Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. What was our learning?

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They will also have people up and moving around doing thoughtful, interactive exercises, usually in small groups to facilitate discussion and collaboration. They incorporate engaging team-building exercises and icebreakers to break up the day with some laughs and to build relationships. They make the day fun. What’s next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. Defining Roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

One of the fun exercises I facilitated is a “Fishbowl” where a small group of participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar based on their key goals and audience definition. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. We worked in small teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. What is Brainstorming? . see above). Do this for 10-15 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. So, I thought I’d take the time to document my recommended processes here! A note about DIY. Community Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s Not Too Late To Set Your Communications Agenda with LightBox Collaborative’s 2013 Editorial Calendar – Guest Post by Holly Minch, Lightbox Collaborative. The LightBox Collaborative 2013 Editorial Calendar is here!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor. Now I can report that the two policemen were convicted and sentenced to forty years each for the disappearance of Edgar Fernando García. This is a huge legal victory!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Later in the day, we did a network mapping exercise. February 27, 2011.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Documents To Go for Microsoft Office documents. It also calculates calories burned by exercise. PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. It’s a communication and collaboration app. Kid Mode - fun, educational games for kids. TuneInRadio.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

This may be you, or a bit of you; I'm often collaborating with folks, including other staff here at Database Designs, who slice up the tool pie differently. Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Dropbox also has essential team collaboration built in. Powerpoint?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. So, I thought I'd take the time to document my recommended processes here! A note about DIY. Community Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Group Collaboration with Feedback. Matching, Labeling, and Sorting.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. I created this game in collaboration with my Social by Social co-authors, David Wilcox and Andy Gibson. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

So for me, the best part is the collaboration - getting to put our minds together and see what incredible experiences we can create for others. Collaborating with others to look into the abyss of the unknown and have faith in each other, and the process, and to emerge on the other side with something wondrous - you can’t beat that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

I've been creating the cards in Publisher -- not the most web collaborative tool in the world - and putting the resulting document up as a pdf. I will also try and blog about the game - I felt it was a really useful exercise and people appeared really engaged. The problem is that it isn't easy for people to remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The options include: Flex (in office 1-3 days for meetings/collaboration) and Fully Remote (work from anywhere). The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. Hybrid Meeting Facilitation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. I think, actually, all technology consultants, whether they do what I do, or hack code, should do this exercise. Glad you like it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Discovery Exercise: 1. Outreach for your program or to connect with potential supporters.

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Candid

JUNE 14, 2023

An output is hosting six exercise workshops for 300 students. Every activity in your grant proposal should have at least one identifiable person who is going to help make it happen, whether it is a staff member, volunteer, consultant, or collaborator. Activities are plans; outputs are counts; outcomes are changes.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas. Collaborating more with other funders would led to the creation of a pooled fund, more multi-year funding, a common grant application, and the ability to be more nimble.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Boards are struggling to collaborate, make important decisions, and generate community support. Empower your board leadership to exercise effective governance and maintain more control over meetings. Your minutes are the permanent, official documentation of your virtual meetings. Improved nonprofit governance.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. To kick off the course, we’re doing a simple exercise at the Seattle zoo (but you can do it anywhere). Get two strangers talking to each other.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Some projects engage a very small, well-defined segment of the community as partners in the process (such as the Wing Luke Asian Museum's well-documented community process ), whereas others invite open participation (such as MN150 , Tech Virtual , and Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition ) from across the world. Users disagreed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Virtual meetings are not well implemented can mean a loss of productivity or create collaborative overload. As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

Writing nonprofit mission and vision statements can be an exciting (and often anxiety-causing) exercise! However, it is important to invite collaboration from stakeholders to ensure broad perspective, relevance, and audience accessibility. leadership, collaboration, empowerment). Create your Vision Statement.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were scientists, we'd have documentation of each experiment, each publishable result, each improved-upon discovery. But exhibit design is transient and its documentation spotty. I like the idea that this can be a place both for people who are collaborating and know each other well and for new relationships to form.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Use Your Nonprofit Blog to Create Your Own Media Coverage When the men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a woman they beat, bound and strangled after they discovered that she was biologically male, went to trial, the Community United Against Violence decided to use a blog to document the trial. Are there any you could add to your blogroll?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I recognize that this is easier because of the sense of entitlement I'm socialized with, so I try to exercise some discretion when deciding whether my thoughts really warrant posting. Wikis are great for collaborative document development and knowledge sharing. Can you tell me more about your work with wikis and nonprofits?

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

Live documents have made an appearance in some realms allowing for people to not only share an assignment, but make changes on the same verbiage from across the world, while interacting, providing positive feedback, and communicating department intentions across a variety of mediums. Gamification. But, where can they go from here?

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