Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. You also need social content. What is a social content strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater , a place where you try out experimental works before you bring them to the main stage. I was incredibly lucky to have a fantastic group of participants , all passionate about their work, very knowledgeable, and excited about integrating social media into their programs or communications plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are working very closely with Dr. Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. The best part of the project has been an opportunity to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media and instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). As a trainer, sometimes we get into “ruts&# where we use the same exercises and that can make you less passionate about your work. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. JD Lasica , and Laura Novig.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

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. They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation.

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MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This workshop was advertised as a crash course and I think packed enough content in there for 3 full days. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2006

original video content for the Internet and portable media devices. I'm in the instructional/educational category. I don't expect to win given the amazing instructional vlogs that in that category and that I have used to learn how to vlog. I'm a volunteer on the working group.) so you can find my work in wiki portofolio

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. I really liked having "wikitation" (A wiki that you can use for a presentation) for the content See Social Media. He's spot on. Once I get in the room, we throw away the slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. It isn’t about content, although that is important. It isn’t about content, although that is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Of course, the projector didn't work (did I mentioned that I had lugged the 50 pound projector up four flights of stairs.) But it worked out, I think. I could have done some things better with Webinar instructional practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks. But over the past two years, the program has expanded its work to include a focus on how grantees can improve the strength and use of these networks. . His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I have years of blog content and resource collections. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. Surprising or unexpected, as well as unknown, works from the permanent collections are featured. Written instructions were not enough to compel them to do otherwise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. What type of work do you do in the nonprofit sector? I am working on making a living turning other people on to it all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I've been trying to organize and clean up I don't know how many gigs of information, some dating back to 1992, the year I started working online full-time. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. Hackerspaces are about people, not content Hackerspaces are hybrid private clubs/public educational spaces. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. submitted by Matthew Zachary Social media healthcare means a revolution in consumer-driven and patient-focused content delivery. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools! Non-Profit Communications in the 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog ). Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. This post reflections on the training design as well as my content notes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? So when do wikis work?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

They left with free tshirts branded with the museum's name (and other sponsors), wrote about it on a wiki and shared photos on Flickr. Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. The key to these benefits is not the volume of online content produced but its reach.

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JULY 7, 2016

Classes: a furtherance of courses, allowing for instruction and defined building block learning style. Quizzes: Occur weekly/bi-weekly to reinforce class assignments and instruction. The work comes first and foremost and the training follows to improve career activity and function. Corporate Terms. Courses mean different things.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

Promoting Transparency: What it Felt Like to Write a Book on a Wiki I wrote the first three drafts of the book--every word--on a public wiki. I made the decision early on to limit editing capability to people who signed up, so I could vet each person to make sure she wasn't a spammer, but anyone could read the content at any time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. You need to find what works for you to shift you into that mindset. But they also asked to share how I've impacted their work , and by pointing that out created a very meaningful birthday gift. Some Quick Reflections on Instruction.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. It therefore comes as no surprise that a number of our staff have made a commitment to contributing their ideas on open government outside of work. Young Diplomat Program.

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