Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. His welcome was followed by remarks from Akhtar Badshah who reminded us that technology disruption is our friend. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It's not uncommon to see the "official" hashtag included with the promotional information about the event, even events or conferences that are not technology focused. The Nonprofit Technology community has used a special tag, nptech, created by Marnie Webb in 2004. This takes some facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy. Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to master ever evolving technologies. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. And we are asked to do it with little or no resources. Ironically, if we have time, the last matter is the least difficult.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Nonprofit technology, and more! Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Technology / #AOCS16 / @AOCSummit. Technology. Fundraising. Donor relations.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. Do we have a clear structure? How do we do this well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

a democratically structured non-profit which issues the local currency; the Schumacher Center (which retains its affiliation with BerkShares, Inc.); Facilitating personal bonds between local producers, consumers, and suppliers can increase resiliency in periods of global supply chain disruption while cutting the carbon footprint of shipping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.” Staffing Support :: advising on staffing structures, integration efforts, and hands-on support with talent recruitment and hiring.

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