Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other! I didn’t get a chance to attend many sessions because I was in Atlanta a short-term, but I am grateful for the wiki journal report by Kathy Reich from the Packard Foundation her key takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. I applied the lessons learned from that to the challenge was scaling this for 300 people from different organizations in a way that helped experience a strategy brainstorm and help them make choices about the tool/tactical sessions later in the day. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). The Challenge of Transfer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

It's talking about the adoption of social media tools in spying organizations, but a lot of points are apply to nonprofit adoption The need to focus on the challenges posed by your organizational culture even more than the technologies to make them work for you. This caught my eye. For the intelligence agencies to benefit from ???social

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

The organization's goal is to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers, in order to advance effective social justice philanthropy. I used the wiki a flip chart - so the leave behind is the slide deck, notes, and a few resources. The organization's goal is to strengthen the next. I feel really inspired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I just got back from doing a plenary session at the Arts Summit organized by the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations. You can find the slides and resources at my Arts and Social Media wiki. It's gathering of arts leader from throughout New York State. It gets a good laugh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . The Goldmine Project is sharing a, well, goldmine of knowledge around what makes for a successful nonprofit consultant and organization relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Trainer Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Make a slide at the end with contact information, wiki address, etc. Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate. I wanted to write some reflections about what worked and what could have been improved with the Social Media Game.  I set up a wiki. tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

The hypothetical organization was part of a network and working on Earth Worm Sustainability. Some design learnings: Program staff have a harder time coming up with an objective than technical or communications people. The report outs from the small group had some terrific strategy ideas and approaches. The game wiki is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. I was also able to share the workshop wiki. We asked this question: Social media is a fad and a waste of time for nonprofit organizations Social media can enhance fundraising for NGOs. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). The also had room divider screens that could be used as extra wall space to hang student work for a poster session or students could use to work on project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. But that was last month's thinking, the Webinar gave me a chance to reflect and incorporate new learnings, particularly with some of the professional tools. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

He is describing what an organization with a " learning organization " culture does and applying it to social media. Nonetheless, the reflection questions are very valuable and important to incorporate in your strategy planning and reflection process. The process is: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. Technology for Communities project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Nonprofits aren’t created the same; they can sometimes reflect the communities they serve and empower, facing similar resource and capacity challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). It is also important to target the right level of authority. Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations. Here's a few reflections from people in the room. You're not going to have perfection when it is a experiment! Based on the TechSoup Second Life Group stats).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). Prizes will offered too!) How to identify and do more case studies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Bahia Ramos wrote this post as part of a learning culmination process where we reflected on the design and what was learned as we moved into another round of giving days. To complement the Playbook, we organized a Peer Learning Exchange where participants could gather, share ideas and ask questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

In 2007, I was a "leader" in a program called " Shadow the Leader " where I had an opportunity to reflect with colleagues and peers on the challenges and learnings from leading a tagging community. Everytime I connect with colleagues at Cpsquared, it is an opportunity for reflection. Preamble: reflection on the role of tech steward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

I asked people to share a couple sentences about their experience from your nonprofit organization, or point to an excellent resource and add a sentence to describe it. Twenty people made contributions - although 7 contributions were made by "guests" - people who didn't register for the wiki. Reflections and questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

I'd just finished blogging about the book giveaway (reading Amy Sample Ward 's reflection about it). We offered free copies of Media Rules by Brian Reich and Dan Solomon to generate participation on the wiki for the NTEN WeAreMedia Project. KISMET - Andrew wrote the introduction!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. I discovered this post from Alec Couros , reflecting on his recent presentation in a wiki for emerging technology. I opted for the wiki-presentation method. I thought for a bit about just going in and editing their wiki for my presentation. m sure they wouldn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. Should Your Organization Embrace Social Media or Not? ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

We created a worksheet with more detailed questions adapted and remixed from CCTV's wiki. These steps are about figuring out who in organization is going to have the conversations. What I like best about this section is that the focus isn't on numbers only - these are reflective questions related to learning. Step 2: Prepare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Think about some of the changes reflected by this typewriter, manufactured by E. The adoption of the typewriter, at just the same time that women began to work in offices, reflected changes in women's roles, new ideas about the organization of work, and the rapidly growing corporations of the day. projects in organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Stated another way, organize and simplify. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. The key to networks is connections and reciprocity.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

What’s important to note here is that unlike wiki or websites, the direct forms of content creation, with Ushahidi citizens only needed to know the number to which they send reports from their phone. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map.

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