Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

This week the beginner track got underway where 20 arts organizations will design and implement action learning experiments in Facebook , Listening , or Twitter to improve their social media practice. It doesn’t have to be a static content either, it can change according to your organization’s activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Facebook groups mostly function asynchronously, but a synchronous activity now and again can really rally the troops. Facebook groups mostly function asynchronously, but a synchronous activity now and again can really rally the troops. Timing is key. Group chat. Events need not be restricted to members of the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

” If it’s just for the sake of compliance, a make-work activity for funders and grantees both, what’s the point? All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki. No question about it, it also adds complexity and cost – in dollars and time. It was striking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. What can we effectively with limited time? I presented a framework to think about this.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

From time to time, we work with consultants or outside vendors. . We need to be able to see how our projects are progressing over time. Here's what I want: Uncluttered interface - folks have to spend less time managing projects than doing them. The Dashboard view is all about the "latest activity."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

There is also the use of social media tools (and online collaboration tools) to support inward facing work, including online groups, communities of practice, and internal coordination or learning activities of organizations working as pure networks. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. Technology for Communities project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

wondering if i might poke my nose into this knowledge building experiment. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. He brings the lens of experience of a community building process for a new media curriculum. How are you contributing to people???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

If not, you can follow the conversation in real time on Twitter with the hashtag #crowdx. (We’ll For the most part, I agree with the way the crowds voted – but, given that people were able to submit and vote at the same time, it means some groups only submitted on the very last day, not leaving much time for votes.

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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. I used this metaphor to talk about the importance of having both the strategic view of social media as well as the hands-on experience of the tactical and tools.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

From time to time, we work with consultants or outside vendors. . We need to be able to see how our projects are progressing over time. Here's what I want: Uncluttered interface - folks have to spend less time managing projects than doing them. The Dashboard view is all about the "latest activity."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. What can we effectively with limited time? I presented a framework to think about this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. JD Lasica , and Laura Novig.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

after John Smith pinged me and Nancy about an experiment with this tool. Does collaboration on the mindmapping tool work best in real time or asynchronous - or does it not matter? I'm wondering whether it would get messy if you used it to take notes during a meeting in real-time with too many people editing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

The more we can siphon off the non-time sensitive stuff into channels that are more suited to them, the more we???ll Activity - share/correspond/updates. s log on their experience, thoughts, feedback, etc??? Speaking of other tools, Stewart Mader, of Wiki Patterns, is running a series, " 21 Days of Wiki Adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As an early adopter, I remember switching, despite how strange it felt. Yet, at the time, people were questioning “How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus?&#. The downside to virtual presenting is that you don’t get to see your friends face-to-face !

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

My colleague Colleen and I spent weeks working closely with the three convening organizations, helping them identify key ways to share their messages and summit activities in a virtual space. The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Thier ideas, unique points of view, and diverse talents provide us with critical information and expertise, and greatly enhance our program activities. But just like that beach clean up event, microvolunteering, for the host organization, takes a lot of time — not virtual time. And then actually marketing those tasks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Ivan Boothe pointed me over to a blog post by Lina with an intriguing tweet " Transmedia activism with a co-creation network." Transmedia immerses an audience in a story’s universe through a number of dispersed entry points, providing a comprehensive and coordinated experience of a complex story. very insightful.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Primarily, it's about creating a fundamentally engaging experience for the website visitor that brings them closer to your organization. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. The site presents, one reason at a time, why one should give to the Red Cross. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Ivan is one of a small number of nonprofit early adopters in social media and social networks - he has a couple of years of experience under his belt - so his wisdom is priceless. But over a long period of time social networking is actually critical in building an effective, educated political constituency." Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. What can we effectively with limited time? I presented a framework to think about this.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

Part of keeping the timeline realistic is to build in buffer zones to the agenda so that you have give and take you can use without actually running into other time slots on the agenda. Then, we asked that the groups pitch to the same two people for ultimate funding (&# winning&# ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Jacob Harold discussed how social media can be of value to a program officer because it is an easy way to stay informed about grantees activities with anecdotal information. This refers to grants for projects that were ahead of their time or more experimental. He also added that it is important to have structured information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. The American Red Cross can’t be everywhere at the same time. Sponsored by Dell, the Center uses customized software produced by Radian 6 to monitor and analyze social media in real-time. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

For the WeAreMedia Module 4: Spreading Awareness and Buzz With Social Media , the community has built an awesome resource - lots of tips, resources, and ideas from people's experience. I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. What were the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. The notion of a community is really tricky because every web page is a latent community, waiting to be activated.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality." Doing Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

We made people go up and down the stairs three times before settling in after lunch. On Day 3, we covered the best practices of using listening, Twitter, and Facebook, with ample time to practice. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. In fact, they could follow his curation and pick items from that, thus saving time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

good or #bad to give a quick sense of your overall experience. #EP+your   Individual voters will use their cell phones to report on their individual experiences ??? Is failure to bring ID to the polls thwarting first-time voters in Indianapolis? #reg for registration troubles; ex., ???#reg reg I wasn???t t on the rolls???

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2009

Even if you feel like you need more experience, more skills, more time, more money, more confidence, more whatever before you can pursue your dream, take a step, even if it is a small one, towards your dreams. Make time for the three R's: rest, reflection and recreation. Not breaking big dreams down into small actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint. t tell you how many times I???ve "We've been experimenting with using various feeds on our local CVS site to make it more dynamic. ll blog it.

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