Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It is a collaboration between sparks & honey , a business strategy firm and the Morgridge Family Foundation. The report is also anticipating a shift to a more collaborative ecosystem in the social sector – something Allison and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit and have watched over the past ten years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

What that means in practice is that norms are the ground rules for how a group of people communicate and collaborate with each other. You can co-create meeting norms with your team or organization by facilitating a discussion about the types of communication or collaboration behaviors that make for an effective meeting or collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

But, you can create a collaborative mindmap online using this application. Does collaboration on the mindmapping tool work best in real time or asynchronous - or does it not matter? You don't get as much control over the look and feel of your mind map as you would with say MindManager, although you can import an MindManager file.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. Teampedia -This collection includes many useful team building activities, icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that want to improve their collaborative processes, including meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Here's the information: Webinar: Conflict in Collaboration: From Getting Along to Getting things Accomplished, on September 20 at 11 am EST, on Trainerspod. Register here : What kind of conflict is productive in collaborative efforts???and and what kind of conflict obstructs progress toward collaborative outcomes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed. More here. I put the RSS feed for the WeAreMedia wiki in - and it displays the changes in a timeline. I wish I had known about dipity from the beginning -- gives you a sense of participation. It only captured the last couple of days of changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. The Conference focused on evolving techniques, tools, and ideas about collaborating across organizational boundaries and elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Teampedia -This collection includes many useful team building activities, icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that want to improve their collaborative processes, including meetings. The toolkit includes easy methods for any team that wants to improve collaboration and creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

He references one of the thought leaders of the sticky notes as a collaboration tools, Tim Brown , Author and CEO of the design and innovation company Ideo,who recommends the Post-it Note as a perfect tool for brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? " technologies, these tools allow people to collaborate over time and distance in both new ways and in new networked forms. Call for Papers. KM4Dev Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding Sometimes called "Web 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

It's a collaborative art project reminding me of the early Internet projects like Douglas Davis 's " The World's First Collaborative Sentence." s to The One Second Film is The World's Biggest Shortest Film is several things rolled into one. " It's a micro-fundraising project - donate a dollar and participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. We have shifted to digital-mediated interactions for almost everything in our lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

What can we learn from citizen journalism newsgathering techniques that might be useful to capturing collaborative knowledge from nonprofit conferences? " Now substitute the word "journalism" and think about the sharing notes and knowledge from conference. Is it all automated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. And that means saying goodbye to cubicles and fixed seating plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. You can updates through RSS. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

My contribution is “Creating a Culture of Philanthropy While Doing the Work,” and focuses on ways to encourage effective cross-departmental collaboration. The piece provides some practical recipes that can help build collaboration muscles while getting stuff done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

One of the workshops was focused on technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace , more specifically how to avoid collaboration overload. While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there’s a downside, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Internal Organizational Collaboration/Resource Sharing - within the walls of one organization that different offices locations and/or distributed staff or volunteers in terms of time or location. (Note from Andy - 3 people on his team are starting to use it because they got sick of getting emails w/url or resource links. Organizational Level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

I've been thinking alot about liveblogging at conferences and Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Events (as well as here ) Many of brilliant colleagues amplified my thinking outloud by adding some great insights of their own, including Nancy White , Chris Brogan , John Smith , Bev Traynor , Rob Cottingham , (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2007

The KM4D Journal is produced by the KM4Dev-community and I was honored to participate on the editorial team for the the recently published issued on " Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing in development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

The subject matter, of course, the effective use of digital and networks that is holistic and that incorporates on culture change, innovation, and collaboration skills. Going forward the MobLab will be working collaboratively with capacity builders to further define this challenge and pilot solutions and new projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

The Sharing Foundation is honored to be selected as one of the possible recipients of the Omidyar Network team-based collaborative funding projects. You can read about how it all is working here. The Sharing Foundation was nominated by the Snapdragon Team. Right now I'm waiting and biting my finger nails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Scale impact through community collaboration: A third strategy nonprofits can use to compete in an increasingly purposeful marketplace is to collaborate with its community to increase the amount of content and awareness it generates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch. Great idea!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." Via a post on David Wilcox's blog entitled " What does it take for online collaboration to work at events? At one end, the communicator sends a message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

They offer “ Campaign Accelerator ” training that helps nonprofits apply design thinking and collaborative creativity methods to develop ideas for effective online campaigns. They offer face-to-face workshops for facilitator training. Luma Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

We talked about the issue of “ collaborative overload ” which is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative online technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done.We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2018

One of my favorite examples is how international development agency OxFam is using bots internally as part of using Facebook’s “ Workplace for Good ” platform, a free version of Facebook’s internal collaboration tool and a competitor to platforms such as Slack, Hipchat, and Microsoft’s Teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. You will learn as you go, sometimes by making mistakes. … Read More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The more exciting models have evolved past the traditional lecture-style instructional styles and incorporate peer learning, self-directed learning, and collaboration. Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together. ” The members don’t necessarily develop powerful relationships and collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. By Beth Kanter & Joan Garry Leading with empathy is one of the most effective ways to avoid burnout at your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space). Encourage staff to look for “points of pain” where busy work, known as the “digital debt” – processing endless emails, managing back-to-back meetings zaps people’s energy or reformatting information and robs time away from strategic thinking.

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