Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. My colleague, Debra Askansae , who is a blogger and consultant with nonprofits recently wrote a great post about taking her medicine and this follow up post about content calendars. My answer: Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. Flickr Photo by Mburpee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The authors were kind enough to give me a copy to give away on this blog, so if you leave a comment you could be the lucky winner of a book! I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. More about the book here. 6. ShareThis!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The marketing director read the post and left a comment saying they were gong to investigate and thanking the blogger. Next, the marketing director facilitated a discussion with customer service reps about how to reduce on-hold wait time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex is a great example of a change blogger. Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. I guess I'm a change blogger too.

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JUNE 8, 2011

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. Also, the caliber of other workshop facilitators was definitely a plus!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

I'll be facilitating a Birds of a Feather session for Green, Social Change & NPO/NGO bloggers on Friday, July 18th from 10:30-11:45 AM. Let me know if you'll be there in the comments of this post, by email (britt AT brittbravo.com), or Twitter (@bbravo). They are selling out. If you've been waiting to sign up, don't delay.

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MAY 24, 2011

You can find websites with practical ways to facilitate community interactions, or ask colleagues at other nonprofit organizations for tips. Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 12:16 PM Labels: Asset Based Community Development , Chandler , community , Hannah Humphrey , nonprofits , Public Allies , social media 1 comments: George King said.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Respond to comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. When another blogger links to it on their blog. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

In fact, I discovered his post via Facebook where I left a comment on his note and followed the links to his blog post. David points over to colleague Michele Martin's post " How to Facilitate Conversation Between Comments on Our Blogs? How do you interact with other commenters when you comment on someone else's blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members. A coffee meet-up is perfect for this type of introduction.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2008

If you have a favorite blog (or podcast or vlog) that uses its platform to raise awareness, build community and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place, will you post the blogs/podcasts/vlogs' name and URL in the comments? Do you know of one? Would you like attend one? Lemme know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 and video blogging to Cambodians and a delivering a keynote! " Ah, I have no logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

After the second thread , Steve wrote an incredible post about blog community facilitation learning. I asked him some questions about connections between offline/online communities and how to encourage non-bloggers into a blogging community. His response: Steve answered my questions both in a comment and back over at his blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

A couple weeks ago I asked you and the Have Fun * Do Good Facebook group for suggestions for Changebloggers, people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. Should it be virtual, or in person?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Learn more about the comments. She could not attend the Cambodian Bloggers Summit because she is in the US on a fellowship studying for an advanced degree. Sopheap did an excellent facilitating the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Commenting on other blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

One of the most exciting things for me was to finally meet Tharum (a Cambodian blogger) and pictured above face-to-face. Also, the people in the room were coming from all corners of the world, many of them bloggers, and all passionate about their topics. Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . Are they tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. in honor of his late mother. But for many individuals seeking optimal health this isn't possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities. Steve posted a comment with some tips. I asked if there were a set of best practices or design principles in facilitating blog communities. Steve has shared his learnings on facilitating a blog community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

In the comments of Nancy's post, she has teased out a definition: Technology Steward The person or persons who take active leadership in the selection, configuration, support and maintenance of technologies to support the ongoing activities of their community along with developing and nurturing the practices for using those technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Some bloggers, like Skelliewag, highlighted the best of best of their blog posts , while CogDog blog took the opposite approach and look at the Top 0 list. How do we continue to connect and have a conversation facilitated by different social media tools? Thoughts, leave them in the comments. What do you think? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

The comments of Sonal Shah (I wasn’t there at SoCap, but Beth Kanter was ) resonate as well with our own work and approach to balancing the rigor of evaluation along with simultaneous commitment to continuous improvement. Guest blogger Gale Berkowitz directs evaluation at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I heard some genuine concerns from some Federal staff (eg Forest Service) about the risk of them being swamped by public input/comments online if they move to make rulemakings or decision-making proceedings more open for participation. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. Maxine Teller. These are ?software

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I got inspired by this post and left a quick comment, but then I reading comments by others and folks who wrote the answers on their blogs. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

From one of my favorite edtech blogger, Alan Levine (fellow lab lover) comes this Flickrtation - using flickr for a presentation. You are especially invited to speak up via comments, blog our photos, and add annotations via flickr notes. I met Nick via Nancy White's online facilitation workshop. Hat tip Nancy White.)

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! " Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

What's it like behind the firewall facilitating everyone in the organization to embrace social media? He is an active blogger, Twitterer and speaker at conferences and workshops related to the non profit tech environment. His answer, " There are many ways, but we do spend a great deal of time sending virtual birthday cards to folks."

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