Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

What if you tried different processes to increase engagement or productivity? Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators.

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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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OCTOBER 21, 2008

Alison Fine just gave us a head’s up about a cool project she developed with her colleague Nancy Scola to help ensure a fair and safe election for all U.S. It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

Jana will share some techniques such as mind mapping and sketchnotes as well as share the different options for tools – both analog (paper and markers) and digital (ipad). My Curated Lists and Wikis. Takeaways. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online.

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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

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 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. Documentation of Session.

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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. Then we did several rounds of speed dating which allowed for a lot of peer to peer help on using tools. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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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 identify a framework that will help me design the content. When I'm ready to build materials, I start with me setting up a workshop wiki It becomes a hub for all electronic materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Nearly three-quarters of respondents believe social networking services have been at least somewhat useful in furthering the work of philanthropy in general, but only half said it has helped further their own foundation’s work. What I really like is that you can compare different social channels across foundations pretty easily.

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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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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. Use Learning Theory. The four levels are: Reaction.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Each of these has unique needs requiring different styles and frequencies of contact. Pacific time for the weekly CommBuild discussion on Twitter as Richard shares how to meet the needs of different parts of your own community. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I first encountered Eric after I created a screencast for NTEN called “ Web Analytics Demystified for Nonprofits ” and ( wiki ). He also points out that need to know context – what your measuring towards and that there are different layers of metrics. He sent me an email. Click for larger image. What will change?

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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

AUGUST 11, 2009

I happen to agree with that, which gives me a different perspective on exercises like this exercise in crowdsourcing. In fact, it may be a suitable model for solving government problems, supplementing traditional forms of public participation to help government make better decisions with more citizen input. Nitrogen Wiki .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

We've had some fantastic conversations and brainstorming on the wiki about the strategic issues, including how to know if social media is a good fit for your organization , strategy mapping , meeting resistance , storytelling , engagement skills , and ROI. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia. that will take place in December.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

This post breaks it down for you and lists examples of different types of hackathons. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. NetSquared can help! Check out these resources from TechSoup Global and beyond.

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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. One participant described this as the "strawberry jam" problem that if the training is trying to cover too much content and too many different levels, than it gets spread too thin.

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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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

The webinar featured guest speaker Heather Mansfield , who has been helping nonprofits build online communities for more than ten years. Heather began her presentation by differentiating between the different types of "web." is dynamic — blogs, wikis, and social networks that connect people in your community; Web 3.0

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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. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki. What are your different types of Tweets? Bytes of Wisdom or humor : I share some geek humor now and then.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. What is the difference between pages, groups and profiles? Six questions guided the conversation so we've posted the questions and responses below: 1.

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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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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. is that there is a wiki and polls feature that isn’t available on ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. It made a critical difference at an important moment in my life, and it enabled me to pursue a career in the social sector over something more instantly lucrative.

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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 27, 2008

Curated by NTEN, the community will worked in a networked way to help identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the media. My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content.

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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. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

I think these mashups are tremendously helpful to organizations working to make real change in their communities, allowing them to more dynamically tell their story and make their case in a compelling way to supporters, funders, and the community at large. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

" "How does it differ from others?" " We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. I also used Twitter to post questions that the group had out to my network for some answers and I created a wiki with all the links and posts that I refered to and used it to take notes during the report.

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