Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media. At Common Sense, we believe these skills are as essential to thriving in the 21st century as reading and writing. Who knows what’s coming at us?

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The Next Web

JUNE 17, 2014

So, what do they teach you in Event Marketing 101? It takes the organizational skills of a school teacher and a masters degree in. Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' A startup party is a great way to get your brand name out there, meet new customers, and celebrate your survival in the fast lane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly. In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Mancini: For those who aren’t familiar, Black Girls Code is an organization that works to inspire, educate, and launch the next generation of technologists by equipping them with the skills and confidence to lead in a field where they’ve historically been underrepresented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. I worked with 39 young women between the ages of 18-30. All in all, I had a lovely day at the Akilah Institute.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Cooking classes have a broad appeal because they attract not just gourmet food, but also individuals who want to learn new skills. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. Then, either choose the winners yourself or ask people to vote over social media. 5) Online classes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Classy, we put our own fundraising skills to this test with our annual #ClassyGives initiative, where our staff collectively fundraises for a nonprofit organization. This can go hand in hand with a countdown on social media, both in the newsfeed as well as utilizing the story features on Facebook and Instagram. Get social!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. When you step in the door, you come prepackaged with skills you can share. Technological expertise and an understanding with social media others don’t know. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential.

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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. Moreover, adding context is another curation skill. The best way to learn these skills is study how the experts work. They should know the topic area, but also understand practice of curation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. There are also special sections of your profile where you can list certifications, languages, patents, skills, and publications. Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Teach Some Curiosity. In other words, teaching business/marketing to web engineers is vital. This opened my world to social media and its impact on business. If someone tells you (teaching) the solution, then all you are required to do is regurgitate that solution (college). Logan Lenz , Endagon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The two discussion questions were: What are your expectations for the project as a social media trainer? Fluency in social media skills. Integrating the training and social media. NGOs master the skills and put them into practice. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Steph Korey, the co-CEO of luggage company Away, will be stepping down from her role within the year, co-founder Jen Rubio and co-CEO Stuart Haselden told staff today, after employees voiced concern over Korey’s recent social media behavior. Earlier this week, Korey posted a series of Instagram stories about the media. they asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working? Essentially, design thinking process teaches how to be iterative. Next, we looked for patterns and grouped together the sticky notes into clusters. The following emerged for our group: How do we support individual leaders in risk taking that leads to emergence?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the themes that came up is the gap in skills of citizens and nonprofits and the use of data. It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING FOR NONPROFITS. 5 Nonprofits Winning At Social Media. Case studies of nonprofits winning at social media is an opportunity to see the strategies in action. Social Media Marketing Statistics. Social Media Marketing Strategies. Social Media Marketing Templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love. It is always important to look at the challenges of adoption of improving organizational processes or individual skills, especially if they are new. It should always accompany the tips and how tos. Denial: You can’t measure social media!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. 8-10pm: Entertainment time – television, social media.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 30, 2024

So consider individual Board member’s level of engagement, skill, and willingness. What skills do they have to work with? What skills do they have to work with? Do they have great people skills? Later, you can plug them into roles where these skills can shine! Are they comfortable talking to others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Cultural barriers at the host organization and that my expertise and skills will be under utilized. Students Discussing Their Assessments of Host Organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. High level of attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to balance/manage multiple simultaneous tasks on your own. Process, clean, and transform data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For those of us who work on social media and networks, “content fried” is an occupational hazard. I can’t possibly read everything, but I am using content curation skills to pick out the best stuff to give more attention to. Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills. Facilitated Listening Skills.

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Tableau

MARCH 19, 2024

Most students are relatively new to using Tableau, and this challenge allows them to flex their data skills, learn new tricks, and network with the Tableau Community, all while competing for a spot in the top three. A professor teaching data visualization was looking for a teaching assistant to help students with Tableau,” she remembers. “I

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago, MasterClass, a platform that sells celebrity-taught classes, invited chess legend Garry Kasparov to teach a class. Financed by private investors, and media conglomerate Vivendi, the company declined to disclose its total capital raised to date. The product will be available to the public by the end of month.

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Media Cause

APRIL 29, 2021

The MC team has put together some of the books, websites, training programs, podcasts, and organizations we turn to in our daily lives, whether we’re working on building emotional skills like resilience and compassion, or struggling to navigate the challenges of stress, anxiety, and depression.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I have continued my work as senior advisor to Lightful , a social media management tool for charities based in London. I have been delivering virtual master classes and helping to develop their capacity building programs in digital skills. Skills in this area I want to deepen are reflection and creativity.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 12, 2013

They make it easy for everyone to teach what they are good at and also learn something new. Clarity.fm’s design and user experience is seamless, and truly does help to connect people to the expertise or skills that they need for a fee. Front Street Media. . – Sunil Rajaraman , Scripted.com. Codename One. Clarity.fm

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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 also points to James Mangan who identified several skills for acquiring knowledge in 1936 (via Maria Popova ). Content curation is not about sharing links as you find them.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Doyobi , a Singapore-based professional development platform, wants to give educators new, more engaging ways of teaching STEM subjects. Curiosity, imagination and empathy are just as important as literacy and numeracy skills,” he said. The edtech boom has focused primarily on students, but teachers are learners, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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