Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Chris Brogan started a wonderful "open thread" that ignited quite a few comments and discussion. As of Friday evening, there 77 comments on this post. And, there have been many spin-off conversations on other blogs as a result. There in lies the key to effective conversation sparking. Impressive.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Bopaiah further teaches that “engaged leaders understand that if they want to design more equitable organizations, they need to center people who have historically been pushed to the margins. I recommend you first read the Discussion Guide toward the back of the book before you read the book. That being said, equality is not all bad.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Bopaiah further teaches that “engaged leaders understand that if they want to design more equitable organizations, they need to center people who have historically been pushed to the margins. I recommend you first read the Discussion Guide toward the back of the book before you read the book. That being said, equality is not all bad.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2021

Dedicate time at your next board meeting to discussing the full financial picture for your nonprofit in 2019, and ask them to help set fundraising goals. Topics for discussion should include: An overview of your financial needs in 2019 (and beyond, if possible), including how you plan to allocate these resources.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Facebook discussion board here. A good third place is one that you can walk into and be swept into lively conversation or unstructured revelry.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. And here are a few suggestions from commenters. Read Fierce Conversations. Book group, conversation, whatever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. There are different formats that you can use to make it more interactive: panel discussion, or interview experts.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I sat in on a session by Joe Sokohl that turned out to be a tour of three lovely and inspiring homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright , and a discussion about how we can apply lessons from his architectural genius to information architecture. Tell us in the comments! Does it work for users with usability problems/disabilities?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 15th).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Are there civic organizations in your area that are hosting conversations? If your museum has not until now been involved in community discussions, you may be met at first with suspicion as to your intentions. They are developing information on how to conduct community conversations on race. We know that this is not the case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. I would add another way to add or get value and that is join the conversation in the comments of follow curators and ask them your questions.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2020

Talk about how your organization is supporting the community–discuss what you are doing for the health of the community and the why; for example: “ Our neighbors of all ages are important to us, to protect the most vulnerable members of our community , we are raising __.”. Have a plan for how to handle any negative comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

What I’m most excited about is “networked learning&# – it is part peer learning, part content-delivery, and another part engaging people in the room and not in the room in conversation through the use of social media. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

where he discussed the crossroads of movements and campaigns and the need for an open culture. We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization. First, we need to move beyond the false dichotomy of message control vs. conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. This post generating a lot of thoughtful discussion about nonprofits approach the editorial planning process as well as sharing of different editorial calendar templates. But it is important to understand that there is a process behind the template.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. Use the Twitter hashtag #er20 to continue the conversation.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Facebook discussion board here. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

A couple of weeks ago NPR ran a segment entitled, A New Generation of App Developers , discussing the emergence of creative and youthful app developers. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. " Powered by CDI , Apps for Good is working with youth in the UK to teach them how to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

She seems to be involved everywhere nonprofit technology is discussed online. Beth practices what she teaches (and let's others watch and participate as she does it). I'm delighted to accept this award on behalf the many NpTech gurus who share their thoughts and ideas on their blogs and in the comments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Have them prepare a list of contacts throughout these discussions that they should spend time reaching out to via telephone or, at times, in person, to acquaint themselves with these key people. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Urge them to become a listener and learner at first, rather than a talker.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

For this week’s post, we welcome Angela Francis from Nonprofit Finance Fund to discuss NFF’s recently released State of the Sector survey findings. We welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions! 5% feel able to discuss their debt burden. "5% feel able to discuss their debt burden."

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. commenting on any item. Some are successful, but messy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. What is a movement? How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2011

Its worth a serious conversation with those nonprofits to determine the best course of action. Ask away in the comments section! For further reading: ^ [1] For a more in-depth discussion about these numbers, click here to read "Really, How Many Nonprofits are There?" Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. My notes are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

" Over ten years ago someone in an Internet Skills Workshops for Nonprofits I was teaching, said that. It was during a discussion about moving from fax machines to email. There has been an amazing conversation about twitter on the social web over the past couple of days. Chris Brogan mentioned in the comments I quite agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. In 1998, I was teaching web strategy workshops in which I described a number of strategies for failure on the web. The online conversations that are starting around those issues are very exciting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." How do we continue to connect and have a conversation facilitated by different social media tools? Thoughts, leave them in the comments. " and writes about how to engage more deeply in conversation on Twitter.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

z International Foundation discussing Millennial Leadership. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. Conversely, often millennials need education on what form professional communication look like. Share your experience in the comments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

When we let this discussion unfold, it simply reframed how we looked at “internal” or “proprietary” data. Please share in the comments below. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time. And when we fail, the donor would be notified at the same time as the executive director. We don’t have to pretend to be perfect.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 27, 2011

It's satisfying to know that we've helped them get started on the discussion and because of that they will keep it going and act on what's discussed. I think many students would benefit from witnessing the panelists and the conversations that follow. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Thanks for the post!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. 09 was the first version I used).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders. What did you learn that from your experience that you apply to starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders? I got inspired by this post and left a quick comment, but then I reading comments by others and folks who wrote the answers on their blogs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. You can also tweet us those questions and comments, we’d love to hear from you there. I want to hear your questions, your comments, your responses. And I don’t want this to just be a one-way conversation.

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