Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

As we continue to use this tool, we are eager to hear from our colleagues about what lessons you have learned about how to plan and execute a blog carnival or similar effort. Below is a brief outline of our blog carnival effort, including the questions that we are exploring as we move forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2006

This is the lesson that personal value precedes network value: that selfish use comes before shared use. via Alex Barnett Blog. "From now on I???m m going to call this idea the ???Del.icio.us seeing it more and more everyday in services like Del.icio.us, Flickr, and is an interesting aspect of networked applications. Even though we???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

We attend the water festival, stay at local hotel, eat meals together and have culture lessons. This lesson was really useful because I am hoping that at least one night while in Cambodia I'll get to practice my khmer dancing skills. This year Somaly Haye taught our children some dance steps and games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" " Here are my lessons: 1. I'm going to tag a few folks to share their lessons learned about social media and nonprofits and tag others. What are your four lessons learned about nonprofits and social media? What would I do differently?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Click To Play The next day I went out to Roteang and observed a google search lesson being taught at the Sharing Foundation computer school by Mam Sary the head of the Sharing Foundation's English School program. You can read more about the program over at the Sharing Foundation's web site ).

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JUNE 30, 2009

Here are 5 quotes from the Boogie Down Productions classic " My Philosophy " that provide lessons in storytelling that all nonprofits can benefit from: "You're a philosopher? KRS1 would go on to become an expert at using music as a vehicle for social change (a whole other blog post), but early on it was all about telling his own story.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum , a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit. ” This generation is loosely defined as those born after 1995 and who are now 18 and under.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I select guests who can answer a specific set of questions related to my lesson plan or expand on an example of a campaign or example that I share. I always create a lesson plan, a more detailed agenda, that includes topics, bullet points, timings, processes, and materials, even if I am the only one facilitating the class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. It's slow, but he is able to teach a lesson to the students about how to find supplementary materials for their school assignments. The connection is to slow for blogger or Facebook to load.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Back over the summer, I wrote a post called “ What was your worst social media mistake? What did you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

In short, the process boils down to these steps: Capture the lesson learned (big or small) from your own observations or asking for informal feedback from participants during the event. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. Review it together in a meeting and summarize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

She not only shares many compelling and inspiring stories of how passionate social change leaders have built and scaled effective nonprofits, but distills the lessons into useful principles and actionable information. While stories are about social entrepreneurs, the lessons and advice is useful for all nonprofit leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

As more kids are heading back to school, teachers and whole schools are embracing the challenge and teaching some important lessons about philanthropy. John Haydon: 3 Big Fundraising Lessons from Ice Bucket Challenge. 5) Whacky, Goofy, and Fun: “Stunt Philanthropy” has been around for years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

#thankful4home: A Lesson in Project Based Learning & Gratitude guest post by Lisa Colton. This fall and winter I’m working with a group of organizations in Chicago to raise awareness around homelessness, alongside screenings of the @Home documentary that features portraits of this issue through the eyes of activist Mark Horvath.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The panel session about innovation shared lessons learned from both Google employees who were working with projects as well the nonprofits. Google’s challenge was not about cold hard cash, although they did award sizable grants and funding. Clearly, the challenge was more than just the technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

My early experience in doing technology training was collaborating with teachers to deliver professional development on how to integrate technology. I was introduced to lesson planning from veteran teachers and have written “lesson plans” or now that I’m an adjunct professor a syllabus for everything I teach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2008

I'm going to write up a case study or maybe make a screencast or something. Not sure yet. But Audrie noted in a comment that she would like to see a concise set of bullet points. Of course, that will be included, but I will also include some stories.

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JUNE 4, 2012

To rescue other would-be brilliant posts from virtual oblivion, we thought we would share with you some of the lessons we have learned along the way. Here are seven lessons we have learned along the way: Lesson #1: Publish compelling content that will appeal to your target audience. Lesson #5: Craft those thank you notes!

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JUNE 30, 2016

to the hard-earned lessons of nonprofits and foundations. Of course we hope readers of this blog will take a look at IssueLab and ultimately make it a platform of choice for sharing research, lessons learned and other knowledge— as well as using it to gather information and plan programs.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sometimes I ask them to include their names and I do a drawing for a free book during the learning culmination exercise (see below.) After the session, I spend a few hours doing an analysis of what people wrote on the cards and use it to review with my lesson plan. 3. The Evaluation Survey. Click to Amazon. Documentation.

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MAY 27, 2005

Some post-dinner random browsing and I found this wonderful example of teachers sharing their lesson plans via flickr. Probability - 7 Originally uploaded by Misterteacher. To see the full set: [link]. My questions: Is there a way for nptech folks to share their practice working with clients via flickr? Food for thought.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Pepsi is taking a bold move. It's not spending money on Super Bowl ads for Pepsi beverages. Instead, Pepsi is using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project , a crowdsourced cause marketing effort to give away $20 million in grants to help revamp communities. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. Rebbecca shared some lessons learned by “retro-fitting&# theory to their actual practice using this framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

There is a monthly subscription fee, but you get access to step-by-methods, lesson plans, and recipes to using it in your workplace. .” It methods are based on Luma’s book and experience applying them, but are designed to be more flexible and repeatable methods to be used in the workplace. Mobilization Lab Campaign Accelerator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

.” Here’s a methodology for doing an After Action Review, but it boils down to: Capture the lesson learned (big or small). Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. Put it on a social site so all members of your team can add and access (a google document works great for this).

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APRIL 8, 2014

What’s cool is that these efforts are not mutually exclusive, as the group experiments, documents, and shares what they’ve learn, these real-time lessons are being add to the Giving Day Playbook and share beyond Knight’s grantees. New Tips From the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns by Marika Lynch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The rest of the day is spent learning about the local culture, including a walking tour of the city, visiting an historic site, and ending with a local cuisine cooking lesson. The first day day kicks with an orientation. It is great to have a day of fun before starting an intense week working on service projects. Tech2Empower Kanika Raney.

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APRIL 25, 2017

This requires designing professional development designed as “micro-lessons.” They are also learning how to access professional and personal networks to get answers to their questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Recent online social good case studies, in addition to general cause marketing examples, provide recommendations for best practices and lessons learned to inform a company’s next campaign. Further, this guide is summarized in a handy checklist to direct campaign development.

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MARCH 21, 2012

The New Media for the Networked NGO Networking Conference provided NGOs who participated in the E-Mediat program the opportunity to come together to share best practices, successes, challenges and lessons learned from their use of social media to effectively advance their organization’s work. 12 training centers have been established.

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JUNE 29, 2016

As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Three Awesome Nonprofit Storytelling Lessons by Pamela Grow. How Make-A-Wish is Telling New Stories with Audience Personas by SeeC Bridget Colling. Tips and Best Practices for Nonprofit Storytelling. The Power of Written Storytelling by Heather Ratcliff. Five Storytelling Practices at the Heart of Humans of New York by Laura Giradin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Harry is concerned about the environment and he is interested in making media. So when the good folks at Orgins Organics offered to send me one of their new re-usable canvas bag promoting eco-friendly living, I accepted. The bag, which has the phrases "I don't get wasted" and "re-user friendly" is 100% certified organic cotton.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

I think these lessons from Finland about resilience are very important for us to remember, especially in times of great stress due to what happening in our world, our country today. Perhaps it can be summed up by the sign I saw at the public Sauna , about calling it a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

I observed a lesson nutrition and healthy eating. The teacher invited the students to quiz me on what I had eaten over the last couple of days and got feedback about whether I was eating from the right food groups! Each slide, swing, or sand box had lessons in math, english, geography, or other subjects integrated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Our scope and sequence documents lay out the appropriate learning objectives and associated lesson plans, activities, videos, and more to teach skills that are developmentally appropriate. If given the opportunity, how would you teach those important lessons to our youngest fans? Check it out, and let us know what you think !

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