Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Also, check out the twitter stream for the #omc09 hashtag. I was so interested, I facilitated a session.) One thing that would facilitate this would be a more robust API system in CiviCRM – access to the data via REST or JSON, which would allow CiviCRM to talk with some of the tools out there like Mesh4X. I learned a ton.

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DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. Let's take a look. How do you make easy? What is the reaction?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Follow the chatter on Twitter. It is up to each city team to facilitate nominations and the selection process using the Twestival guidelines. Check out Twestival Local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2010

Earlier this week, I was facilitated a peer learning conversation about ways to make listening actionable, particularly on Twitter. One of the participants observed that Twitter is an efficient and easy way to see what other similar nonprofits are doing in social media spaces and get new ideas. It takes about 30 minutes. (1)

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

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. Tags: campaigns presentation facebook lpw philanthropy romania workshop. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org I’d love to hear how it went!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. pistachio is someone who considers part of her job as “twitter whisperer” — nice. npsmpeer — Brian Fitzgerald (@brianfit) March 10, 2013.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Mobile phones, texting, facebook, and Twitter are just a few of the ways in which relationships are being redefined, established, and maintained by technology. Giving to others in need can be full of mixed motivations and our hope is to facilitate Pure giving." Tags: roundup bookmarks. You tell us, we add to the map."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. Note on platform : During last week’s Twitter chat, not unlike previous chats, we dealt with some major issues around lag and load time. Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. I finally got to meet Mary D Barber face-to-face and shared the story about Holly Ross inspired to use Twitter. Tags: Conferences alaska.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Over half of the organizations surveyed reported that they do not use Twitter and do not intend to, with only 24% reporting use of the tool. Twitter is part of the real-time Web, meaning it enables people to communicate, share information, spread news, and distribute links in “real-time&# as it happens. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

What this created was a chance for people who use Twitter to come together offline to create community. It is for the community, by the community, all thanks originally to Twitter. Tweetup used a blog to keep people updated, a Facebook group to gather interested participants, and a Twitter account for communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Tags: Conferences Experimentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". She often uses Twitter to get ideas and feedback on NTEN's various programs. I think it depends. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Training Design isconf.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

That their web site may be or incorporate a blog as well as integrate, videos, podcasts, and photos. (2) Social Outposts: This is your organization's presence on social networking or social media outposts like Twitter, Facebook, or other places. Tags: wearemedia. This content is a organic, always growing and changing. (3)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. James Leventhal facilitated a workshop in Portland last month along with Adam Rozan of the Oakland Museum of California and Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology. Tags: Housekeeping. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We had one person handling the technology and another person serving as moderator in the room. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked. Tags: Conferences Tips Training Design ffog remote presentation skype twitter video. Talk about multi-tasking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator. I even ask them to twitter their answers or provide more insights for the audience via the back channel.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. Tweetawatt: will send out information via twitter about energy usage, on Makezine.com. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

I've been following him on Twitter and have been following his social media/social change blog but hadn't made it to his company's blog. Collaboration: refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. I've been following him on Twitter and have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I’m also a champion for the Blue Key Campaign which is using a Facebook Group to coordinate and communicate around our work supporting the campaign. Last year, Darim Online used a Facebook Group to facilitate a virtual book club for the Networked Nonprofit. It was such a terrific post I invited her share it here.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

In the Jewish community, we’re starting to see “program director” positions start to take on “community facilitator” characteristics. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Tags: 10NTC Lisa Colton NPTech Communications. In 2010, I expect this to become more explicit, especially with new hires. link] (blog).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few. When I peeked at my Twitter stream and saw the happy birthday tweets, Facebook wall posts, and blogs, I nearly fell off my chair! Tags: birthday. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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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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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." Technorati Tag: GDNET09. Tags: Strategy. See the participants map of the world.

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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

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” This is about facilitating discovery, nurturing trust, sharing experiences, and light-weight focused request/responses.”. What ecosystems facilitate serendipitous discovery and collaboration? And he thinks that’s awesome.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Guest blogger, Lauren Friedman ( @lauren_hannah on Twitter) is a community manager, writer, blogger, and photographer. This month's Online Community Meetup featured facilitator, Bill Johnston , Online Community Manager for Dell and longtime online community expert, Randy Farmer , speaking about online reputation systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Naturally, my colleagues and I have taken the lead in establishing our organizational presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Ning and posting to our blog. We called on our network to take action with emailed action alerts, phone calls and posting messages on Twitter and Facebook. Tags: change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The event is sponsored by Patagonia as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility program. I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. Twitter: https://twitter.com/nfswildfish. Instagram: https://instagram.com/nativefishsociety/.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. Tags: change management.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Google Analytics and Twitter traffic tell me that a lot of you are interested in the hotness that will be the ONTC , but apparently a few of you still need a little push to register before the last minute. veritable Who's Who of nonprofit tech speakers and facilitators. We're less than a week. away from the Online. TechSoup Global.

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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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