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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Working in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook, the contest invites “everyday givers” to reflect upon why they give to a certain nonprofit organization and then share these personal stories on social media. TechSoup Canada’s Round Up of Nonprofit Storytelling Tools and Resources.

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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! This year, we’ve further refined this handy tool, and tested it with a number of our clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform. 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

These strategies are helping community foundations experiment, iterate and implement best practices when it comes to hosting Giving Days as well as document and spread those practices to others in the Network. Collaboration among nonprofits is key; Miami Arts Brigade was a huge testament to that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

ADOPTA uses cloud services to share files, collaborate and stay in touch on the go. It is also using those tools to fundraise, with great results. ADOPTA uses the secure file-sharing features in Office 365 to make it easy for people from different backgrounds to edit a document, resulting in richer and better written submissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also use it as a year in review tool. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. It isn’t just about the tools, but about how people need to work and think differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. tools, but what happens when you have a group of people who may not be? and I knew where I could find it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

In the comments of a I post I did on continuous computing where I referenced the continuous computing blog and the possiblities for nonprofits, Wade Roush, a senior editor and West Coast bureau chief for MIT's Technology Review magazine suggested some additional tools. (He I hope to post an interview with SJ soon.) One is wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. This leads to better understanding of networks and social media and more effective adoption of the tools and network practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I also use it as a year in review tool. 3) Start A New Journal: As I mentioned above, I keep an annual professional journal, part planner and part reflection tool. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I also look at what was missing or where I was not so happy or made mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. The options include: Flex (in office 1-3 days for meetings/collaboration) and Fully Remote (work from anywhere). Hybrid Meeting Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. The typewriter, by reducing the time and expense involved in creating documents, encouraged the spread of systematic management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. You can add tags to your documents! (No

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I realized that I could listen to other organizations working on adolescent mental health, build relationships, collaborate, and ultimately reach more people with less effort. Armed with a better understanding of social media and the tools, I realized I didn’t need to blast out our message to everyone at once all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

But what about for internal coordination/collaboration? . There are online collaboration tools with social features - many of which can be used for internal coordination/collaboration. So this essay provides some contextualization and principles from online collaboration from the Web 1.0. Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are also nonprofit specific facilitation tool kits like this one for international development projects. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

This mixture leads to rich learning and documentation. If you are bored with my description of process and hungering for the content, here’s Devon’s “Storify&# documentation for the session. As an icebreaker, I asked them to write down one word that leads to a fruitful collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). Conversation is a “learning in public” tool – maybe one of the best. Social media is a conversation engine. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

The framework begins with the four c-s: Content: refers to the idea that social media tools allow everyone to become a creator, by making the publishing and distribution of multimedia content both free and easy, even for amateurs. TheForefront: Successfully Navigating Social Media View more documents from Beth Harte.

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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. To understand networks and their value as a social media trainer’s tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2009

  The hope is to encourage people to volunteer in their local communities, not just for a day, but in a sustained, collaborative and focused effort to promote service as a way of life for all Americans. United We Serve The United We Serve (UWS) project began June 22 and runs through September 11. Three Things Artists Can Do. Post blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

It was created by Greg Cohen to share resources he has identified while exploring tools for the members of the Association of Private Voluntary Organization Financial Managers. He writes: Nonprofits have approached collaboration or information sharing,particularly using internet tools as a resource, through several disciplines.

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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. In a subsequent email exchange with Nancy, she mentioned that Jay Cross suggested [link] because you can store all kinds of documents. Or can you embed pictures in googledocs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

While organizational adoption of social media tools for external communications strategies is becoming more common, not to mention lots of practical advice such as this recent white paper: The Revolution will be Socialized and the many how-to primers for nonprofits like this one. tools would be misused by their staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

   The organization's founder, Quentin Young , has a long history of organizing and supporting movements using low tech tools like mimeographs, bullhorns, placards, shoe leather, sweat (sometimes blood) and public convergence spaces.   The tools available for mobilization were primitive.  We spoke publicly. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I'll be collaborating with colleagues online to further plan our sessions and online materials. In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. Overview of the tools needed. There is just no replacement for face-to-face connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. While it is important for nonprofits to explore new approaches and tools, it's also important to remember email fundraising stills continue to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This role is more about providing London's non-profit sector with a for ICT issues and getting policy-makers and funders to recognise that investing in the ICT of non-profit organisations can actually achieve lots of positives - transforming organisations to work smarter and better, better collaboration and information sharing, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Podcamp - check out how the conference documentation was organized. The existence of a wiki doesn't necessarily mean people will use it - either in an organization or for collaboration across organizational boundaries. David Pollard offers some insights why people don't use collaboration tools like wikis.

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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. My secret is to write out a step-by-step facilitator agenda if using a new technical tool and rehearse it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know. How does SL compare to these other tools and where does it fit on the gradient? And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. NpTech Google Talk Google Presentations: Tell a Story Together: Network Presentations lets us know about a relatively new feature in Google documents called Google Presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. If your organization has a story to share for our book, let us know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Kids are collaboratively working together to build a tale. Scholarships, Role Models (more women making games) How to build change: design games build tools to allow others to design games (example - funded by MacArthur - game to allow kids to design games) design as make-a-game.nl Kids can go online an build stories.

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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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