Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. Writing a book required a much deeper level of focus and paying attention. This is similar to the pomodoro technique. This book is a gem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Moving around woke everyone up and we were ready to pay attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case. Absolutely brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Flickr Photo by Kris Krug. Let’s say that after implementing your own self-care plan, you discover that you have more energy and are more productive work. You are walking more, eating healthy foods, getting more sleep, taking breaks, and have fully internalized the self-care techniques we cover in the first part of the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. So, I thought this matrix was highly useful to help sort out when to pay attention to feedback based on who the people who are offering it. And, in this day of social networks — feedback can come from a variety of sources and unsolicited.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And how do you identify relevant takeaways and techniques for you and your organization? If you're just starting out, paying close attention to the aforementioned tools on the rise section is key to informing the direction of your visual strategy. Where do you start? Well, speaking of Idealware, it’s a big help here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

Flickr Photo by udithawix. These skills are: self-management and attention training. These skills are: self-management and attention training. ” I don’t bother with time management techniques because in a networked world, they don’t work – that is industrial age thinking. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. techniques -- blog, viral video, etc. s attention on the web and do what we can to participate.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? I''ve never heard people say they don''t care about visitors, but I''ve seen it in how they pay attention to visitors'' needs and contributions. Where do you see the biggest resistance to incorporating participatory techniques?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Trying to create a culture that encourages commenter to commenter interactions through your own responses in the comments section--maybe by drawing the attention of one commenter to the thoughts of another. Flickr Photo by Lynnetter. Michele's commenters: 6. Lisa Juniker ) The Intensity of Sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Microblogging Reports Worth Your Attention. How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. You're Never Too Old To Change the World. Giving Good Poke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. So, I read it with this question in mind: What techniques can be applied or adapted to Second Life facilitation or virtual world interface facilitation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. marketers use them to get attention. Some tools and techniques follow below. In the session that David Wilcox and I did in the UK on Social Media , we included some on the Web2.0 One of the key points is listening. tools successfully. Ego searches.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? I've never heard people say they don't care about visitors, but I've seen it in how they pay attention to visitors' needs and contributions. Where do you see the biggest resistance to incorporating participatory techniques?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. Angelo grabbed flickr photos that were uploaded in real-time to add to the blog. Flickr tag: [link]. tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Flickr photo by Beth. As someone with limited time and attention, I don't want to think about how much money to donate. Tools and techniques may get worn from overuse, but new stories can always be told.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. " What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. I'm only discoveriing about Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. It also ties right into the lecture/presentation and class exercise of learning the technique of learning loops or real time tracking and reflection.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Know when to respond and when not -- pay attention to people's tone and influence. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

Sarah Pullman writes about how flickr is taking over the world. Her positive proof is an announcement every night at the main stage of the Vancouver Folk Festival that the Festival has a flickr group , followed by a decent attempt to explain what that means to 10,000 gathered. for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. We should pay attention to the social media standardized metrics discussion and translate it into useful ways to apply it to nonprofits and grassroots media - but not get bogged down in geeky measurement. Engagement= Interaction + Attention. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Girlup uses its social media channels to engage its audience about policy initiatives to support girls around the globe. ( Flickr ; Blog; Facebook ; Twitter ; Youtube and others). In addition to surveying people directly and asking them to rank priorities, one can also pay attention to what people say about what’s on their minds right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

But, cartoons can be terrific infographics or used as technique for sense-making. Cartoons are good communication tool. That can save you a lot of wasted effort, and you’ll avoid wasting your audience’s time and attention. And tying for first, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t draw.

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