Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. Cynthia Shaw (@cynshaw) May 22, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked! . And two more new blogs are on the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

  The game is intended to help you think through a social media strategy and share tips and knowledge.   Each group will be assigned an instructor/facilitator.   Here's an example: Photo by Bitmask.   I got an email from Demetrio Maguidgad explaining how he remixed the game, how it worked! . 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." There are examples (see below). Laying down guidelines makes everyone think they have more control and it helped everyone to feel better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

For example, during the lab session, we got a terrific question about bilingual Fan Pages on Facebook. If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it. Many people have also remixed it. Learning Together Over Time. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

It's the agency's campaign designed to inspire individuals across the country to help advance the common good through giving, advocating and volunteering in the areas of education, income and health. This a terrific example of in working in networked way. Here's an example. Iavor is primarily looking for content to tweet about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

Sometimes it is very useful to have fun examples of new technology. When my son, who was born in Cambodia, lost his tooth, I turned to social media to help him learn about Cambodia customs. when introducing it to people -- it made want to play with the idea -- social media and the tooth fairy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement. You have to set an example and it only takes a few people to do that and it seeps into the group."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. This helped us bring in people with knowledge who are not in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. I did a presentation on social media and nonprofits in the afternoon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. Here's a few ideas to help make charitable giving get on your calendar each month for 2009. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Beyond the dollars raised, there is also value in growing your organization’s network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way? This has to be set up in the right way - for example. Levels of Participation. 3) Joins the community.

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