Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Are you considering a photo or video campaign for your organization? If you have ever asked your members to post photos on Facebook or asked for stories from your clients, you have tasted the abundance that user-generated content (UGC) can bring to your organization. Pacific time Hashtag: #NPLive RSVP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. Stay tuned for more conversations about topics ranging from microvolunteering to disaster response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr photo by DoroQuez. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. I had the opportunity to facilitate a table conversation about capacity building in transition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Photo by Sea Turtle. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Funders develop service delivery projects, in this case around behavioral health, and used the efforts to facilitate policy change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Some of the leading platforms you may want to consider include (in alphabetical order): Blogger. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ). MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Julie has some good photos from the session in her post, And My Water Didn't Break at All. Photo of Gwen Bell by Joel Longtine. Below are some of the ideas, events and people that have stayed with me this week: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Photo by me. Events December 6 (Berkeley): Seeds of Resilience: Women Farmers Striving in the Face of Climate Change hosted by Women's Earth Alliance. December 8 (San Francisco): The Power of Women Leading from the Heart with Nina Simons * What posts, articles and events inspired you this week? Share Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Photo by Aaron Schmidt. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Photo by Oblivion 9999. Last year, Nathanial Whittemore facilitated an online discussion by asking bloggers to answer the question: " What is the one thing you need to know before you donate to charity? " This year the answer to the question isn't overhead ratios and executive salaries. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. What people, organizations, or online bloggers/sites are in your ecosystem? Share your map online. What are the different roles?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Photo by I Timmy. 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. Your organization and social media goal/strategy? What happened?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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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. posts, photos, video).

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. Do so frequently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. 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. Click Image to see larger version. What tool did you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. What is the best blog platform for mobile bloggers? Here's where the coffee cup photos enter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. I was humbled to join the illustrious list of faculty members who have talents and wisdom in content areas that I only dance around of the edges of.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2011

Your website MUST have an easy-to-find Donate Now button to facilitate online gifts. When you create a Twitter account, it gives you an egg graphic until you upload a photo. For your blog, you use a Blogger blog. There is no Donate Now button on your website. Without it, you’re leaving money on the table. People give to people.

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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. She could not attend the Cambodian Bloggers Summit because she is in the US on a fellowship studying for an advanced degree. In this photo, Pagna is on the left. In this photo, Pagna is on the left.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. I facilitated a session in the afternoon called Managing Information Overload: Finding Your Blog Community."

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Photo by Nic's Events. Here's a story from behind the firewall of a large nonprofit organization - the names and particulars have been changed - but here's how the blogging process unfolded: As the organization's blogger, I facilitated creating the policy. That got me thinking about the process for developing the policy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Some factors she feels can support social innovations' success are: Engaging the crowd and using the wisdom of the crowds to facilitate innovations coming through the pipeline. Top photo: Michele Jolin and Steve Goldsmith. Second photo: Cheryl Dorsey, Sarah Di Triola, and Ian Hardman (President of Management Leadership for Tomorrow).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Photo by Darren Hester. Real-time monitoring and evaluation are integrated to regularly facilitate opportunities for learning to occur and bring timely evaluation data—in accessible formats—to the table for reflection and use in decision making. Guest blogger Gale Berkowitz directs evaluation at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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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. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2008

Photo by Billerr. Listening is a critical marketing practice and it just so happens that social media tools help facilitate listening. Or maybe you're a blogger and you've written a first steps for nonprofits in social media post. Every now and then I get emails asking for advice. " What would be your response?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Did it make a difference? An explosion of EDF bloggers. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

A quick search through Flickr resulted in many photos of beautiful, but toothless children, tooth fairy pillows , a pair of tooth fairies from a dental school, notes to the tooth fairy a dog's visit from the tooth fairy and children's notes to the tooth fairy like the one depicted in the photograph above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. 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. And, yes they did ! in honor of his late mother.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David points over to colleague Michele Martin's post " How to Facilitate Conversation Between Comments on Our Blogs? " Michele analyzes her own commenting behavior and why sometimes she responds to the blogger, not necessarily the other commenters. Flickr Photo by Lynnetter. Lisa Juniker ) The Intensity of Sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Photo by Buddhassit Weaving: This goal is more conceptual and may not make sense to anyone but me. So, I've decided to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. We are also interested in a lot of the same content areas -- nonprofits, collaboration, online communication, facilitation, social media, social networking, web2.0, Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. The Typo Police Page. Note the blink tag!

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