Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . Tags: technology training training materials.

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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. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Content Curation on Twitter. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. What happened next was wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. I still got heckled by skeptics (and on Twitter no less!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. . Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

As technology steward for an online community of practice or facilitator of a group that wants to work together online, it is valuable to do this exercise to help you get a better understanding. The goal of this course is to expose students to visualization methods and techniques that increase the understanding of complex data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others. Tags: Information Coping Skills streamline. Don't React All Day To Email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute. Yet, through reading and interacting with her online through Twitter I trust and respect her.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Trust me. They want to connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. Tags: change management guest blogging relationships. I got curious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

(More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). Having this connected network on Twitter and Qik - connect with the CPSquared Meet up Face-to-Face seemed so appropriate. I'll also be doing a field trip of the NpTech Tagging Community. Ryanne and Jay even Ustreamed our live streamed - how meta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

blogs, Twitter, wikis and various widgets (like IM interfaces that help people connect, converse, swap ways of doing things and gather feedback from colleagues and customers). Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator. Tags: crowdsourcing. From yesteryear to tomorrow Enter social software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? What are the techniques for "listening'? How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. The Tactical and Practical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. They discovered a group of influencers won Twitter who were passionate fans of the company and have since enlisted them to spread the word. Joe Goode Twitter Presentation.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2009

Following Ari, would-be topic facilitators stepped up to suggest a session they wanted to facilitate. Deviant, actually showed us the technique to pick physical locks. Twitter and Facebook), while others are looking to build their own organically. Tags: Events. s boondoggle in the nineties that made public people?s

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Before the event we used the Knowledge Garage to share document resources with participants, promote discussions and idea sharing, and to facilitate online connections so participants could better connect with each other when the Summit began. Tags: Collaboration Communication Strategy Technology. Be creative AND flexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. I put this question out on Twitter and summarize in the next blog post).

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. Tags: Influence Collaboration. This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. Approach it carefully, but remember to also have fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. Before I went on Twittered. My colleagues in the audience like Marshall Kirkpatrick and Holly Ross were twittering. Tags as a metric. But jet lag and three lattes makes that difficult.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag.

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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." We were also very lucky that Claire Sale volunteered to be our Twitter advocate who monitored the Twitter stream and verbalized important points and insights. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd 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. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. Network Weaving With Books and Twitter. Tags: india. Next Tiny Steps.

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