Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. The teachable moments discussion was rich. You can find the slides and materials on my wiki here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The two discussion questions were: What are your expectations for the project as a social media trainer? The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The discussion was not a black and white debate about the definition of transparency or whether it was good or bad. There was a rich discussion about defining effectiveness and how to measure it, but what interested me more was the discussion about measuring transparency and its links to effectiveness. No shame in failing.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Here are some examples of the questions you can ask adult learners to write down and then discuss in small groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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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. One of the themes that bubbled up was the role of ambient data from social media channels and I agreed to lead a discussion on: How useful is this data for foundations? We discussed some of the social media monitoring tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives. Interactive community : Engage with others in this work, via a discussion forum , articles , blog and wiki (hosted by the Packard Foundation). That’s the what Dan taught me, at least.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. What is social media? -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This ranges from online discussion of the issue to hosting an Emergency Social Data Summit – or #crisisdata on Twitter on Thursday August 12, 2010, in Washington, D.C., This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. It can also facilitate informal communications with other people in the grantee organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Talking and hearing (Auditory). Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

Yesterday, I facilitated a session called Mapping Social Media to Strategy. All this will be shared through a lively mix of discussion and case studies. I wanted to get away from the expert at the front of the stage and have an informed discussion between panelists, audience, and myself. . The discussion was fantastic.

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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. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

A facilitated workshop. A dedicated network space for post event support and discussion. The etoolkit wiki is here. My colleagues in the UK David Wilcox and Dave Briggs have started an open process to develop some tool kits for organizations and social media. It came from this open project: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Next, the marketing director facilitated a discussion with customer service reps about how to reduce on-hold wait time. So, if you have a listening story you'd like to share - drop in the comments or over at the wiki here.

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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. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. Are the three wiki tools listed free? look here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Bringing democracy and policy deliberations directly to the people by requiring his Cabinet officials to have periodic national online town hall meetings to answer questions and discuss issues before their agencies. There will be a lot of interesting discussions and developments in the coming months. add your own ideas!). Steven Clift.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Some users are more savvy with Twitter and wikis, while others need help just accessing the conference wifi network. Knowing your audience: what they want to get out of the online portion of the event (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I really liked having "wikitation" (A wiki that you can use for a presentation) for the content See Social Media. wik) The wiki worked well because it put a lot of links and some visuals as jumping off points for discussion. Most of the content questions were familiar, but I got a few that are still making me pause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

Much of my connection has been facilitated by online technology so it was great to participate - finally - face-to-face. One of the things we discussed was were strategies for resourcing the World Cafe. tools that facilitate this. As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time! Dave founded ???Spot

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. ll do some live demos of these tools, discuss their potential to enhance our work, along with some of the concerns they raise. And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. " We???ll

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Sticky Note from TechSoup Global Summit (click on image for wiki). Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. In Hawaii, each small group had a social media expert to facilitate the discussion - so the mix of beginners with advanced was okay. I set up a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools. Over a period of 3 months, through weekly themed online discussions, mentors will facilitate discussions between the participants on strategies of applying a variety of ICTs to their work, particularly within development organizations/initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Managing intellectual capital usually includes the development of wikis, communities of practice, expertise databases, and other repositories of all sorts… but let’s pause here and not get ahead of ourselves (trust me, it’s easy to do!) Instead, make sure you are offering personalized outlets to stimulate both feedback and questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

This wiki joke went over well: What happens when a crowd of film fans use a wiki ? On Sunday, for Boston Media Makers , I will facilitate a discussion from participants about their best online promotion tips. I wonder if this will work as well with people who are not filmmakers? It did with Extension Professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

The videobloggers were using it on their wiki. I'm connecting it to the questions that came up on yesterday's Community Squared telephone conference to discuss tagging communities and got onto the topic of how online communities are changing given Web2.0. The metaphor is a web walkie talkie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

TechSoup involves online volunteers as subject matter experts, moderators, and facilitators for our community forum. We developed a web page describing the program , which involved drafting, discussing, and finalizing content. Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative.

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