Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Just keep adding sections. the material???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. tags: arts ). The topics covered included: ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. Therefore, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. It defines the outcomes of training in four different areas that you can measure. You can ask people to share it anonymously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. I also try to scaffold Webinars - and give more overviews and point people to the presentation for links, resources, and more self-directed learning. . How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

And we are committed to trying many different approaches to help our grantees, and our own staff, understand social media and what it could do for all of us.&#. Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value. On the first day, we all sang “ Dil Dil Pakistan ,” a well-loved song that most people from Pakistan know. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

There were some similarities and differences in both the questions and perceptions around engagement and community. One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other. Start Joining.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. This is a lively community, mostly because of the expertise of people like Maddie, Lindy, and Tony who are skillful community managers. The book has a cool worksheet to help you plan these out.

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JULY 14, 2010

Of the nearly 400 people who listened in on Thursday, many say they gained real, actionable advice they could apply to their organization's social media use. The webinar featured guest speaker Heather Mansfield , who has been helping nonprofits build online communities for more than ten years. read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The group was originally set up on Ning, and with the change to a paid-service, Community Links (the organization behind Chain Reaction) helped the network transition to Grou.ps. We tested a few different platforms such as wordpress, webs, social go etc. We also consulted with people in the Chain Reaction network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And Closing the Triangle : This is a network weaving technique of introducing people in your network. Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

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. The wiki content is a first draft, there will be also be a community-driven editing process. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia. project continues into September and October tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Help us build the toolbox! We've organized the tools into different categories that are loosely based on the Conversation Prism from Brian Solis. By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your. So come join us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you combine that with a discussion group and practice by doing – learning soars. This is why I’m passionate about creating, facilitating, and participating in peer learning communities in the nonprofit technology field. They help deepen a field of practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). More information is here. How to identify and do more case studies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

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. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I was also able to share the workshop wiki. Colleague Kaliya Hamlin has this description : This is an interactive whole group exercise that helps highlight the range of perspectives in a group. The moderator then interviews people at different points on the spectrum about the opinions they hold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. There are different ways to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. How are you contributing to people???s s feelings of ???responsibility???

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AUGUST 17, 2009

My colleague Colleen and I spent weeks working closely with the three convening organizations, helping them identify key ways to share their messages and summit activities in a virtual space. The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Know your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. The delivery was a more formal presentation and demonstration, with full group q/a. Having the small group exercise come first – was useful because people were able to take in the great content presented.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

In this "speed geeking" format, participants will rotate through presenters' tables to discuss different topics. NPSM Social Wiki — The new NPSocialMedia wiki offers a one stop resource guide for nonprofits seeking help with social media at the 101 level. Connect with us at NCVS or online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

A connection between people is called link. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks. wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you’ve created a descriptive drawing. Sort the information to find influencers and people to get to know.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

It’s the time of year when people start placing their bets on where we’re going next. Mashups in this sense aren’t going anywhere, especially as platforms are built to help create them with less technical knowledge and in less time. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Some people are beginning to use twitter for adverts…and doing ‘paid tweets’ Is this going against the whole ethos of SM and especially Twitter, when authenticity is the key?” Social media is a tool for you to use to help you achieve your mission. What are the key things we should think about if we are going to use social media?”

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Whatever it is, we need to identify the people/roles and resources needed to make it successful. We had a very valuable conversation about members of the different parts of the CTX community, and the segments that emerged included readers/consumers, activists, donor partners, participants/contributors, and others. Next steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. The Center itself sits three people who have access to six customized dashboards that relate relevant information drawn from various social media channels. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” .” Not Data Driven.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Lots of people were there (I ran out of handouts – I was surprised to see how many people showed up.) The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

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. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. The hands-on education on actually using tools was most helpful."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

Each of us works on different projects for different programs. It seems obvious that there should be a tool we can use to help us here. It doesn't have to be simple or designed for idiots - I work with very smart, technically capable people. I have to jump around to different views for that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

That's hard work, but worth it because good questions and gathering evidence usually guides us to better results. Gift of Time: Real Time Learning The problem with one-shot trainings is that you offer a lot of content and information, people get excited, and then they go back to the day-to-day reality of their busy work lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Over the course of several projects at the Lab, Rick Bonney and others noted that different kinds of participation led to different outcomes for participants. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. We created a network map. Efficiency.

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