Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

He not only facilitated a discussion at the Sunday Boston Media Makers meeting , but he was also shooting video and recording it. He edited the above short little video of the discussion while on the train to New York and uploaded it to blip.tv We've got to have open discussions about when video is a good choice and when it is not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

The new world of the non profit blogosphere is a discussion started by Patrick O'Heffernan at Socialedge. He summarizes from "The Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere: A New Force in American Politics," a report recently released last week by the progressive New Politics Institute think tank and provides some resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. You have a couple of provocative questions related to the topic you will be discussing or training on and have people line up as to whether they agree or disagree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

You can co-create meeting norms with your team or organization by facilitating a discussion about the types of communication or collaboration behaviors that make for an effective meeting or collaboration. Having a discussion about the rules around camera on or off during zoom meetings is something to discuss and agree on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2018

.” It is a ritual or organizational norm that can used during meetings to avoid unnecessary discussions that don’t support the meeting objectives. If the discussion during the meeting has jumped down a rabbit and become a time waster, anyone can raise their hand and be silent. How does it work? Let’s Move On.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Blogs compliment offline relationships because they help archive and trace out a discussion and because they occur ascychronously. I asked him some questions about connections between offline/online communities and how to encourage non-bloggers into a blogging community. He's written about this topic here. *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

Last week, I took along my N95 and used as a documentation tool - and a way to bring others from outside the class into the discussion. I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. We'll be discussing this online leading up to a conference call Thursday, March 1 at 20:00 GMT. Here's a list of questions we're discussing online now: How does the community evolve along with the tag and how to nurture it? Want to join in the fun?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

There is some interesting discussion threads taking place. There is a panel on nonprofit and tagging taking place netsquared. Even if you're not attending in person, you may have some questions or observations to add. Some of the questions: Why some people love discovery aspect of tagging and others don't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Dot voting is a visual way to see where the interest is and generate a robust discussion about the options. The beauty in this method is the ability to unlock a discussion that can uncover hidden issues and divided opinion when you still have time to do something about it. Step 3: Discuss the results. Review the the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

The NpTech Tag discussion continues. Gavin's original post is here (Gavin, please track back to this and approve your track backs if you are moderating them).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Google Impact AI Summit that shared the learning and case studies from Google AI Challenge winners. The Summit included presentations, panel discussions, and a “science fair” where we could see demos from and talk with the winners. I learned about the People + AI Guidebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Come join me in a discussion about how to effectively pump up your professional network with social networking tools over at Social Edge beginning on September 23rd. Come join in a discussion of this topic over at Social Edge this week. Photo by LaFondito. What type of expertise or connections have you found through networking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

On Tuesday, July 15 at noon EST, the Chronicle of Philanthropy is hosting a live discussion called ' Building Your Online Presence on a Tight Budget." But, it's geared for business and for-profits. Not many of have television advertising budgets.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? How are they different from taxonomies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. I'm hoping to get a chance to finish during some much needed down time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

I learned a lot and just beginning to think about how it applies to the NpTech tag discussion. There was discussion about do you "scale" trust - (via social networking network). So, I decided to participate in the half-hour call. So, this is a little bit raw. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Here are the myths we discussed. Here’s a transcript of our discussion captured in a Twitter Moment. .” I have to say that the best thing shared was from Rob Cottingham who illustrated a key point about the importance of building relationship and engagement! Myth 1: #GivingTuesday is only about raising money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2020

?. This morning I facilitated a virtual mini-workshop for the Resource Alliance as part of its Plan C Online Discussions. The workshop, Work/Life Balance: Tips Fundraisers During A Pandemic included fundraisers from many different countries. The recording and resources can be found here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you need to have rest stops along the way, plan it so that you can discuss a topic while resting. Layout the meeting topics for discussion and synch your rest stops with agenda points. This size group is flexible, as discussion can occur while moving, or if desired the group can stop along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A week or so before he died, he did a podcast with Chris Brogan discussing facing death. As a Buddhist, he bravely faced his deadly disease head-on, sharing his wisdom about living life to its fullest. It is a must listen for everyone and anyone who is facing a terminal diagnosis or is caring for a loved one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Susan Tenby and Paul Lamb from Man on a Mission Consulting are hosting an online conversation about Second Life and Nonprofits over at [link] You're invited!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

During the chat, @GivingTues will start with welcomes, and then lead a discussion about storytelling best practices. MyGivingStory, in its second year, is a nationwide campaign and social media storytelling contest to inspire public discussion about the reasons people give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . The Playbook also discusses the skillsets that a nonprofit needs to use data successfully, both for staff and for hiring consultants or working with skilled volunteers. The Playbook gives you an examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The NTEN Book Club, organized by Lauren McKown and Kai Williams, hosted a video chat this week.This month they have been reading The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout and discussing it in the NTEN online community. Workplace Productivity and Well Being .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2014

Last week, during a convening at the Gates Foundation, they made up buddy up with another participant and go for a 20 minute walk to discuss one of the challenges identified by group. And, I’m hearing from more and more nonprofit folks about doing walking meetings. technobabes #nptech pic.twitter.com/CxTLGQKUYn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Note from Beth: Mitch Arnowitz and I recently participated in an online discussion at Venture Philanthropy Partners/Leap of Reason about creating a community of practice for continuous improvement and high performance in the nonprofit sector. The discussion thread reminded me of an AdMarketing conversation we had a long time ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

There are different approaches to assigning people to groups and facilitating small group discussions from assigning to letting participants self-organize. You can have participants work individually, writing down their ideas on sticky notes and putting on the wall and then discuss. Full Group Discussion. We chose the latter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. Encourage more dialogue and discussion at staff meetings, team retreats. Start meetings with a feelings check-in – how are you feeling today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

They request a copy of the discussion guide or slides so they can create a visual lexicon of key concepts to use during the session. Also, it helps the graphic recorder in planning the use of their space on the paper if you can tell them how much content delivery versus discussion capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

During the discussion, one of the partners asked about how they track whether engaging with their audience on Facebook or other social channel might lead to donations. The comments were discussing what people did when Reddit was done. One of the messages in the book is “Collect less data, think more about it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. Who is defining results anyway? The old adage remains true – we measure what we care about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

They also didn’t overreach, promising to deliver a deep understanding of organizational concepts that would require hours of discussion and reflection. Group interaction, discussion and sharing. Over the eight hours we were together, our group participated in more than 15 unique activities, exercises or discussions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

Then members started posting their own questions, and some people just found the book and joined when we were already discussing chapter 5. While we are still actively discussing the themes in The Networked Nonprofit, we are also using our Book Club to explore related works and ideas. Actually none of this mattered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Following are some of the areas discussed (with the lens of a customized approach when appropriate). Diffuse best technologies for work (i.e. Succession planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

The session was about why it is important to track outcomes, some examples, and discussion. Keynote : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data – I shared some high level ideas from my book and discussion about the three big themes. Accountability Buddies. GMN2014. —

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven.

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