Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. Tags: Conferences summer. My YMCA colleague posed for this photo on purpose to illustrate a point about professional conduct and social media policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. Tags: wearemedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

If crowds can't be trained to appear like the cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland when needed, can they be facilitated? Nitrogen Wiki . Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". Was that crowd trained, facilitated, or orchestrated?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. Tags: Influence Collaboration. This hasn't changed.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

There is a balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. It's how you use the conversation to generate, aggregate, and facilitate social content. Share your ideas on the WeAreMedia Wiki. Tags: wearemedia. How do you plan your engagement and content strategy so they work together in perfect harmony?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. I used to help me with some preparation for tomorrow's presentation on tagging. Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that? That is everyone jump in an edit in real time or do we conceptualize it like a wiki?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. The small groups should a mix of people and include someone with experience actually using the tools and one person who is a good facilitator. The game wiki is here. Tags: scholar.

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MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. Obviously lots to talk about and we are really excited to facilitate the game in more contexts and with other groups!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Can blog communities be facilitated? The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. " -- on the second post I pointed the nonprofit tagging conversation. The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees. Tags: Conferences Experimentation. Hope you will too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

Yesterday, I facilitated a session called Mapping Social Media to Strategy. Good feedback and sharing on the back channel using custom tag #ntcmap. Tags: 09ntc listening. Mapping Metrics to Strategy View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion. They also tag and analyze responses. .” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

This post was written by TechSoup's Lead Technology Analyst, Kevin Lo and originally posted on Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission , a strategic wiki for nonprofit leaders. This post and the wiki feature excerpts, bonus materials, and notes from the book which was compiled by NTEN of the same name.

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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. . I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

tags: nonprofits socialmedia ). Last week I facilitated a workshop at the Kellogg Action Lab's College of Consultants Convening. My slides and other resources are on the wiki. College of Consultants Presentation - Kellogg Action Lab View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

So, I demonstrated how to tag a person in a wall post and posted the question: Manny Hernadez : Should an organization that serves both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking audience (and some only speak one language) have two different Fan Pages in the native language? Tags: scholar technology training training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

The videobloggers were using it on their wiki. I'm connecting it to the questions that came up on yesterday's Community Squared telephone conference to discuss tagging communities and got onto the topic of how online communities are changing given Web2.0. I used the metaphor of a school of fish swimming together in a tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. This sent me to flickr to search by the tag steward to see if there was visual and found the above, plus some religious references from google. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0

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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. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

If you have taken on the role of community manager or are tasked with online facilitation of a community, network, or group and want to see how and if social technologies fit, this is the workshop to take. . For the first Connected Futures workshop almost a year ago, I led a field trip to the NpTech Tag Community and participated as faculty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. rating items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

tags: nptech nonprofits ). I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. In Hawaii, each small group had a social media expert to facilitate the discussion - so the mix of beginners with advanced was okay. I set up a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

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. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki. Tags: training materials.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. Deborah Finn was a participant and shared some of her thoughts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

TechSoup involves online volunteers as subject matter experts, moderators, and facilitators for our community forum. We write every person who responds to a message on the forum per a #DonateYrBrain tagged message. Virtual Volunteering Wiki : in conjunction with the 2013 release of the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook later this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

These tools can facilitate coordination/discussion/communication amongst key stakeholders about the content. Tags: network effectiveness. She offers some examples of this approach from the activism field. The diagram below is Robin Good's Collaborative Map of Online Collaboration Tools.

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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. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Conclusion.

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