Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's why Nancy White's post on most useful synchronous online facilitation practices really caught my eye. Nancy takes us through a gradient of modalities and technologies for synchronous meetings. Nancy points to a few good resources on the topic of synchronous online facilitation techniques that I need to explore.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this model, the digital team is spread across different departments – grassroots, IT, fundraising, communications, marketing, etc, but all digital digital staffers in these departments are connected to and supported by a digital experience team that helps direct the strategic goals and synchronizes campaigns.

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NewsCloud and other thoughts about collaborative knowledge sharing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Del.icio.us: The site offers "two-way synchronization" with Del.icio.us. I love the "two-way synchronization" and makes say "gee whiz" at the collaboration community filtering going on and makes me wonder about how and where the human editing or newsmastering comes into play.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

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Facebook groups mostly function asynchronously, but a synchronous activity now and again can really rally the troops. Think about allowing others to add their own options to the poll – when is it appropriate, and when is it unnecessary or confusing. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both!

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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And the critical thing that a conductor does is synchronize the orchestra because the complexity of self-synchronization is hard at that scale. Shirky adds to this point: There is an Israeli conductor, Itay Talgam , who gives a talk on leadership. styles using orchestra conductors as the example.

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How Nonprofit Leaders Create An Authentic Personal Brand on Intsagram

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This is a brilliant example of how a nonprofit leader has aligned and synchronized their personal brand with their nonprofit’s brand. Here is a before/after photo of his dog , after getting groomed. He quips that the dog could attend the Met’s Costume Ball, but unfortunately it is sold out.

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Guest Post by Laura Norvig: Friendfeed As Nonprofit Technology Water Cooler

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Synchronous events there include the monthly #4change conversations. (Just kidding, and these are only seven of about 20 reasons I love Friendfeed). I know that there are many different venues where great conversations about nonprofits using social media take place. One of those venues is Twitter.