Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Whether you are wondering how to build your own community campaigns, how to use existing community content and amplify the messages coming through, or what platforms to use for collaboration with your members, we ask you to bring your questions and start a new conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

But they are so busy living in that mentality of scarcity and competition, that they can’t do that kind of collaboration. collaboratively developed software, and, really, collaborations of all sorts are limited by this mentality. So it doesn’t happen. This reminds me of a true story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller. Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses. Make sure that your software's private messages facilitate a private response within the community itself. As silly as this sound, these messages are very effective at fostering community participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. What Happened on Give Local America Day? It requires a networked approach to Giving Days. What do you think? … Read More

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. 2009 5K Run. My second blog dealt with setting up the chart of accounts in a nonprofit environment. Elder Day Care.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

to developing recommendations collaboratively. EPA has also apparently trained 60 people to be trainers in online collaboration. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. to information exchange. to agreements. to stakeholder action.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. This year, we took a different approach.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It’s timely because integrating environmental factors into decision-making is likely to become a key issue in 2009 for businesses and governments. The “ Green Enterprise Unconference ” we’re hosting on December 3rd is looking extremely timely and interesting. See a fuller listing of attendee titles and organizations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Started in 2009 in Florida, Clean the World Foundation began as a global humanitarian organization registered as a 501(c)(3). However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds. They also facilitate the cross-sector collaboration of nonprofits, governmental agencies, and corporations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2012

Collaboration among nonprofit organizations is near to becoming a necessity. 3 However, inter-organizational collaboration is not a mere exercise in sustainability. 3 However, inter-organizational collaboration is not a mere exercise in sustainability. It is not easy to develop and preserve trust among collaborative partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

Collaboration with the Organization's Cause would be a good thing I'd like to see how Causes might facilitate more collaboration with the organization's Cause administrator to leverage some of the other new fundraising features on the Causes application. Thanks to Lamarguerite for this important reminder.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

We believe that, like the soup kitchen, our overall impact could be strengthened through a better understanding of who we serve individually and collectively, and what that may imply about how we can better collaborate to meet the needs of those we serve. Of course, collaboration is tough work. Did we succeed?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

This week, I met New York choreographer Dean Moss and learned about his fascinating contemporary dance piece Kisaeng Becomes You (2009). Particularly in highly facilitated situations, there are wonderful opportunities to use "unsafe" participation as a way to push art and audience experience to a whole new level. Sound scary?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. What are the best ways to cultivate relationships with free agent fundraisers and collaborate on fundraisers with them?

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

To help further advance the social sector, we also offer an immersive experience called the Collaborative , which is our annual nonprofit conference designed exclusively to help nonprofit organizations gain insights, strategies, and inspiration to elevate their impact. Register Now for the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. I'm helping plan next year's NAME/AAM retreat on creativity and collaboration , and those topics are certainly the driving force for the content of the experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan. ” Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. I think that government really should facilitate an environment that nurtures business development, and then get out of the way. It's really creating that voice, and I think we can facilitate that. They want to do good.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. He has also put together a team of advisers including Jeffrey David Sachs , Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO of the Acumen Fund , and Linda Rottenberg is CEO and Co-founder of Endeavor.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NOS session is a chance for anyone interested in open data and APIs to connect and collaborate. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Thursday, April 8, 2010.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. I fell in love with it all the way back in 2009. If you don’t know Kishshana, you got to check her out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s a particularly interesting project, because it has a definite political purpose: Designed for social movements working for social justice, Crabgrass will consist of tools which allow people to connect, collaborate, and organize in new ways and with increased efficiency. 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Two representatives from each of the 15 Featured Projects will be invited to present their ideas in person at N2Y4, May 26-27, 2009 and compete for cash prizes.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

It's a great example of cause marketing, of online collaboration, of social entrepreneurship, and online innovation. Some of what I found interesting about the project: -They designed and have run it as a collaborative *online* effort with their cardholder members. modify to better meet a need or to compliment another effort.).

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