Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

Here’s a few reflections about presenting remotely in locations outside of the US. Tharum Bun , a blogger in Cambodia that I have known for ten years, did an introduction and I presented for 25 minutes. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

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. Her writing is reflective and brilliant. Both are essential reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some long time favorites: Nancy White is my go to guru on all things facilitation and has been for more than 10 years! Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2007

That's Sok Sidon, a blogger I met in Cambodia. He wrote a post called " Learning and Teaching Methods for Self-Development " where he talks about 7 principles for reflection. He is trainer and you learn more about his background on his blog's about page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

7: Transparency and Replicability are Paramount to Sound Measurement: Measurement methods need to be shared as well as how specific metrics are calculated. The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience.

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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. This is a great method for peer learning. What is the best blog platform for mobile bloggers? And, this was also mentioned on our discussion thread for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit too, but a different blog post.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.". The latter reflects an approach we refer to as “real-time” evaluation. 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

JANUARY 2, 2008

" and goes on to describe those all too familiar uninspired periods you face as a blogger. I have immersed myself in creative thinking methods over the past 15 years. Another one of my favorite creative thinking methods is: A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD: How You Can Be More Creative. Flickr photo by Lostajv.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Here is a definition from the Campus Compact site : Service-learning is a teaching method which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility. Service learning is really a partnership between the student, the organization and the professor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. nonprofit technology. You can find the columns here: [link].

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MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. The ASU Morrison Institute presents both numbers and asserts that both survey methods have strengths and weaknesses, likely leaving the true rate somewhere “between these two estimates.&# One in four.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

There was also a bit of reflection to identify how to efficiently use FriendFeed and determine its value to nonprofit. Some people choose one site or method to connect with others, while others are "network weaving," jumping from one site to another. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? Katya's Nonprofit Marketing blog asks "Do you ever you're mindlessly repeating the same outreach methods? Pulling my hair out! Any suggestions? What's your guess?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Start by genuinely complimenting the blogger in some way and point out where you do agree. It's messy. Step 1: Find People.

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MARCH 27, 2008

This is something we have been working on at See3 – methods to build a network of influencers in the social networks who will carry your torch. Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. The last session on Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

We also like to believe she was one of the first proponents of the "shine theory" with her quote, " There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ". Tavi Gevinson is an American writer, fashion blogger, and magazine editor. Murasaki Shikibu. She won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I only needed to dump it from the temporary file into blogger, but I couldn’t find the five minutes. I probably could change this method, but I’m old and I’ve never been good with tricks. Last week turned into an empirical study in my own personal goal for the year (being kind to myself). Sure, there were five minutes somewhere.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School. As the technology for making podcasts becomes increasingly user friendly with Web sites like Odeo and Gcast , they are a tool not only to reach adults, but young people too.

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