Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

My biggest problem as a facilitator was transitioning from the share pair back to full group. For those organizations in a position to talent scout for social media expertise, here's some good advice from David Armano and what should go in a job description. It helps people process what they are learning. I had been using chimes.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. The Governing Board took the Advisory Board’s advice to heart and created a series of achievable goals rather than a hard deadline. Write down how you envision the Advisory Board operating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

I keep thinking of the advice offered by Charlene Li on whether investing in social media at some level is a yes or not question. This makes me think about the creative opportunities for learning and facilitating learning at conference with people in the room and remotely. Insight and engagement are not as valued by some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

After facilitating a panel at the Innogive Conference on integrating mobile into multi-channel nonprofit campaigns , I headed to a special event hosted by Google to celebrate the launch of Google for Nonprofits. The demo also showed a new 3D map feature and how you can take a photo and have it return google search results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk. ” At the end of the day, I look at it, reflect on what I did – and plan for tomorrow. The advice is not to go online or check email until you get your three things done, but that is very hard for me – given so much of my work is online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

He has some terrific advice about how to apply visual thinking to your data visualization and to get insights. But first, he simplifies what visual thinking is: Look, See, Imagine, and Show. Map the data. From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. Look: What is out there? The steps are: Collect your data. Draw a conclusion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. The type of tie depicted in a social network map depends on a study's content and purpose (Knoke and Yang, 2008) [3].

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. An emcee can also help your nonprofit facilitate smoother transitions with the technology, as that person can remind your audience about important features for engaging during the sessions.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Visualize On Paper: Over the past 10 months, I've made a return to paper and markers and using mind maps or visualization techniques to reflect, and plan my week or day. It's why I felt the need to dive into visual facilitation and thinking techniques as a way to cope with getting "content fried.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Early on in the pandemic, we were keeping an eye on our customers and making sure that we were there and providing advice and support. It’s easy to set up mappings for everything from donations and event registrations to auctions and text fundraising. B: I always go back to 2020, it was such a challenging year for a lot of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

This social capital encourages employees to turn to colleagues to get useful assistance or advice about future initiatives. Knowledge mapping: By working closely together, colleagues build an understanding of each person’s particular knowledge and skills. What if we incentivised time spent in reflection and with each other?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I was most interested in Part 2 (pages 17-21) because I think the advice is applicable to organizations beyond those managing head start programs. It maps out stages of change, but also recognizes that organizations may be in different stages at the same time: Dormant: At this stage, the organization does not know where to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Visit the United Way's LIVE UNITED ™ site and run your mouse over the map. According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." Wondering where he got that awesome T-shirt?

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2009

What that is, I think, is collaboration and evaluation, facilitated by free-moving data. In the cloud, we can share client service data with other organizations and map it against the need demonstrated by census data. Judi's really smart advice? You've noticed this, I'm sure. Pop your gmail to Outlook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? However, we may be thinking of about it slightly different - a facilitative curator versus community driven curation.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. Developing a clear map for the future now can help you create tangible benchmarks to achieve long-term goals. Setting short- and long-term goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. Stated another way, organize and simplify.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s also a chance to adjust processes, staff skill sets, and align with the future road maps of your technology partners. IT has become more than a facilitator; It is a collaborator in our ability to bring ideas to life. The value is in the journey. We uncover hidden problems and opportunities.” Kevin is right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Amy Gahran's Advice on Using Flickr Photos As Source Material. It isn??????t t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see. More Advanced Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. So what I do is map out what my idea is in a detailed yet straightforward way and emphasize the benefits. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. " I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. What's your strategy map? " I wonder what advice or what you need to communicate so you don't encounter resistance to experimentation. What's the outcome? What's the key metric?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

I have championed the recent Oakland Food Policy Assessment introduced by some amazing grad students at Cal, which lays out a very clear, thorough, and utterly achievable road map for food security in Oakland. Its general premise is to arrive at a point where 30% of Oakland's consumed agricultural products are grown locally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Carlos Miranda, the host, did a great job facilitating and designing the sessions. Here’s a few notes. Before the conference, I facilitated several workshops for nonprofit CEOs and communications or fundraising directors at JustGiving headquarters and hosted by Social Misfits Media. Workshop/Training Reflections.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. The number of people who have come to me for spot coaching, so, you know, Steven, I’ve done some one-off, two-off sessions where folks who needed advice or they needed to make a career move.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. Resource mapping, who’s already here? Good advice to always go back to those things, right? That was one really fun example. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Finally, here's a screencast on strategic blog commenting, although a lot of the advice is mostly for those who already have a blog, much can be learned. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics. Discover Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

Several of the newest social platforms create “interest graphs” a map for navigating to subjects and people of interest. The Interest graph is a superset of the social graph, a people map. Content Curators are doing this and more platforms will facilitate curation. Pinterest is one of them.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Looking at the board, I saw several specific, unique suggestions like: Use Google Maps to find a park(s) along the way. You get the sense reading the question that someone needs your advice, and if you've figured something out that works for you and your child, you want to share. A short break to run/swing/etc. is good for all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

There are social network applications designed to facilitate free agent fundraisers, for example Facebook Causes Birthday Campaign and some of the earlier experiments over at Social Actions. Allison Fine offers some more advice: is to go back to basics: building strong relationships with your supporters.

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