NetWits

DECEMBER 6, 2010

At the beginning of 2010 they no longer needed volunteers for that task because of staff efficiencies – which was great news! Allow your volunteers to network with one another online to keep them engaged and facilitate a community. But as a volunteer I was left wondering what I would do now to help this organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US.

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Learning Pakistan Facilitation Haiti 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Yesterday afternoon during the ForakerGroup 2010 Nonprofit Leadership Summit, I experienced my first Alaskan earthquake (4.9). I was scared – the floor swayed and I felt like I was on boat. Earthquake. All in all – an exciting day in Alaska!

Alaska 96

Alaska Cancer Facilitation Leadership 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2013

This is a continuation of my work with TBA over the past 3-4 years. The first year I experimented with a peer design that included face-to-face workshops, action learning projects, and monthly calls back in 2010 called ArtsLab. The first phase was an intensive “ Digi-Strat ” boot camp last month.

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Classes San Francisco Arts Training 93

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated. We just saw this. percent in 2009.

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Lesson Marketing Impact Giving 52

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

" E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis … – "The truth is that everyone is, indeed, a community facilitator / manager nowadays, as you saw in a recent blog entry where I referenced Gautam’s comments along these very same lines. than ever before.

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Web Offline Bookmarking Facilitation 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I had the opportunity to facilitate 3 world café sessions on this topic this morning at the GEO: Growing Social Impact in a Networked World funder conference. How can networks facilitate that? by Robin Katcher, Management Assistance Group Summer 2010 Nonprofit Quarterly. How do networks evolve into movements?

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Network Social Facilitation Roles 92

The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 16, 2021

He became the youngest and first openly gay executive director of the Asian Pacifical American Labor Alliance in 2010. They can also help facilitate connections to others in the industry and help you widen your professional network. In the nonprofit sector, we can look to 24-year-old Gregory Cendana.

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Mentoring Nonprofit Leadership Skills 98

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Lesson 82

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. 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. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? In 2010, I expect this to become more explicit, especially with new hires.

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Social Media Question Community Media 78

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. Affordable Hous. & Cmty.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

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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Platform Blackboard Learning Open Source 100

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Having these conversations is not something America does well, but nonprofits are the perfect neutral player to facilitate them. Nonprofit organizations should use expertise and a neutral position in the community to help marginalized people tell their stories, facilitate tough conversations and focus the national dialogue.

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Story Storytelling Oregon Nonprofit 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the past four years, I’ve designed and facilitated panels on social media and nonprofit topics that were fun learning experiences and well documented. In 2008, we wore funny hats to go with the theme of our panel.

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Comment Chad ROI Texas 101

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

February 12, 2010, and promises to be “more than just a conference on the next generation web.&# Plus, if you register soon you can get a 20% discount! NonProfit 2.0 Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C., Simply use “HolidayDiscount&# when you register for the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference here. About Nonprofit 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2012

Solid Women ”, winner of Best Medium Organization, presents a powerful, affirming story of 5 women succeeding in rebuilding their community after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, through the microloans facilitated through Fonkoze.

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Conference Technology NTC Minneapolis 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

Of interest, was an workshop that was designed to begin setting the standards in social media measurement co-facilitated by KD Paine, an expert in communications and social media measurement. (KD Paine and [.] 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Measure Social Media Media Metrics 115

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2011

As a member of the board of YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network) Phoenix, I have been fortunate to cross paths with some extraordinary emerging leaders, facilitators, mentors, and nonprofit sector thought leaders.

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Phoenix Work Music Museum 95

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.

Bhutan 100

Bhutan Learning Open Source Open 100

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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AJAX Application Open Source Plugin 134

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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Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Longtime readers know that I'm a big fan of Dining for Women , an organization that facilitates "potlucks for a purpose." I interviewed Marsha for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 and again in 2010 , and have mentioned Dining for Women's work many times here on Have Fun, Do Good.

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Los Angeles News Chapter Podcast 52

Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2010

But seriously, expert facilitation and the awesome landscape of Hollyhock make for a very intimate and emotional gathering – a key point of the entire exercise. For starters, they have a much celebrated hot tub and lots of wine and beer! Mornings start with mediation and Yoga with colleagues (AWKWARD!)

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Web Change Florida Reflection 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated. .” This isn’t the first time the nonprofit community has been screwed by using free tools own by corporations.

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Google Iran Reflection Feeds 100

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Guidelines Facilitation Hosting Twitter 60

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

– "The goal of the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS) project is to turn qualitative case studies of digital activism around the world into a non-proprietary quantitative machine-readable data set in spreadsheet form that will facilitate the work of scholars in this new field."

Web 114

Web Bookmarking Case Study Map 114

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. Obviously lots to talk about and we are really excited to facilitate the game in more contexts and with other groups!

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Game Collaboration Social Facilitation 100

Care2

MAY 9, 2011

Did you know that in 2010 volunteerism increased by 11%, according to a study by Cone ? Volunteers also reported giving close to $2,600 as compared to non-volunteers who gave just $230, according to study by VolunteerMatch. Furthermore, 67% of those who volunteer say they donate money to the same organizations where they volunteer.

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Websites United States API Volunteer 76

Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2012

On May 24, I had the pleasure of facilitating our first webinar in our Microsoft Tips and Tricks Series, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2010 Course. You can now view the recording of this webinar. Video demo of Broadcast Slideshow. Office Web Apps Home Page.

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PowerPoint Create Sharepoint Broadcast 52

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This blog post was authored by Dawn Krause, who will be facilitating this week's webinar. Direct Relief International was involved in the Haitian earthquake in 2010 and the Japan earthquake in 2011, providing aid to thousands. Read more and register today !

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Map Impact Free Japan 55

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Outside of NetSquared, I am a trainer, blogger and facilitator as well as the co-author of Social by Social: a practical guide to using technology for social impact.

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India Network Netsquared Offline 126

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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Open Source Captivate Collaboration Technorati 100

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.

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Consultant Life Technology Open Source 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. We decided to create an organization to facilitate those activities." Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter? FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay.

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Twitter Fundraising Ratio Social Network 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This ranges from online discussion of the issue to hosting an Emergency Social Data Summit – or #crisisdata on Twitter on Thursday August 12, 2010, in Washington, D.C., This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees.

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Facebook Haiti Chile Disaster 105