Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. And, get direct access to practical tools that you can use within your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. I haven't yet seen any case-studies or how-to posts with advice to free agent fundraisers or nonprofits on how to organize or facilitate this a "Charity 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement. ” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard.

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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. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Photo by SMEXbeirut. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. 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. I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Flickr photo by Panacheart. I had the opportunity to facilitate 3 world café sessions on this topic this morning at the GEO: Growing Social Impact in a Networked World funder conference. How can networks facilitate that? Guest post by Mary Manuel. How do networks evolve into movements?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr photo by DoroQuez. I had the opportunity to facilitate a table conversation about capacity building in transition. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. Flickr Photo from Employment Now. (2) When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Flickr Photo by Tiffany.Ann.M. One of many ‘ah-has’ came early during the well facilitated conference. Guest post by Scott Bechtler-Levin. It was just an off-hand comment from June Holley that the basic building block of network weaving is the “ closing of triangles ”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 16, 2010

During the teleclass we'll discuss: How a Big Vision Circle can help you reach your creative career goals How to find people to join your circle The pros and cons of virtual vs. face-to-face Big Vision Circles How to facilitate your Circle Problem-solving (e.g. Flickr photo, Circle of Life uploaded by red twolips/magdalena.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Absolutely brilliant! at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2011

Flickr Photo by Soyignatus. Millennials don’t just want to write a check to your organization – they want to combine their personal passions and interests and engage others in your mission. Are you facilitating this with your fundraising approaches? Are you facilitating this with your fundraising approaches?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll The curriculum is based on the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit and includes social media strategy development as well as practical skills training. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2012

Sarah and Amy will be facilitating an hour of nonprofit technology poetry reading and you can read your submission to the full audience in the Beacon Lounge! Photo credit (Flickr: [link] ). There will be winners and there will be lots of great prizes. We can't wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. Who will facilitate? Note from Beth: Whether you are planning to present at a conference or deliver a one-day workshop, the secret to success is in good design. You just lump a bunch of speakers together and hobble together some content.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ). It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Just let me know!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall. Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

They have all kinds: cards that go in your printer, cards you can paint on with watercolors, photo frame cards, and "green" cards made of hemp, bamboo and recycled fiber. For inspiration, check out the book Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art , and its corresponding Good Mail Day Flickr group. Any recommendations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. One of the modules is on meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. 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. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Photo by Feast of Fools. It's been over a month since my trip to Australia where I presented and facilitated workshops at the ConnectingUp Conference. I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Are you considering a photo or video campaign for your organization? If you have ever asked your members to post photos on Facebook or asked for stories from your clients, you have tasted the abundance that user-generated content (UGC) can bring to your organization. Pacific time Hashtag: #NPLive RSVP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Origina l photo CC by license in Flickr User Start Cooking. The online facilitation list recently had a thread about choosing wikis. I found the above image in Flickr under a license that allows me to remix it -- so I changed the title. I'm also reminded of Andy Robert's wiki on wiki facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees. Conference attendees will be asked to download and join the Emergency Data Society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant. This book is a gem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

Photo from Steve Song's Flickr Stream. If you're interested in collaboration and facilitation from an nonprofit perspective, you should subscribe too. I've been enjoying email threads with Steve Song about teaching tagging. He pinged me today to point me to his reflection on a recent tagging workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? Do numbers only matter? There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Flickr Photo by qwrrty. For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. It is basically a pause.

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2010

Flickr photo by Giorgio Montersino You probably already know many of the advantages of working virtually: no commute (saving money, time, and the environment), fewer office space requirements, improved morale, or maybe even an office on the beach.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. These two projects were always facilitated.

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