Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. The problem is how to accomplish that without it being too confusing. These sections are: . Tactical Approaches.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2011

Chief among them: what tools would facilitate such an arrangement and how to cultivate a collaborative spirit among team members? By reducing time spent on commuting, members of your virtual team can devote more time to getting work done – a benefit for both the employees and employer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. Live in a tool for a month, and experiment with only one tool at time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. With limited time and resources, we are often hesitant to make that trade-off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. I was also able to share the workshop wiki. It is important to shift between the tools and that strategic overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The problem is that many nonprofits approach social media with over blown expectations, don’t realize them, and then throw their hands up and quit. We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group. They discovered that Tweets are more informal, less time consuming than email so journalists may be more likely to read.

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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. We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. What is Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

  In order to play this version of the game, you absolutely need a mix of knowledgable people in the room to facilitate the small groups.  I took some live notes over on the wiki , but Lorelle has a wonderful post summarizing the learnings from the game that can be taken into your practice.  I set up a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. In fact, they could follow his curation and pick items from that, thus saving time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And, there were times when situations happened that I had not anticipated. Like the time I was doing a session in an artists loft and the phone jack was 150 feet away and my phone cord was only 125 feet. And, after spending some time rearranging the room, the long cord wrecked havoc on the Internet connection. No problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A crowd made up of diverse people with as many perspectives as there are people can, when faced with a question, problem or idea, generate a coalescing of sense and thence a consensus. Many of us have been paying attention to the evolution of the Web’s impact on our lives and work for some time now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I try to write there at least 4 times a week. Can you tell me more about your work with wikis and nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." And that’s good thing for solving complex social problems with innovative ideas. I was also wanted to interject crowd sourcing from the audience in the room or via the hashtag on the Twitter ( crowdx ) in real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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? Some reasons why may be: Not enough time. One of the design decisions in setting up the wiki was registration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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. You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. Real-time improvisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

There were some snarky comments on Twitter and during the Q&A wasn't the best time for exploring and understanding different points of view. Nonetheless, in reflection, I wonder: Is it time to stop using the phrase "social media for social good" when we're talking about the use of social media for charity? Unicef's Rapid SMS.

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