Jeremy Caplan is the Director of Education, Tow-Knight Center Entrepreneurial Journalism and an amazing teacher. I've never met him face-to-face, but I've learned some much from reading and using his curated instructional materials. He recently shared "Toolsets for Social Media," a brilliantly curated collection of tools. Before we dig into the content, let me point out why this so brilliant. A stellar example of content curation: Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
What I Learned In London at the Future of Social Conference
I am just back from spending a few days in London where I keynoted the "Future of Social" Conference hosted by Social Misfits Media with a talk about Gen Z or as they say in the UK, Gen Zed. I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). The first half of the conference featured talks from three platforms that discussed … [Read more...]
Future of Social: Gen Z
[slideshare id=49590448&doc=london-future-of-social-keynote-final-150619082337-lva1-app6892] I’m thrilled to be spending a few days in London where I am keynoting The Future of Social conference hosted by Social Misfits Media. I’ll be talking about Gen Z donors and why nonprofits need to engage them in their fundraising and programs. If you want to learn more about what I'll be talking about, read this interview in the Guardian. This post includes my slides and summary of the main points … [Read more...]
Training Board Members As Social Media Ambassadors
Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on "Leading on Social Media." It was an interactive workshop and the content was on how to leverage senior leaders, board, and staff as champions on social channels. Rachel Calderon, Marketing and Communications Manager, Central Florida Foundation was a workshop participant and after the workshop we brainstormed a design for training her board members to be champions. She agreed … [Read more...]
How Gen Z Donors Harness the Power of Online Giving
Note from Beth: Next week, I'll be keynoting the "Future of Social Media Conference" in London hosted by Social Misfits in partnership with Facebook, JustGiving, the Hospital Club Foundation, and the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. I'll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. How Gen Z Donors … [Read more...]