Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 2009, the “Social Media ROI Poetry Slam” SXSW lead to a book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” The thesis: For nonprofit organizations there are two key processes that lead to social change: To become networked, and to use measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

Geoff has moved on to working on exciting projects , including a book and Kami will continue the brand Zoetica working on strategy projects such as this important effort to keep.NGO domain in the hands of nonprofits. Starting Zoetica came on the heels of one of the most dramatic changes I made in my life in recent years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” The session was facilitated by Susan Feeney, Partner at GMMB , and explored the range of new media models and venture journalism experiments. “As million in 2009 to $687.6 and James L.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In addition, according to Eisner (2009), nonprofit leaders are not taking the time to develop or support volunteer talent adequately, resulting in a weak or bland experience that leads to an unmotivated volunteer who has little reason to return. 2009) The new volunteer workforce, Stanford, Social, Innovation Review Retrieved from [link].

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

percent in 2009. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated. And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels.

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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 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. It doesn’t do more than that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

Twestival Local aims to support not-for-profit organizations through global events on 10-13 September 2009. It is up to each city team to facilitate nominations and the selection process using the Twestival guidelines. Twestival Local puts the spotlight on hundreds of causes around the world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

I'm also looking forward to the rest of the day as a participant and not just a facilitator. " Look beyond the label - Refugee week 2009 - Interested in light-weight online campaigns that can really get people's attention and start conversations? If you are going to be in London July 6 - check this out!

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Nonprofit organizations can be mindful of additional barriers and identify trusted facilitators to bridge gaps. 2009, May 1). Sources: Atlee, T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In 2009, the “Social Media ROI Poetry Slam” SXSW lead to a book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” This workshop will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. PadillaCRT has led our earned media strategies since we launched GiveMN in 2009. For us, our offline activities are as important as online efforts. They are amazing partners who understand our business.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Whether it is by connecting individuals, organizations, campaigns, or possibilities, Amy hopes to facilitate the nonprofit technology sector transtioning into a movement-based force for positive change. She is also a blogger, facilitator, and trainer, having worked with groups and spoken at events in the US, UK, and around the world.

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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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

I was brought on board to help with the 2009 Nonprofit Technology conference when I returned to Portland after dropping out of a graduate program that wasn't a good fit and came at the wrong time. I ended up at NTEN by accident. NTEN turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those. 3 Beth 03.19.07

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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

MARCH 31, 2014

Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. Zynga.org ( [link] ) was created with the mission to use games to help those in need. Around Gender. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Let’s take an example : Recently, I had the opportunity to connect with some Ashoka Fellows from around the world to help train them on the uses and applications of social technologies in their social impact work. One of the participants was Pratima from Shelter Associates in Pune, India. Find out more about the conference here.

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Here's the bare bones version of what you'll get: A 2-day online conference, taking place September 16-17, 2009. veritable Who's Who of nonprofit tech speakers and facilitators. Keynotes from Ami Dar of. Idealist.org and Marnie Webb of. TechSoup Global. 15 live webcast sessions on need-to-know topics. Mission ($40 value.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network.

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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? What do you think? What Happened on Give Local America Day? … Read More

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Adding a new printer is facilitated by a few different things hplip, cups, ghostscript, and gutenprint/gimpprint. Wireless worked for me straight after install. DVD’s worked for me as well (though Windows doesn’t play DVD’s right after install). You will need all of them because of the varying ways in which printers operate.

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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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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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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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. For more information about nonprofits, blogs and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) check out Organic Non-Profit SEO , The Nonprofit SEO Guide , Blogs and Search Engine Optimization , and 2009 NTC Preview: Kevin Lee on Search Engine Optimization 5.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

Strong ties are needed to facilitate the highest flow of information between the different parts of the organization, keeping the employees in alignment with one another and the cause. Weak ties are needed in an organization to ensure the passage of new information, which keeps an organization filled with new ideas. Sources: 1.

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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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