Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. This way, all of your important data is centralized in one place, allowing any of your tools to add to or pull from it. Take your onboarding online.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Share Human Stories, Not Data While impact numbers and other data can be a powerful representation of your organization’s successes, your storytelling should show the impact you’ve had on people and not just which numbers you’ve hit. Utilize a few slides to share a story. This relates to our next point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

That’s why when I teach people about RSS Readers, I focused on the practice and offered them a variety tool options – see above slide from a recent workshop. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.) Do you have lots of different voices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. So, you have to design for that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He He also said he'd upload his slides on slideshare.). How do you facilitate the hive? He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. The last drawing/map is from a peer learning group of Packard Grantees that I am facilitating based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” from Radio Bilingue. How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? Radio Bilingue.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours. So on the next slide, you can see we partner with more than 500 nonprofits annually worldwide.

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APRIL 22, 2021

Developing a new eLearning course isn’t as simple as one employee sitting at a computer, authoring a PowerPoint slide, and calling it a day. For example, data from your courses will need to be logged in your AMS to provide a comprehensive picture of participation. Creation Costs: What is the cost of online course development?

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2009

If you want the slides, I put them up on slideshare , so free to download them.). What that is, I think, is collaboration and evaluation, facilitated by free-moving data. In the last decade, the pile of data we have to sift through to make decisions has grown from a molehill into a mountain. You've noticed this, I'm sure.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

During the retreats, participants combine periods of mindfulness meditation and loving kindness practices with small group discussions, mindful movement, and creative workshops — nature walks, drawing, mindful sports, theater games, poetry, and facilitated discussions on topics such as gender, diversity, and social justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below. Conversational Key Note.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

1) Follow the Data. Instead of starting with the story, start with the data. Infographics are meant to be data driven and the data should play the key role in the conceptualization of your infographic. Dig into the data. Put in the time to think it through, write it down and build the perfect data-driven story.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. An emcee can also help your nonprofit facilitate smoother transitions with the technology, as that person can remind your audience about important features for engaging during the sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. Data easy to reuse. We got started about a half hour late. No problem.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I talked with Doug Bastien, OCASI's Online Capacity Development Facilitator, and Dave Montague, IT Manager, to find out what prompted them to switch to Google Apps and what their experience has been. Combined with the knowledge that their data wasn't very sensitive, this made the cloud the better choice from a security perspective.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As always, just a couple of quick housekeeping items, I want to let everyone know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording and the slides later on today. I’m Steven, I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion. . Steven: I definitely will. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. Use line charts to show time series data. How do you tell stories with data? (3)

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording, as well as the slides, later on this afternoon. She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. But the floor is yours, my friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

At the NTEN NTC conference this year, I did a session on data visualization for nonprofits called “ Picturing Your Data Is Better Than 1000 Numbers ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. Shortly after, I decided to start curating resources on data visualization over at Scoop.It

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. If you have the slides already, I’m going to ask you to try to not read along because you can only either listen or read, not both.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We will send the recording and the slides to you later on today. And we’ll see if we can get your beautiful slides going there, all right. . It may be that, for some organizations, a really large strategic planning process would include hiring an outside facilitator, doing a. So I’m going to pipe down. Oh, my, gosh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). My blog post with slides and links. His talk was a powerful combination of human stories and data.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories? Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. The first step: Identifying your community. What roles are needed?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The right platform can provide your event with branded event pages , registration and ticketing support, strong 24/7 customer support, data and analytics, and lead retrieval options. . Can they upload and connect their slide show? Virtual networking can be facilitated by the conferencing or webinar platform that you decide to go with.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The right platform can provide your event with branded event pages , registration and ticketing support, strong 24/7 customer support, data and analytics, and lead retrieval options. . Can they upload and connect their slide show? Virtual networking can be facilitated by the conferencing or webinar platform that you decide to go with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

But KD Paine has been saying this for years, and illustrating the ladder of engagement in terms of relationships using the slide above. I recently heard this same idea from colleague Carie Lewis during our Measurement Workshop at SXSW. ” It doesn’t mean that engagement on social media is useless and not worth the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Adding a new data point to it. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. You aren??????t Another example.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Let’s see if we can get those slides going. You may have your slides up on your computer, but try hitting that share button. ” And yes, we are still on the first slide that is called what is philanthropic psychology. Here we go. Let’s see if we can get it going. It’s always a fun handoff, right?

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

You can see her full slide deck from the presentation on Slideshare here. " Causes facilitates these communities and combines them together, though Jen was quick to differentiate them from a software as a service. "Free Data!" Recognizing this, Causes facilitated a matching grant with Salesforce.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. No wonder I am still tired!

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