Summary: Beth’s Blog
How Networked Nonprofits Are Using Social Media to Power Change
Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration
into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve
their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media.
As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I
designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and
exchanges. It was [...]
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 11:15 am
Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest This post
covers some simple techniques to give your fans the content they
want most and inspire more engagement. Many
times we’re on the hunt for the tips of what to do and when we find
them, we just implement them. But how do you [...]
Date Published: Feb 16, 2012 - 11:18 am
This week my brand page on Facebook, Beth’s Blog Facebook Page,
reached 10,000 fans when Kim Murray clicked the “like” button.
Inspired by the Humane Society celebration of
reaching one million fans, I couldn’t let benchmark go by
without some commentary. While numbers of fans isn’t
the most important metric, it is [...]
Date Published: Feb 15, 2012 - 8:17 am
I Love Social Media Measurement View more presentations from Beth
Kanter Yesterday, I had the honor of kicking off Compasspoint’s
Webinar Week, with a webinar on social media measurement 101 as
part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard
Foundation. To mark Valentine’s Day, I took some
inspiration [...]
Date Published: Feb 14, 2012 - 10:03 am
Source: nwlink.com via Beth on Pinterest The After
Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for
anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots
and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is
a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project,
with the intent of [...]
Date Published: Feb 13, 2012 - 9:28 am
Last month, I had the pleasure of doing a session on Content
Curation called “What Can Nonprofits Learn from the Best Content
Curator on the Planet: Robin Good?” Robin joined me on Skype
all the way from Rome. One of the points he made
during our planning call is that in order to [...]
Date Published: Feb 10, 2012 - 10:17 am
Generosity Day is an effort to rebrand Valentine’s Day – and make
it about love, connection, and well generosity. We’re rebooting
Valentine’s Day as Generosity Day: one day of sharing love with
everyone, of being generous to everyone, to see how it feels and to
practice saying “Yes.” Let’s make the day about love, action [...]
Date Published: Feb 09, 2012 - 8:33 am
Source: journalism.org via Lucy on Pinterest “Listening” or
tracking what people are saying about your brand or issue has
always been hailed at the first most important step in building
your social media or network strategy. Listening is the
process tracking brand mentions or related key words
and transforming a “river of noise” into [...]
Date Published: Feb 08, 2012 - 9:49 am
Source: tomfishburne.com via Beth on Pinterest Update: Just as I
hit the publish button on this post, I got news that Komen’s
Karen Handel resigned. Perhaps the sixth stage is fire the
staff person who was primarily responsible for the mess. Now that
we’ve had a few days to let the dust settle from [...]
Date Published: Feb 07, 2012 - 8:43 am
Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall Note from Beth: This past year has been
a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and
reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and
social media. As part of my work at the Packard
Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning
groups and exchanges. [...]
Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 10:42 am
Heroes with A Heart Grant Recognizes Unsung Nonprofit Heros – Guest
Post by John Haydon If you’re like most people, you get most of
your inspiration from people who are quietly changing the world
each and every day. They’re not on the front page of the newspaper,
and they’re not mingling with the Gates and [...]
Date Published: Feb 03, 2012 - 9:56 am
Source: thefastertimes.com via Noland on Pinterest On
Tuesday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, a leading breast cancer
charity, pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in
breast cancer screening funds from Planned Parenthood.
Each year millions of women are screened for breast cancer at
Planned Parenthood, and Susan G. Komen’s funding pays for about
170,000 of those [...]
Date Published: Feb 01, 2012 - 11:54 pm
Alex Abelin: Google + for Nonprofits View more presentations from
Social Media for Nonprofits Does Google + have the potential
to be a valuable platform for nonprofits or is it just another
shiny object to distract nonprofits? Should your nonprofit do
more than simply set up a presence on Google + and not invest any
more [...]
Date Published: Feb 01, 2012 - 12:39 pm
Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post
by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss
Foundation Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its
2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s
social and political events. As courageous citizens connected with
each other to express dissent and organize [...]
Date Published: Jan 31, 2012 - 6:31 am
Content Curation for Nonprofits View more presentations from Beth
Kanter Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a
talk called “What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the
Best Content Curator on the Planet?” that I will be
presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits.
This area, content curation, is a social media competency that
[...]
Date Published: Jan 30, 2012 - 6:09 am