Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2018

We’ll cover different examples, discuss how nonprofits can be prepared, and cover the challenges and cautions as we enter a new age of technological disruption by robots! This post looks at how some nonprofits are using bots and artificial intelligence for internal management and administration to work smarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. Here’s what I learned: How did you get started working in the nonprofit sector? However, now I’m bringing a new tool to my work in the form of mindfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. How does this play out in your work with a nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering. The presentation is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit : Strategies for Impact without Burnout, with Aliza Sherman. I’ve really enjoyed interviewing individuals about the self-care practices they can do for themselves to improve work life balance and their own well-being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The workshops took place in different locations, including LinkedIn Headquarters in the UK, GA, and a co-working space called Second Home , a creative co-working space and cultural venue, bringing together diverse industries, disciplines and types of social businesses. The break helps boost productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

5 Ways to Make LinkedIn Board Connect Work for Your Nonprofit by Geri Stengel. This was my chance to put my teachings to work for Praxis. Experiment with your search: Don’t be afraid to play around a bit and try different search parameters. We’ve all got tips about making LinkedIn work for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

That holds us back from embracing networked ways of working. Having a networked mindset as you approach your daily work can help you get better results. Think about your current work. Work Transparently: The more public you are, the easier you can be found, the more opportunities you have. You can more efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Who in our organization is going to do the work? This is a small pilot to understand the work flow, time commitment and to identify the most effective to incorporate social media into the event that enhances audience enjoyment and understanding of the art. How are ever going to find the time to do social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Working in an institutional setting is far more structured, formal, more face-to-face meetings, slower paced, and less porosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

“ This prompted discussion about the similarities and differences in practice between nonprofits and foundations and how to move to the next level. Projects that didn’t quite work out perfectly. Later, they turn out to be a rich source of learning. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

When users participate in high engagement activities, connecting with one another, a different kind of value is being created. But my core point isn't just the difference between these forms of group intelligence -- but actually how the co-exist in the best communities. Tags: working wikily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. We had a very competent interpretation team of 3 people – who were the best team I’ve worked with and were able to do simultaneous translation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Highlights from Microsoft’s Nonprofit Sector Research on AI Devi kicked off by sharing a sentiment analysis from a recent survey of nonprofit leaders that fall into one of two different perceptions: comfort and concern. These examples of micro productivity examples can applied easily to working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Both have worked for homeless services agencies, ironically in the same type of work – fundraising and communications. And they both feel passionately about working with organizations and people to shine a light on homelessness, tell those stories, and help people. There is one key difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Why Remote Work Is Exhausting. In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. Virtual work can easily zap our energy and drain our emotions bringing on a type of malaise called “Virtual or Zoom Fatigue.” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

These grantmakers are supporting and working through networks to pool their learning and increase the impact of their respective grantmaking practices. The Community of Practice includes diverse perspectives: community foundations and private philanthropies working across a range of issues. When don’t networks work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

He worked at Cern or the UN at the time and everyone wanted to view his public FTP folder - after all it was the "secret" folder.). As the Web started to explode in 1995ish, I remember the dance links getting so plentiful that I started to organize volunteers who could self-organize different sections on their servers. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think We Should Do Our Work! The OE program works with grantees around the world to build their capacity in these areas. Through this process, we’ve considered what works well, and where we can experiment with being more effective and having more impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). What does working wikily mean? How can we work wikily effectively? Flickr Photo by lafabriquedeblogs. And you do that making things fun."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

Making a real big difference demands that leaders do interior work to gain a self-understanding of themselves, develop relationship building skills and facilitating the work work of groups and leveraging their professional and organizational networks, and a clear and actionable understanding complex systems change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

We are only about one month into the world’s largest work from home experiment. A few tips include: use the phone instead, switch to asynchronous modes of working, or use a few camera tricks. Participants can be placed into the rooms automatically (randomly) or you can manually assign people to different groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

I like to balance two different approaches to professional networking, strategic and serendipitous. Harold Jarche , a thought leader in networked leadership, suggests you also reflect on this question: Who are the people with you have most frequently communicated with in order to get your work done? work/life balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Using rituals as part of our professional work is one strategy that can help. I have discovered first-hand the benefits of incorporating rituals into the way I work. My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

As people begin to use these creator tools in different fields and jobs, including fundraising as the example in the Chronicle piece illustrates, there are some benefits. Or maybe not have to work overtime and embrace some work-life balance. Something we call this human-centered approach “co-botting” in our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future. Empathy is contagious and influences and shapes a work culture of caring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

One of the takeaways was, don't assume that everyone thinks like you do - and expose yourself to different points of view. The diversity comes from the different generations in the room, types of nonprofits, and budget size. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. This week I put that into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It means removing the busy work out of their hands so they turn their attention to more mission-critical work. Discovery can help them understand the benefits and the limitations as it applies to their specific work flows. The workplace research suggests some nonprofits jobs will change or be disrupted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

So, while we have different learners and different contexts, we are playing with the idea that the community is the curriculum. In one way, our processes slightly differ here in that community isn't necessarily revisiting and resorting the materials. The learners found that they could work together and rely on each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I am no stranger to family diversity having adopted two children and being of different cultures and races.) The film helps kids see and understand that families can different shapes today. That's a different issue and you definitely need to use a spam filter. What does your comment moderation work flow look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This will be an interactive session and we’ll each be tackling a different aspect of resilience. But a culture of resilience about the collective way that people in the organization work together and how the treat each other. Research suggests that a “positive” work culture boosts effectiveness, resilience, and wellbeing. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2022

The Smart Nonprofit is a jargon-free roadmap for nonprofit staff, boards, volunteers, and funders on the ways “smart technologies” like artificial intelligence are changing social change work. We are thrilled with the initial reception for the book, here’s a few links to different articles we’ve written and interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2022

The Smart Nonprofit is a jargon-free roadmap for nonprofit staff, boards, volunteers, and funders on the ways “smart technologies” like artificial intelligence are changing social change work. Below are a few links to different articles we’ve written and interviews. We are thrilled with the initial reception for the book.

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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. He has a context for what may work and what may not. Dave notes: This works best when people feel a clean responsibility to the work at hand. s feelings of ???responsibility???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

This week we've been working on the " Strategic Social Media " module for the WeMedia project. They're different animals, aren't they? And, do they require different approaches to planning? The general model for an activism campaign is: reflect-plan-act-reflect-plan-act and this works for Facebook Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Simple and small changes in our global, political, and personal priorities can make a huge difference. ???We He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques. t require us to have a dramatic revolution, turn into communists, or all become like Mother Theresa. uncultured???

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