Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Midland Gives, a member of the peer learning group, had a Plan B. What Happened on Give Local America Day?

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JUNE 9, 2011

LinkedIn's Groups have done a nice job in this regard. Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses. Make sure that your software's private messages facilitate a private response within the community itself. daily or weekly).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It’s timely because integrating environmental factors into decision-making is likely to become a key issue in 2009 for businesses and governments. Clean Tech Group, and many more. The “ Green Enterprise Unconference ” we’re hosting on December 3rd is looking extremely timely and interesting. CarbonFlow. Random House, GreenIT.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

to developing recommendations collaboratively. EPA has also apparently trained 60 people to be trainers in online collaboration. A critical mass + diverse group of persons participate. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I love the application wall because it is is like an electronic group birthday card. Collaboration with the Organization's Cause would be a good thing I'd like to see how Causes might facilitate more collaboration with the organization's Cause administrator to leverage some of the other new fundraising features on the Causes application.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. This year, we took a different approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

We believe that, like the soup kitchen, our overall impact could be strengthened through a better understanding of who we serve individually and collectively, and what that may imply about how we can better collaborate to meet the needs of those we serve. Of course, collaboration is tough work. Did we succeed?

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

To help further advance the social sector, we also offer an immersive experience called the Collaborative , which is our annual nonprofit conference designed exclusively to help nonprofit organizations gain insights, strategies, and inspiration to elevate their impact. Register Now for the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. Joe explains some of the planned intentional dialogue events: First, for the opening night dinner, we hired a local dance company that is putting together pieces about visiting museums, punctuated by an actor/dancer asking provocative questions to the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. ” Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. We'll soon be unveiling a full set of tools to let you manage your local event and build a strong local climate group in the lead-up to 24 October."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NOS session is a chance for anyone interested in open data and APIs to connect and collaborate. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Thursday, April 8, 2010.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. We have a talented group of entrepreneurs that we work with all the way from Numi Organic Tea to Blue Bottle Coffee, to Premier Organics, and many others in different sectors. They want to do good. It's a big challenge.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page. After giving Jumo some basic details and your interests the site lets you start picking projects that you are interested in.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. There is a whole group, a support group for us. I fell in love with it all the way back in 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. We believe NLEs will be the next evolution in eLearning: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

N2Y4’s Mobile Innovation Challenge calls for your world-changing ideas of how mobile applications can help citizens, groups and others create a better world for everybody. Two representatives from each of the 15 Featured Projects will be invited to present their ideas in person at N2Y4, May 26-27, 2009 and compete for cash prizes.

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