Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I mentioned a twitter tool called Group Tweet that let you create groups on Twitter. Last week, Techcrunch reported on a privacy disaster that exposed people's private messages suggesting Group Tweet was the cause. Crowd status was created by Darren Stuart who wanted a way to view a group of people's twitter statuses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2007

I am sitting in an affinity group session for nonprofits and creative commons. The facilitator is Amit Asaravala from Techsoup. He gave an informative overview of the creative commons licensing and how TechSoup is using the licensing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? We started the group in the summer of 2006, and have 6,400 members and 64,000 images submitted as of this morning. What is your best advice on using groups? Keep them engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

I could this, however, potentially useful for a group or team wanting to work together and the focus was on research. My problem with it is that I do a lot of my tagging into del.icio.us - so I'd have to fool around with livewire and see if it can bookmark into del.icio.us and then of course getting enough colleagues to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2006

One of the areas I want to explore in a screencast related to widgets are those that help groups of individuals do fundraising via a blog. In the last four years, the number of websites that help individuals design and implement their own group fundraising campaigns has exploded. It's called First-of-its-kind by Peter Deitz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2006

This kind soul happen to walk by when the flickr blogher meetup birds of a feather session ended and we needed a group photo. I know that the photo was taken on this blogher's camera phone. But I can't find her card and I can't find the photo. Can anyone help?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. I met with the group last week. Rosie will give you another group's notecard and you will need to go and look for their box. If there is time there will be more boxes to search for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Consequently, people under 18 years old are making up less of the social network and blogging audience, whereas the 50+ age group are accounting for more of the audience. Furthermore, Facebook has added almost twice as many 50-64 year olds visitors (+13.6 million) than it has added under 18 year old visitors (+7.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

" UPDATE: read what marshall has to say V ia Steve McCarty For active vloggers considering the educational possibilities, I'd like to invite you to join the YouTube Educational Group , to discuss pedagogy and to contribute representative videos: Incidentally, let me call your attention to the following event in Nagoya, Japan on March 24th, which (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

And the next thing I know he invites me to the International NGO Flickr Group. After that, I discovered an interesting photo set in the Link netsquared tag stream and it was Seth Mazow, so I made him a contact. While browsing, happened to notice blogher Kalabird, who is doing NGO work in Cambodia has contributed a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. Group check-ins or icebreakers allow us to become more connected as humans as well as name, claim and move on from distractions and focus on the meeting at hand. I’ve done this with small groups of ten and also on larger calls with several hundred.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. Cameras off does not mean meeting participants are disengaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not I have one blog post here. I know of a very active local organisation that uses 2 great opensource web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2008

The Digital Influence Group is donating $10 to the US Campaign for Burma for every comment that is made on their post. Go comment here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Conflict Resolution: Can help resolve conflicts for pairs and small groups. For larger groups, changing up the environment improves team interactions and helps generate solutions. When you are hosting the actual meeting, share the guidelines about “slowest pace sets the pace for the group and the activity is not a race.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet. There are many ways to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There are different ways to approach dot voting or idea rating , but when I’m doing a workshop face-to-face, typically participants work in small groups to generate ideas and write them on sticky notes All the sticky notes go on the wall so everyone gets to see them. Determine how many dots or votes to give each participant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session. The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. What is Brainstorming?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

Note from Beth: I’m honored to be a member of the Leap Ambassadors Community , a group of people in the nonprofit sector who care deeply about high performance. Therefore, we formed a working group to develop an introduction to the PI that would inspire small nonprofits to undertake the journey to high performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Don't know I managed to miss this one, but some great stuff in this SlideShow (and some great stuff not in this slide show!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Or maybe you want to change up the dynamics of small group meeting by changing your normal routine. And, if you are doing a 1:1 and improve relationship building, moving is helpful. Whatever you goals, it is important to frame why you think a walking meeting is a better fit for the job and frame the issue you want to address before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Use a google document (or create a Slack channel or What’s App group) so your team can capture during the event. We used a private group on What’s App to do this during the event so it was simple to capture. We also met as a group every morning and shared what we were learning over breakfast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Original cartoon from Rob Cottiingham Social Signal. Yesterday, in preparation for a session I'm doing at BlogHer Boston , I created a quiz for folks to self-assess how much information overload was a factor. I got some great feedback and was able to revise the quiz - thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

and ease people into a group meeting or learning situation. It is important to build in time for an icebreaker whether it is a staff training, board retreat, or a workshop with people coming together for the first time. Icebreakers have these benefits: • create a positive group atmosphere. Also be aware of the group dynamics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2014

Or maybe you want to change up the dynamics of small group meeting by changing your normal routine. And, if you are doing a 1:1 and improve relationship building, moving is helpful. Whatever you goals, it is important to frame why you think a walking meeting is a better fit for the job and frame the issue you want to address before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Before the pandemic, many nonprofits encouraged and supported informal meals or coffee together in small groups or pairs. If you are using Slack you can use a randomizer app that selects a small group of people to each lunch together once a week. Virtual Meals, Coffee and Walks Together. One organization does this pizza!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It is convening groups to work on a comprehensive global standard-setting process to provide AI with a strong ethical basis that protects human rights and dignity. It envisions this as an ethical guiding compass and a global normative bedrock allowing to build a strong respect for the rule of law in the digital world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. The “S” stands for slowest pace sets the pace for the group – it isn’t a race. If you already know the wheel chair users in the meeting group, ask them for advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks. The space creates a calm and reflective environment. There are couches and comfortable chairs. How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I was asked to facilitate a small group in a participatory session called “ Digital Forum ,” designed for peer sharing by Marco Kuntz and Mike Johnson. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Here’s a high level overview of some of the methods the small group of 12 participants used. It also helped us a group see the problem together – an important base for innovative thinking. We worked in small groups for the next process which helped us focus the problem a bit more. Our group generated 100 ideas!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

I also facilitated several peer learning groups, including Teaching Tuesdays for trainers with John Kenyon for the Parents Center staff, and a peer learning group on workplace wellbeing for the Resilience Initiative. For facilitation projects, I am working on projects with the Gates Foundation Greater Giving Summit and Google.Org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When he was diagnosed with a very rare and deadly form of cancer in 2017, he created a private Facebook Group called “Watch John Beat Cancer.” I had the honor of knowing John for more than 12 years and working with him – he also did the graphics design for my first Facebook Page. He was loved by so many of us in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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