Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

My Curated Lists and Wikis. Takeaways. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online. How To Focus in an Age of Distraction. Visualization Techniques. Balance in Hyperconnected World. The Information Diet. 18 Minutes A Day. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. The session notes can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

It is time for the community to write the Hollywood ending ! 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. How do you scale?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The debriefing prompted a wide range of insights, particularly how to facilitate a training when you have individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives. And not all of them have equal access to meaningful and timely resources, making access to high quality support and guidance all the more critical. Paying it forward: ImpactRising.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I've been trying to organize and clean up I don't know how many gigs of information, some dating back to 1992, the year I started working online full-time. My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. Let's catch up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. We will have a monthly theme, which will include resources, discussion questions, and more.

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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. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: . Tool Box.

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Forum One

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. This hasn't changed.

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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. The downside to virtual presenting is that you don’t get to see your friends face-to-face !

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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

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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Amy Sample Ward

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. If we limit the funding conversations to the end, I think groups will have more time to talk about their ideas and will worry less about understanding a fictional Borough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Andy Roberts, who facilitates the wiki on wiki facilitation, points me to Wikipatterns. He describes it as: This was quite an exciting discovery, a group of people trying to put together a pattern language about wiki adoption. Anti Adoption All Wiki All The Time. Anti-People Patterns Over Organizer.

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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. The American Red Cross can’t be everywhere at the same time. .” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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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. Does collaboration on the mindmapping tool work best in real time or asynchronous - or does it not matter? Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that? It feels like a visual wiki to me. I had to play with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

And I worry that we’re overemphasizing transparency about trivial matters and under-emphasizing transparency that really facilitates greater effectiveness. This was the second time in a week that I heard this idea. Substantial – the organization provides information that is truthful, complete, easy to understand, and reliable.

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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

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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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. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. Understand the art of repurposing your materials to save time.

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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. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Why was it valuable and not a big waste of time? Next, the marketing director facilitated a discussion with customer service reps about how to reduce on-hold wait time. So, if you have a listening story you'd like to share - drop in the comments or over at the wiki here. Your organization and social media goal/strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I first encountered Eric after I created a screencast for NTEN called “ Web Analytics Demystified for Nonprofits ” and ( wiki ). What you need to do : If you are doing social media for your organization, either part time or your whole job, you need to handle metrics. He sent me an email. The list goes on and on.

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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. I like delegating the tasks to others in the room I know - like keep timing, take notes, share knowledge. . Mapping Metrics to Strategy View more presentations from kanter. Good feedback and sharing on the back channel using custom tag #ntcmap.

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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.

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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. Timing is key. What times of day are people posting?

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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. We covered some strategy points, but also had the group tweeting.

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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. With limited time and resources, we are often hesitant to make that trade-off. Where do you get the time to put some of what you've learned into practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations. Managing intellectual capital usually includes the development of wikis, communities of practice, expertise databases, and other repositories of all sorts… but let’s pause here and not get ahead of ourselves (trust me, it’s easy to do!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Last week I facilitated a workshop at the Kellogg Action Lab's College of Consultants Convening. I wish I could have attended the other workshops that were taking place at the same time as mine - from David La Piana on Strategic Planning and Dione Alexander from the Nonprofit Finance Fund. (tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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