Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Digital Warriorship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages. From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. Meedan is working with a tool that was intended to annotate tweets called Curated.by – an elegant workaround.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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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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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. 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. Steve posted a comment with some tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Note from Beth: Last May, USA for UNHCR launched The Blue Key campaign as a way for U.S. Click Image to see larger version.

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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. Don't be afraid of white space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo helps connects people with issues and organizations on the first rung of the ladder of engagement, but the challenge will be how to cultivate relationships to bring people up that ladder to higher levels of engagement and involvement – from following and connecting to making donations to making change offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I tried to apply all that I learned about facilitating online conversations, connecting, and networking to blogging. A totally manual blog!

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. Virtual front porch: providing people ways to find and engage online with other people in their town/neighborhood, and then to take it offline to actually have meetings. Active agency staff + sufficient resources are committed to the process. The recommendations receive ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

So, the flow or sequence would go something like this: * Read poems by poet (offline in books) * Talk about the poems with peers facilitated by instructor (face-to-face). " What if you linked your tag words to something? Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There are offline ways to do it. 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. Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. What is the first step?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. t have a habit of reading on the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Everyone else must work harder to spark a true grassroots movement (online or offline) and realize the results that the technology world, including Causes, have promised through their platforms. And you can spur attention by reaching out to bloggers or encouraging your supporters to introduce some of their friends to your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers.

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