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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

Here's a few vendors mentioned on the listserv: Live Office Conference Call ReadyTalk Conference calls and web conferencing. My contribution to the list was not to focus on vendors, but to point to a wonderful document that I helped write with Nancy White, John Smith, and others about facilitation techniques for phone conference calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. " Steve and I exchanged a quick comments about online facilitation practice and community design in community blogs. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation? How do you facilitate cross-blog conversation ? How do you nurture conversations?

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. I had a fascinating conversation recently with a program officer about running an online community for African educators making use of good old-fashioned Listserv technology. This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Some tools and techniques follow below. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). The Zoomerang Study of Marketers and Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Some tools and techniques follow below. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). The Zoomerang Study of Marketers and Web2.0

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