Feed: Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media - AggScore: 59.0

Reporting Social To Stakeholders

---

  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 [...]

How To Use Facebook Metrics To Give Your Audience the Content They Want Most

---

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 [...]

How Do You Celebrate Reaching 10,000 Fans on Facebook?

---

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 [...]

Social Media Measurement and Learning Analytics: How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

---

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 [...]

How After Action Reviews Can Improve Your Social Media Strategy

---

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 [...]

What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?

---

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 [...]

How Generosity Day Is Building A Movement

---

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 [...]

What does monitoring your brand on social media channels really mean?

---

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 [...]

The Five Stages of A Social Media PR Disaster

---

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 [...]

Taking Baby Steps to Social Media Maturity with Your Peers

---

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. [...]

Heroes with A Heart Grant Recognizes Unsung Nonprofit Heroes

---

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 [...]

Komen Kan Kiss My Mammagram, PinActivism, and Newsjacking for a Cause

---

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 [...]

Google + for Nonprofits: Invest Time or Not? Nonprofit Starter Steps

---

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 [...]

Guest Post: Infusing “Social” into Social Justice Organizations

---

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 [...]

What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet?

---

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 [...]