Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Plenary content was a creative jigsaw puzzle, a creative collaboration curated by Derek Humphries and hosted by Marcelo Iniarra , from Argentina. Marcelo asked the audience to reflect on what inspires them and to write it down on a card that was placed on their seats. IFC2014 best ever entrance for a plenary session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps.

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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. Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

Session Materials Collaborative Notes, Jason Samuels and YOU! Relive the conference experience and learn from many of the 2,120 attendees through this content round-up! Did we miss anything? Please let us know in the comments. Also, check out the #14NTC Twitter hashtag and #14NTC community discussion forum. 14ntc Community NTC press'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Most of all, I want to master the ability to switch between connectedness and solitude. I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

There was so much love floating around it silenced the NTEN office -- which is really hard to do! -- while we sifted through your posts and reflected on your greatness. So, in summary, #NTENThanks to all of you, for keeping us and each other going. But honestly, last Wednesday, on NTEN Give Thanks day, you really blew our minds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

GivingTuesday lives online through social media—as evidenced by the hashtag in its name—and aims to create a sense of global collaboration for an annual day of giving. Individuals reflected on why they gave to a certain nonprofit organization and then shared these personal stories in a contest form on the #GivingTuesday website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. Here’s some examples. What if we disciplined ourselves to get up from our desks every 20-30 minutes and walked around to reboot our brains?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog shares some planning questions about " Project SharePoint or how the organization will use Microsoft's SharePoint for internal collaboration and communication. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Do you have advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

We wanted to round up all your posts and resources in one place, so you can continue to collaborate and learn from each other. Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization , Beth Kanter. Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation , Beth Kanter. Shai's #12NTC Summary , Shai Coggins.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

We''ve been reading, reflecting, getting inspired, and learning a lot from all of you. Collaborative Notes (add yours!), npfail Reflections and Call to Action from NTC Plenary on Failure , Beth Kanter. Reflections on NTC13 , Monica-Lisa Mills , 4Site. Now that we''ve had a chance to catch a cat (dog?) Session Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

The Packard Foundation has recently published a report commissioned from the Monitor Group called “ Ideas Into Action: Reflecting on Three Years of Building Network Effectiveness.” Peer learning builds capacity, builds network effectiveness, and enables collaboration. Networks are proving their value to program outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Here's a few reflections from people in the room. " What has been going on here is experimentation to understand the possibilities and potential of virtual worlds as an educational , instructional , therapeutic , marketing , and/or collaboration medium. You're not going to have perfection when it is a experiment!

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

We''ve been reading, reflecting, getting inspired, and learning a lot from all of you. Collaborative Notes (add yours!), npfail Reflections and Call to Action from NTC Plenary on Failure , Beth Kanter. Reflections on NTC13 , Monica-Lisa Mills , 4Site. Now that we''ve had a chance to catch a cat (dog?) Session Notes.

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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. Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it. Send out a summary of the ideas generated. Capture their reflections on the flip chart by writing down key phrases. What is Brainstorming?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

So, not only do we have the findability, but we increase the potential for adhoc collaboration. So, was glad that Stephen Downes provided pointers to a few and some reflections: Good summary of the proceedings from yesterday's Eduserv conference on Second Life. See also this summary by Shirley Williams.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In order to get the most out of social learning, your employees must feel free to share professional stories and posts that directly reflect on their work and their industry segment. Assign work that can only be achieved in a collaborative setting. In summary, avoid becoming social just for the sake of the new features.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well. In summary: read the report. I strongly recommend you read the report. Here are my three top takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

The big steps: Preamble: reflection on the role of tech steward. Nancy White does analysis of the orientation of a bird-watching community and gives a brief summary of what each orientation means. When I explore a toolbox, I have two impulses. The first is to feed my inner geek who wants to explore the tools and how to use them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. The white includes a summary of discussion from a roundtable of social media experts discussing the attributes and dimensions of influence and how it differs from other attributes, for example attention.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

In summary, the Chair leads and reflects the Board with full commitment to the organization’s vision and mission; has an understanding of the essential legal, moral, and ethical responsibilities of the Board; and works through policy, guidance, and support. ► April (9) Research Friday: The Office or the Impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

And it's doing it in away that reflects a citizen-centered approach by involving people outside the foundation in every part of the process, starting with reviewing Letters of Intent (LOIs). An executive summary of the paper is also included in the job description. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, May 23rd.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. Observations & Reflections. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know. It kinds of gets in the way of effective facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. 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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

They really got involved here, asking for advice as they crafted summary statements and job descriptions. In reflecting on the entire process, from the planning stage to saying goodbye to the students, we felt that the activity was mutually beneficial. After the orientation, we helped each student create his/her own LinkedIn profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

" Davenport's book was published almost two years ago and is reflection on blogging circa 2004-2005. See Dan Mcquillan's summary over at Netsquared some pointers and good thoughts on Social Media ROI and Nonprofits. it becomes a wonderful resource for any organization to leverage as part of larger knowledge management solutions."

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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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. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. " He used the example of Harry Potter books - not just reading them, but young people working on collaborative writing projects via the Web -- writing and getting feedback from peers around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. We reflected on the applications to leadership.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Mission Statement Craft a mission statement for your organization that reflects your vision and work. One-Page Grant Proposal Draft a one-page summary of your project that hits on all the key areas that funders care about. Partnership Outreach Approach a complementary organization about collaborating on a project or sharing resources.

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