Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. She is the third person to mention a remix. I invited folks to join the nptech group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. I've worked with other groups - small business, higher education, librarians, educators, and others, but never all mixed up. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view.

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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! . Not just the usual suspects.

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

  As I mentioned to the group,  it is always a work in progress and this Aloha Remix included some new ideas - the point system, the situation cards, and scenarios that were not all non-profit. s time to rethink and remix everything you knew about marketing.   Hmm. s a new world and it???s Start today.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. After each participant selected an experiment, we grouped them together and had them work together on setting it up. This is the gift of time.

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DECEMBER 1, 2006

I discovered this new tool during a discussion on the NTEN Affinity Group list for nonprofits and flickr about how to be efficient using flickr. The students had to create an image that was representative of the organization's core values and then create another image that another student could remix. Anyway, here's the flickr set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I said yes.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. I had noticed that there were over 300 groups in Facebook for SurfRider, many remixing the official logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. Next, we'd break into 3 small groups and each group would be given a pack of cards. Each group would be asked to: 1. I'm debating about giving each group a different scenario - like the questions here.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. The culture allows the experimentation On the ground, Witzel says, his program group is experimentating. Witzel notes, we don't have the barrier of "paralysis by analysis.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant. We created a network of fans who are remixing our context and spreading our message, how do we guide them effectively without controlling them? How can we activate the activsts in the real world? (I

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. It facilitates free agent fundraising. And, yes they did !

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APRIL 12, 2007

A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! The questions that emerged from this group were not different from those that are asked when we talk about online facilitation and online communities.

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MAY 2, 2008

So, my first steps into social media were logging onto a BBS for disability rights and support groups called Project Enable back in 1989 via Fidonet. I used the BBS to post questions asked by people in a local face-to-face support group who were not online. I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc.

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DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. One of my favorites is the computer recycling group, FreeGeek. So, why not consider a micro loan to lend4health that facilitates loans to individuals with autism spectrum disorders so they seek treatment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution! Open Content for Nonprofits?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. 9237 is the average amount raised when groups are working on a team to fundraise. 5: Activate a group of champions to tap into their networks and share the buzz.

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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? There are different ways that people are organizing to work together - facilitated and spontaneous. Facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

In the end, the key around these practices is that when we engage all or part of the group in the production of our "learning artifacts" -- we all learn more AND we make some of that learning available to others. Nancy White bounced some more ideas on this topic here , with an even grander synthesis: It is about the Learning!

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