Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Wendy has worked with senior executives of global organizations to transform their leadership, culture, and organizations. Her field of expertise is in working with leadership and organizations to build their own bridges from legacy to leading edge by identifying blockers and sparking new ways of thinking, doing and being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s been a one-hour weekly chat on Twitter for the past 10 months organized and hosted by Marc Meyer and Jason Breed. The way it works is they invite a “host&# to ask 3 compelling questions, 20 minutes each, that revolve around a topical subject within the business of social media, but that play to their strengths or backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia. I am serving as the Master Trainer and facilitator for the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions. I’d love to hear how it went!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2007, over ten years ago, I launched a crowdfunding campaign to participate in the first ever Cambodian bloggers conference, organized by Tharu m and colleagues. The closing plenary featured Jack Sim , the founder of the social impact movement, The World Toilet Organization. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

Send an email out to your online supporters promoting something unique about your organization that can only be seen on our Facebook page. This first week of the new year, I will doing a week of training for NGOs and trainers in Tunisia for the Women’s Economic Sustainability Tunisia project with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Each month I create the task list organized with different color codes for different types of work/life. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The theme was “Inspired Resilience: How we sustain People, Organizations, and Causes.” There is a nonprofit site called “ Admitting Failure ” that was created by the NGO Engineers Without Borders to avoid having mistakes replicated. How does your organization deal with mistakes and failure?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

The organizers of this year’s N2Y4 Mobile Challenge & Conference tell us there are still a few seats left for the 2-day event convening the best and brightest from an inter-disciplinary field of hackers, entrepreneurs, activists and philanthropists. Save Your Seat: N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference is almost here! Blow your mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

In order to easily share details about an organization's social impact, financial performance, or eligibility, we must be able to firmly differentiate one organization from another. These can be nongovernmental organizations, programs, and projects or other entities in the social sector, including schools and churches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations? What emerged as the idea that TechSoup Global, using a networked mindset could facilitate this to happen. There were 12 topics organized into three different themes. Designing for Serendipity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Connecting With Colleagues.

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VisionLink

AUGUST 20, 2023

With more than three decades of experience in disasters and humanitarian assistance with data management solutions, we would suggest that efficient and effective relief operations need to organize around a central registry or clearinghouse. Many of these organizations already exist in the local community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. We created a network map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

I use low tech tools first – paper, markers, sticky notes, and sticky dots. Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Radio Bilingue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities. I asked if there were a set of best practices or design principles in facilitating blog communities. Steve has shared his learnings on facilitating a blog community. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_communities , nonprofit , ngo

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. There were five organizations participating. They replaced the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. She was the facilitator for the event and did an excellent job keeping everyone on track and picking up key themes. She facilitated the session on "Gender Blogging" on Friday afternoon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive. We want to have the entire population of non-profit organizations on an online system. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

she worked on a program called the “African Peace and Development Initiative” at the NGO, World Learning for International Development , doing project backstopping for peacebuilding initiatives in East Africa. She is an alumna of Up With People and traveled as an Applied Education facilitator with Up with People last fall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. NGOS in India. This workshop was for the NGO audience. My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. Local Community Organizers (#localco). Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. This process emerged based on working for four years in a more traditional development organization sense, in which we were bringing in international volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. In December we sat down with an emerging learning organization with ambitious plans to reach a billion people with a complex array of products and services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops. If you know a Solutionary Woman who works for a nonprofit or NGO who you think I should profile, please email me at britt at brittbravo dot com with their name, organization and contact info.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. We work with a lot of young organizers as well as elder organizers, and we have about seven different programs to speak to that fusion. How did you get involved with this kind of work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Carlos Miranda, the host, did a great job facilitating and designing the sessions. Here’s a few notes. One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. He is working on a social good strategy for Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Another blogger, Chak Sopheap , who now works as a program officer at the NGO, The Human Rights Center. In 2007 at the bloggers summit, she facilitated a session about gender and blogging. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. This was a collaboration among several organizations, A Single Drop, Crabgrass, ProNet Accra, and Women's Earth Alliance. The problem that we are addressing is a great one.

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