effective workplace culture, onboarding new staff, and improving staff retention. More importantly, increasing human-to-human engagement must be a part of any AI adoption strategy.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Their development was shepherded by one of the largest, most global organizations out there. Their efforts galvanized engagement from hundreds of other companies, nonprofits, and people from all walks of life, permeating popular culture and fundamentally changing the landscape around breast cancer in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Now more than ever we must create a robust workplace culture and stronger relationships to retain our humanness. My absolute favorite, which comes from Katy Grennier, DSIL Global , is the dance off that can be done on a video conference platform. see the photo at the top). Why Remote Work Is Exhausting. That is the dance floor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I’ve been fortunate enough to be hired to provide three social media trainings to their nonprofit partners in Malaysia (photo above), Singapore, and the Philippines. One of the biggest take-aways from this trip for me personally is the reminder that we live in very diverse world with multiple political, cultural and religious beliefs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

Visual marketing is becoming an important part of the online marketer’s tool box – especially because images are global, easy to digest, and distributable. Simply Measured offers a free report that lets see which of your photos/stories was most engaging.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

Trend 1: Authenticity is King One of the biggest online cultural shifts we’ve seen in recent years is a huge emphasis on authenticity. Everyone started posting “photo dumps,” something I credit YouTuber and Relatable Girly Emma Chamberlain as popularizing. These monthly trends are written by Alex Piscatelli , Social Media Strategist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. Keep them coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. The World Health Organization identifies workplace stress as the “ global health epidemic of the 21st century.” These factors include: Culture of learning. Others do not.”. Building Your Resilience Skills To Manage Workplace Stress. Talent development. Outside In Thinking. Planning and Execution.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

Japanese culture, following Buddhist tradition, often marks the 49 days after a death as a formal period of mourning. The TechSoup Global Network believes a strong civil society is always important. A joint press release in English is posted in the TechSoup Global press room. Photo by Jon Downs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by kayaker1204. One of those companies is HP, who was represented in the panel discussion by Caroline Barlerin, their Director of Global Community Involvement. Cindy Hallberlin is the President & CEO of Good360 , a recovering trial attorney, mother of four, and devout culture vulture. And she should know.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Held annually at Carnegie Hall, this event not only invites attendees to revel in captivating musical performances but also serves as a vital platform for celebrating and safeguarding Tibetan culture. Offer a livestream option for those who’d prefer to watch from the comfort of their homes, opening the doors to a potential global audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm just back from the Global s Summit in London. This was Tharum's first trip to the West and it was interesting to observe his initial culture shock. I think it was more intense than a Westerner's culture shock visiting Cambodia for the first time. I vlogged it here: Download cultureshock.wmv. tag: [link]. Flickr tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Rebecca Masisak from TechSoup Global shared a presentation about how their organization has integrated lean start up principles, sharing their “ Canvas ” which is a thinking tool to help you lay out your hypotheses in different business areas and then test them. It offers specific examples of what to test and mini-case studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“Yet while measurement is critical to making progress in global health, it’s very hard to do well. The blog goes on to make a proposal to Gates about how to change the culture: Please round up a bunch of venture capitalists. ” 2. Use Measurement To Improve Results. 3. It’s About Sense-Making, Not Tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. We connect the local with global resources.” Dara Westling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? Do numbers only matter? There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. You want to be weary of hero worship in a movement, but that’s addressed by constantly changing out the spotlight – shining a light on people, partners, organizations and policy makers, actions local and global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. While technical topics such data and measurement processes emerged, so did a lot culture change issues. In particular, they were interested in looking at transformational metrics such as donor engagement, building nonprofit capacity, and global reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. At The Global Fund for Children , we’ve worked hard to establish a culture of measurement, monitoring and learning about our role as a grantmaker, about the tangible and intangible benefits of our grant investment model, and about understanding of the wicked social problems we are trying to mitigate.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Culture Change: How DC's Office of the Chief Technology Officer is Driving Internal Change December 16, 2010 Speaker: Bryan Sivak , Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the District of Columbia. Photo: Allison Fine at The Networked Nonprofit book launch at TechSoup Global; Matt Sharp ; CC license. Learn more and register here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2011

Translating software to help indigenous peoples connect with others while preserving their language and culture. On the blog you can find coverage of their work with global partners on projects that range from using to technology to prepare students for academic and future professional success to helping communities cope with disasters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2012

where I took these photos. Tide Pool Sea urchin Bean Hollow State Beach Now that I'm back in the city after two days in the outdoors, I've been think a lot about nature deficit disorder , and how detrimental it to us personally, as a culture (at least, in the US), that we're spending less time outside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. It’s a reflection of culture and online practice and by understanding the audience you will understand better how they talk to each other. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I've also listed all of the interviewees with photos and links below. After you click the triangle to start listening, click on the blue box in the bottom left hand corner of the player that says, Menu. Then, click on Episodes. You'll be able to scroll through, and play the shows that peak your interest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 27, 2010

The Global Fund for Women's online store features companies who donate a portion of their sales to the Global Fund for Women like Alima Pure Mineral Makeup and Putumayo's Women of the World: Acoustic CD. Image credit: Photo by me of two Palomas Aprons , a project of Border Partners.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

One of the features is a new lens blur mode, which lets you play with the depth of field in your photos (you can find a similar feature on Instagram). The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization just published a report called Reading in the Mobile Era. Anti-Phone-Theft Pledge. Reading Research.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

As our community discusses the topic of building a culture of accessibility, an important distinction arises. Peter Cheer shares the upcoming 2011 da Vinci Awards celebrating global excellence in assistive technology, slated for September 22 in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo: ingoism. online community channels. and Ottowa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Photo by Mythicaldude. He writes about Cambodian culture, arts, comics, and many other topics. He had some great insights about the cultural differences. Also at the conference was Geoffrey Cain from Global Voices who recently left to go back to the states, but is still blogging about Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The photo is of the Pacific Ocean at Monterey taken by a Flickr user, Amayu. (No, it wasn't a presentation about Google Wave!). amanda Potential to connect globally, share and collaborate with others working towards the same goal, let donors 'in' and help. More about that later. They asked two questions about the experiment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day Art in Action: Youth Leadership Training Program Mission: "Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education." Flickr photo credit: Luck of Summer Rain uploaded by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2020

While May 5 is less than a month away, there is enough time for you to participate in this global day of giving. Utilize photos that invoke feelings of empathy and joy, increasing your donors drive of support. This global day of giving will unite the world and prove that there is strength in numbers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

For inspiration, check out Good Mail Day's Flickr photo stream of people's creative correspondence creations. I've made her Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups three times in the past couple weeks (photo left), and each time they've been freakalicious. One of my favorite cookbooks at the moment is The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone.

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