Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

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. I asked the "very comfortable" people the following question: What was your ah ha moment with social media, when you understood its power and benefit to your movement/network? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As an early adopter, I remember switching, despite how strange it felt. Yet, at the time, people were questioning “How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus?&#. In many cases, the slow to change eventually adopt or they no longer remain relevant to their constituents, donors, or loose their edge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Adopting a networked mindset is believing in abundance rather than scarcity. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Integrating Network Mindset. 3. Where are the gaps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. This is why gamification in e-Learning is fast emerging as an effective technique to engage learners. Mobile learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

" She recaps what tools and techniques she has explored in order to discover how best to integrate all this activity into one's online publishing and online presence. It's inspired me to go back and reflect on how I'm (not too successfully at times) integrating all these techniques into my online publishing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” ” I often used [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. The moderator asks a somewhat controversial question and directs participants to take a stand on the spectrum. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Social Media Training Train Media 95

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Unfortunately, I cannot answer this question for you. Is there a hot new social platform that your entire workforce is adopting? Consistency is key in fostering user adoption, as well as choosing elements that are not too far displaced from methods your workforce is already familiar with. Fortunately, it is entirely answerable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Listening for Nonprofits in a Digital World View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Are you impulse adopting tools? Use Time Management Techniques. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n rachelannyes #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We reconnected over lunch and quickly realized we had a lot in common, namely questioning what being “always on” and connected to technology was doing to our relationships, our bodies, our spirits, and our ability to concentrate on our work. Stress reduction techniques. Ways to encourage individual and group reflection and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). We discussed some of the social media monitoring tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

We discussed ways to initiate organizational change to be more open to social media adoption in the context of training and coaching. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#. We also covered some of the basic techniques for listening and engaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I'm sort of foggy on all the questions - due to my tired state, but the first set of opinion statements was "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for practical reasons" and "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for philosophical reasons." What are the techniques for conversational weaving?

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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. We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. You need to visit your page every day - especially if your engagement strategy is working and your fans are posting content, questions, or responses. For example, questions work, particularly those that accompany a link to a good post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I’ve asked this question before, but this is the first time I had so many stories that it was hard to narrow it down to a few. The conference hashtag #watech4good was used to encourage people both in the room and not in the room to Tweet – and ask questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? Some places I want to go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Back in the 1990s, the overload was coming from email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation. Performance ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The question is "When is video a good. ForumOne Communications blog answers the question " How do you engage 5% of your audience that are most important to you ?" Some reflections about the newest web2.0 isn't as negative as it sounds. content will be better when it's delivered in other, more appropriate.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Non-game social platforms like museums should use game design techniques to make these institutions more successful at supporting user happiness. This is not an argument that is specific to museums. What about learning?"

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Museum Game Structure South America 21

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attendees will enjoy themed trivia questions, compete for prizes, and contribute to your cause while having a blast. Pet Adoption Event Obviously, pet adoption events make perfect sense for animal shelters and other animal welfare-focused groups. Celebrate the joys of gardening and sustainable living.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. But what if you asked questions instead?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops. Each speaker did an excellent job answering the question, “ What does the future of social look like? marniethedog , a 12 year old senior dog who was adopted, but diagnosed with an illness that made her head tilt.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately. at 11:23 pm Wow, Michelle, those are *exactly* the questions that I want schools to start asking themselves. at 8:45 am Yes, totally – I think that schools have been on that same track, and not asking themselves the same questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

Note From Beth: Just before I left for Rwanda, I caught some interesting discussion threads about organizational adoption of networked ways of working on Twitter coming from the #COFLA hashtag as a result of the Council on Foundations gathering in Florida. These techniques could be used to. Here’s a summary of the discussion.

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