Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. I'm headed to the UK in January for the Lasa conference and will be presenting with David Wilcox. I'm hoping to also meet Nick Booth and maybe Steve Bridger too!) The theme for the 2006 Circuit Rider Conference is Principles and Practice: The Middle Ground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you are not using a design where participants do the scribing, you as a facilitator may lead a conversation AND be the chart writer. Or you may have a co-facilitator where you can split the roles or invite a participant to play this role. Each of these choices has pros/cons. Small Group Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

Click here to download video. My daughter is 4 and in her pre-school is a computer. I've been lingering a little at drop off to observe how she interacts with her peers at the computer. It struck me how gender inequities start an early age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Another way to accomplish this is to assign the role of “ Rabbit Hole Monitor ” (in addition to scribe and time keeper). As soon as you notice someone with their hand up and not talking, you raise your hand. It should spread through the participants in the meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

You can plan the topics, the minutes you allocate on each topic, the speakers but also the roles for each attendee (facilitator, tech steward, note-taker, etc). It’s easy to wing meetings with no formalised planning or an agenda. According to Beth, a good meeting is based on good design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In her article Unstill Waters: The Fluid Role of Networks in Social Movements , Robin Katcher describes the several of the roles that networks can play in social movements : Building linkages and connection with a broader movement. And more practically, what is an appropriate role that we as funders should be taking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

They do this by helping people identify their interests and challenges, connecting people strategically where there’s potential for mutual benefit, and serving as a catalyst for self-organizing groups. As June points, the role is multi-faceted -and has four different roles – Connectors/Catalyst, Guardian, Coordinator, and Facilitator. (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

What role could digital medium-specific competitions or contests play in increasing demand? We saw a larger number of reports and publications out there on the topic, but most felt stale and too isolated to the nonprofit sector. Could funders prioritize storytelling as a reporting and evaluation mechanism?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Of course, social media plays a pivotal role. With over 7500 verified NGOs across India, IamHere, another app makes it possible for people to discover NGOs near them and donate. Another creative approach is #MyTuesdayPromise that encourages young people to save up small amounts to donate to a charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Defining Roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In truth, however, your ability to effectively blend the two turns on how you frame your role within your non-profit organization. When a non-profit leader frames their role as one of service, and when social media is integrated across these three levels, your donor community will enjoy a consistent and purposeful brand experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2017

The book gives us an introduction to imagination and the important role is plays in all aspects of our lives – personally, professionally and as a community. It also isn’t the same thing as creativity or innovation. Above all, imagination is about big NEW ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

What is a culture of philanthropy? It is all about how to nurture a nonprofit organizational culture that has shared responsibility for fundraising among all of its people. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2018

Facebook has been criticized for its role in spreading fake news and influencing elections. .” Some worry that this shift will create an even more pervasive “filter bubble,” where people only see content that reinforces their own opinions and views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The idea of using social media for social impact was still pretty new, though it was certainly playing a pretty big role in the Presidential election. We sensed that we needed to figure out the role that technology and social media could play in the social sector, and that we needed to help our grantee partners figure it out too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

It’s the most important volunteer role one can have at Greenpeace Germany,” says Dr. Kress. The role and ongoing coaching that accompanies it can lead to further opportunities like being hired in media relations, being accepted to a journalism program or working for a media company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. Participants had to first guess what the body gesture meant and then several folks came up an role played a real life situation. They prefer to control a situation and are focused on big-picture results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

When you create an environment where everyone can be successful—and that includes personal success, success within their job role, and contributing to the success of the enterprise—then you will have very high employee engagement. The key insight that we’ve been missing is that engagement if fundamentally a function of success, not happiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2017

Leaders and all staff for that matter have an essential role in creating a culture that encourages the best work and promotes the growth and development of individuals and teams. While organizational culture may be driven by leadership, it is often reinforced by others on staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Over the past two days at the GEO / Monitor Institute conference, “Growing social impact in a networked world,” ([link] I’ve heard several people ask some variation of the same question over and over again: What is the role of the funder in all of this? ”, and there’s an insidious version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

The past year, Twitter has been widely criticized for its role in spreading misinformation , being a Petri dish for hate speech , and how it approaches world leaders use of the platform. You will also see some of the most viscous attacks from trolls on Twitter and they are only rarely quieted with compassion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Larger nonprofits like the ACLU face the opposite challenge, as they grapple with how to absorb donations driven by political headlines and aspire to step into a larger role on behalf of under-resourced communities. Think systemically and act proximately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2013

” It was part of a presentation I gave to the board about how networks were changing the way nonprofits were doing their social change and an advanced preview of book, “The Networked Nonprofit,” the writing, of which, was supported through my role as Visiting Scholar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Most people didn’t “get to participate” in the Arab Spring because we didn’t have an effective role in regime change beyond global support and voice amplification (a crucial role, but not the change per se) and to think otherwise would be paternalistic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I believe that social networking can do better by thinking about network structures, understanding roles of people, making organizations more sociable and blending social media. What is the role of nonprofits/NGOs in contributing to more resilient networks that can scale to build a stronger civil society?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

She will continue in this role in addition to her work with the Packard Foundation. Since then, she has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society where she co-leads the Digital Civil Society Lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Share your role at your organization. Renee captured some of the letting loose on Twitter: Having fun at the Facilitation: Tools of the Trade workshop. Exponent14 pic.twitter.com/drvnHLv5ks — Renee Steffen (@renee_steffen) October 31, 2014. Standard intros: Say your name. Share where you’re from. Share why you’re here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The Foundation recognized that a big opportunity exists between the intersection of story and technology, and launched a research project to consider the role that digital technology can play in elevating the practice of storytelling as a means to improve the well-being of the poor and vulnerable around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Today, I’m doing my best to “paying it forward” as a social sector consultant, and in this role, I’m learning that consultants can play an important role as guiders and supporters to changemakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

What role(s) might a funder play in initiating and implementing a peer learning group? What role would you play in starting and running a peer learning group? When should you (and when shouldn’t you) consider starting a peer learning group? How can insight generated by the learning group be made more broadly available?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Because people can’t see body cues or the interactions between participants, the facilitator in a virtual meeting plays a forceful role, both making sure that people don’t talk over one another and also ensuring that everyone has a chance to speak. Assign people roles. Special Tips for Combined In-Person/Virtual Meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Give each bucket a role and goal so that they know how and when to help. Some people can take on multiple roles if they’re high up on the engagement ladder. On average, we see about 50% of crowdfunding campaign funds come in this way. Donors – People that will contribute to your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

” But he emphasized that Big Data has a role in public good, but we need a way to convert it into useful data. Mayur Patel, Knight Foundation Patel raised some great questions: What is the role of philanthropy – how can it guide scaffolding? How do we use private resources for advancing public good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Role Playing Simulation For Making ROI Argument: Many nonprofits are often faced with the question, “What the value of social media&# from senior management. Next, we did a role-play. I had a brave volunteer from the audience and we did a role play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2012

According to TechCrunch, Ali has also played a role in a past campaign in the country to keep Facebook from getting banned. The coverage in TechCrunch came about when activists in Pakistan wrote to major social media sites about the block. Waqas Ali , who is Lahore, sent TechCrunch a screenshot of the blocked Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As part of my role as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I had an opportunity to coach Independent Sector on their conference social media integration. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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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. . Preamble: reflection on the role of tech steward. I'm also looking at this role in the context of working wikily. .

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