ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Many nonprofits whose missions have a human welfare component are addressing issues that occur as a result of a lack of inclusion and respect for the rights of people who are not part of the dominant culture in America. It is essential to many organizational missions to have a staff that is reflective of the community being served.

Leadership 40

Leadership Phoenix Los Angeles Arizona 40

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app?

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

One of iconic icebreakers that Gunner has used is the “ Human SpectraGram ” that I first observed Gunner do at 2007 Penguin Day. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. Tips Training Design'

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Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Have them self-organize into small groups of three or four people and use sticky notes to come up with some statements. You can give people five minute, three minute, and one minute warning. Reflection and Takeaways.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Circuit Rider School June 11, 2007 Way back when (last month – I’ve been busy) Deborah Finn blogged about the "New England School for Circuit Riders."

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Open Source Conversation RSS Teach 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Spirituality and Technology January 19, 2007 A number of people have written me, and said that they appreciate that there is a blog with a spiritual take on technology. Spirituality is in creation.

Technology 100

Technology Open Source Massachusetts Issue 100

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

Model 53

Model Fund Social United States 53

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Reflecting on “Make It Your Own&# « A. The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. The assessment was conducted by Peter Levine, Peter Deitz and Cynthia Gibson.

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Web Bookmarking Evaluation Lesson 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Ironically, it was my post “ Reflection on Networked Professional Learning &# where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes. The &# Social Graph&# is your network or the people you are connected with on social networks. Neylon’s answer was one of the links in Brian Kelly’s article on Quora.

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Social Network Network Difference Social 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated.

Analysis 87

Analysis Twitter Giving Lesson 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. YES YES YES YES YES @davegray “People don’t learn from spreadsheets, predictions, and plans, they learn from making things” #NeXConf. He asked us to list them. Organization.

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Learning Work Knowledge Management Knowledge 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

Social Media 95

Social Media Training Train Media 95

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about. Originally, adding actions manually. was difficult.

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API Action Open Data 186

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” .” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing.

Social Network 96

Social Network Network Social Online 96

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace is not just a community of poor people! In fact, I think MySpace is probably the best online representative of our society in terms of race and class that exists on the Web today, but it is incorrect to assume that MySpace is only a community of poor people. MySpace is reflection of the society in which we live.

Myspace 190

Myspace Teen Facebook Social Network 190

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

Search 100

Search Web Open Source Audio 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. And it requires thinking above and beyond traditional organizational boundaries.

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

People who wouldn't dream of investing money without performing the necessary due diligence may blindly give money to organizations that use the majority of donations for executive salaries, fundraising and advertising. Some charitable organizations are performing self-evaluations and making the findings public.

Donation 87

Donation Tennessee Charity Evaluation 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Much of the my reflections and noodling on this idea has been around how existing nonprofits balance these two approaches. We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit. When people sense that you are working for a good cause without the goal of making a profit, they come forward and help.

Social Media 85

Social Media Ning Media Organization 85

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. But I know that even in times of chaos--especially in those times--it''s important to take time to reflect on what you are doing and making and learning. It is these other aspects--learning, reflection, community--that keep me going. To me, Museum 2.0

Museum 35

Museum Participatory Reflection Conference 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Round up of New Year's Reflections, Best Ofs, and Predictions for 2008. You can pick out the best content on your blog, other people's blogs, or ask your readers. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years.

Meme 50

Meme Lesson Social Media Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. All are captured here ).

Nashville 97

Nashville Twitter Blogger Contest 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. Visitors are people who visit your blog. Is there a conversation happening between people who comment? This metric gives you indication of the value of the content - that people were linking to it. You should be looking at monthly trends over time.

Metrics 81

Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding 3, Issue 1, to be published in June 2007, will focus on innovative practices and uses of ???technologies " technologies, these tools allow people to collaborate over time and distance in both new ways and in new networked forms. It is the people and practices using the tools that matter.

Knowledge 50

Knowledge Collaboration Share Develop 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. January 19, 2007 Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call.

Mashup 50

Mashup Nptech Tag Digg 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I've facilitated many versions of the social media strategy game that I first co-taught with David Wilcox in the UK in January, 2007 and decided to create a new version for this group to get specific feedback on how to align the social strategy thinking process with the communications thinking process. .

Social Media 97

Social Media Strategy Communication Remix 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. In the meantime, this post from Marc Sirkin sharing his YouTube Nonprofit Channel experience is worth reading as people contemplate a YouTube strategy. Not at all?

Summary 50

Summary Nptech YouTube Cancer 50

Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2016

Since 2007, the Peer-to-Peer Professionals Forum, formerly the Run-Walk-Ride Fundraising Council, has been the leading conference for the peer-to-peer fundraising industry. People matter. This year was the largest conference ever, and that fact alone speaks to the continued growth of the space. Brands matter. Leadership matters.

Leadership 20

Leadership Conference Cancer Results 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum.

Museum 52

Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 28, 2008

In a 2007 survey of over 5,000 Board Café readers, 52% said "most boards do a so-so job." A few tips that I particularly liked were: • Find 15 minutes on the agenda of each board meeting to either reflect upon a big picture trend or to learn about an issue that affects the work of the nonprofit. I guess I'm not the only one.

St. Louis 40

St. Louis Nonprofit Model Linkedin 40

See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It doesn’t allow people to take your organizational actions or sign-up for your newsletters the way Convio’s application does. So it might not be so easy to deliver specific messages to specific people within Facebook the way you might elsewhere. 19 Oct 2007 Michael Hoffman Allan, you are mostly wrong. Interactivity.

Convio 40

Convio Application Facebook Causes 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design.

Model 98

Model Activities Active Activism 98

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

It is a combination of creative, message, people and activism together. The behavior of people is hard to change and can take time – usually more time than you’d like. Feature real people. Your organization serves and supports the challenges real people face, so why wouldn’t your creative reflect those people?

Teen 20

Teen Social Empowerment Audience 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2005

But the word backchannel also refers to the chat in a conference where there are people in the room chatting as well as remote participation. " Raymond goes on to raise some really good reflective questions about backchannel: How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? Update: September, 2007.

Conference 50

Conference Technorati Vlog Screencast 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45