Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For example, transitioning from the Performance Zone to Learning Zone means moving from: performing activities and goals to improvement activities and goals. We also need to ask questions, experiment, solicit feedback, reflect on surprises or mistakes, learn from others, and habituate other Learning Zone strategies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This is something Classy can speak to personally, as we made the decision to pivot our annual conference, the Collaborative, into a fully virtual event this year. The Collaborative: Virtual Sessions drew in over 10,000 registrants and was, in many ways, just as successful as our in-person event. There’s never been a larger demand.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. While the framework allows each entity to remain true to its institutional identity, it also provides the organizational model necessary to scale impact. Communicate openly and timely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Mary Joyce leads a session on digital activism using the Story of Electronics. I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

To help nonprofits tackle this quandary, we teamed up with two other business professors , Arian Aflaki and Goker Aydin , to develop a mathematical model to guide nonprofits on how to divvy up their spending to optimize both current performance and future resilience through their spending priorities.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. This post is part of our continued efforts to share updates about internal and external efforts and outcomes to more directly invite accountability and collaboration in this work. 2021 review highlights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is why it is important for leaders to encourage staff to reflect on their workflow processes and to encourage experimentation as described below. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

Who is funding them, and what activities do donors support? We review the flurry of news stories, press releases, and announcements, and we actively search websites to identify and record grantmaking data. They want to understand, for example, how the crisis is evolving or how many people are affected.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

These tracks cover innovation, activism, comms, education and tech. The Collaborative (Classy). About : Collaborative, brought to you by Classy.org, is a two-day experience dedicated to nonprofit professionals. Join us for Collaborative: Virtual Sessions and on Classy’s virtual event platform, Classy Live. . Cause Camp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

The theme was chosen in “recognition of women, past and present, who have been active in all forms of media and storytelling including print, radio, TV, stage, screen, blogs, podcasts, and more. Donate to support the Women Business Collaborative here. Donate to the fund here.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Operations & Leadership Programs Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How 10 min read Read Now 3. Outline engaging activities and events that align with your mission but also provide opportunities for members to actively participate and contribute their skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

I’m referring to ChatGPT , a revolutionary language model developed by OpenAI that’s changing the game in every industry. It’s the second chatbot to ever pass the Turing Test , the current standard for measuring sophisticated AI models. Well, there’s a solution. It can also reject inappropriate prompts and admit its mistakes.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

Sometimes, frustrations pop up when event attendees are unsure where to go or they don’t feel that the space is reflective of how the event will be. whether or not refreshments or food will be served, décor and furniture options and preferences, whether a stage is needed, the activities to be performed, and other health and safety guidance.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

Sometimes, frustrations pop up when event attendees are unsure where to go or they don’t feel that the space is reflective of how the event will be. whether or not refreshments or food will be served, décor and furniture options and preferences, whether a stage is needed, the activities to be performed, and other health and safety guidance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it – through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. Activities are designed to support organizational wellness for greater productivity and morale boosts. Our values reflect this commitment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you also know that 49% of nonprofit employees expect cost cuts this year and 54% of nonprofit leaders have implemented changes to organizational goals and activities? . Beyond just setting funding goals for the year, you may find it valuable to leverage the SOAR Model to better plan your nonprofit’s priorities. About the Author.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

To do so, they need to be skilled collaborators, adept at bringing diverse perspectives together, and confident in their abilities to collaboratively steward supporters at every touchpoint along the ladder of engagement with other teams, departments, and senior leadership. Get Everyone Aligned Around the Culture of Philanthropy.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you also know that 49% of nonprofit employees expect cost cuts this year and 54% of nonprofit leaders have implemented changes to organizational goals and activities? . Beyond just setting funding goals for the year, you may find it valuable to leverage the SOAR Model to better plan your nonprofit’s priorities. About the Author.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Ze was really hands-on with everyone, giving hugs, taking photos, jumping in to do activities with participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some long time favorites: Nancy White is my go to guru on all things facilitation and has been for more than 10 years! Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. ” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

What if we used art to activate space in a different way? I''ve been reflecting a lot recently on our museum''s work on " social bridging "--bringing people together across cultural, ethnic, geographic, generational, and socio-economic differences--and how to take it outside. Collaborations with unorthodox community partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

It's not easy to do because it requires balancing action with reflection. This means that any one of the half million daily active users of Causes could celebrate their birthday by raising money for your organization's Cause. . This is reiterative learning. How will you support and embrace their efforts? Which is a fantastic thing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We thought so, so we put together a short list of items we felt could trigger meaningful conversations just in time for end-of-year reflection and 2019 planning. . As connections increase, it becomes essential for organizations to have a holistic view of all of their activities. Takeaway #1: Think holistically about your program .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. This was designed as a peer learning activity – so it was the participants who were mostly the presenters. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

A number of things didn’t go as planned, despite the best efforts of these four organizations, their staff, and several of our best and most active online community members. The goal was to create a unified online community for the climate movement to reflect and spur more of the movement’s offline collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Many museums, especially those of the big old box variety, need guidance and help figuring out how to build data services into their facilities, and I suspect that these kinds of considerations will become a constant feature of new construction projects once a model is developed.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. And I’ll give you about 30 seconds or so to activate. Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. .

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