Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

There is a balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. It's how you use the conversation to generate, aggregate, and facilitate social content. Tags: wearemedia. I've been thinking about this intersection of content that the organization creates and content that is created by the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

If crowds can't be trained to appear like the cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland when needed, can they be facilitated? Was that crowd trained, facilitated, or orchestrated? Tags: crowdsourcing. Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ".

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JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? tagging capabilities to keep things organized. Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

One question I'm wondering myself - what does effective wiki facilitation really look like - literally. I know there are many wiki patterns - how they evolve, are they are facilitated, what works, what doesn't -- just read Stewart Mader's book. I didn't facilitate it, but I participated. Leave a comment and point to them.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

The next week at the University of Washington (hosted by CHANGE , a lively cross-disciplinary group working on ICT for development), we facilitated a discussion among Seattle-based groups involved with global health data collection, management, and dissemination. Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations. Let me know.

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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." How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy. This enables us to have impact, scale and sustainability. “ Unleashing Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

This was all about early aggregation! Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland. I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc. Note the blink tag! I also discovered the gopher! I was a self-described gopher mistress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Crowdsourcing collective wisdom refers to the aggregation of anonymously produced data from groups of independent, diverse and decentralized people (crowds). A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. It's how you use the conversation to generate, aggregate, and facilitate social content. Tags: movement building. Duct Tape Marketing blog has an interesting post called " Engaging Content Creates Engagement " which gets at connection.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

aggregation without losing an adequate degree of quality)? What are the technical tools (databases, applications, platforms) that would help facilitate the work. Tags: Global Health. Some of the key issues: how to get researchers, institutions, and governments to share and collaborate on their work. Seattle Children's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. Tags: Training Design. Hashtag Stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. Tags: movement building. Movements involve people, not Marketing, PR, Comms, Public Affairs, etc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

How can those notes best be aggregated in one place to be shared with all participants and perhaps with those who didn't attend the event? This is particularly useful if there is a great volume material that has been tagged and could benefit from a more organized presentation than a "messy" tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. What are the organizational change issues necessary for implementing a successful social media strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. There is a blogging community tool available on the site and people are registering and setting up blogs.

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JULY 23, 2009

Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. We should also be getting a new website to showcase our work very soon. . Now that the Challenge is over, what are your big milestones and goals? About NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. I agree with her points: Causes facilitates the spread of your organization's message. Tags: facebook. Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. It doesn't work that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

(Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I like how it aggregate the social ant trails of the community. I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants). Tags: online communities technology training training materials. However, the platform offers some excellent social features. It isn't a walled garden. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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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 also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Tags: goals.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In their eyes, there are four main goals that grantmakers can hope to accomplish: Facilitate communication among grantees – enable them to connect before and after in-person gatherings (see Purpose Prize Innovation Network ) and promote tagging on sites like Flickr as an information sharing tool.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

In their eyes, there are four main goals that grantmakers can hope to accomplish: Facilitate communication among grantees – enable them to connect before and after in-person gatherings (see Purpose Prize Innovation Network ) and promote tagging on sites like Flickr as an information sharing tool.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. I want to aggregate all the data, synthesize it and share it. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. This is something I am obsessively curious about. So how about it? Ready for a stranger April?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Seems like facilitative leadership is key. Resources Mashable, Twestival Social Media for Social Change Other links aggregated on my original post, " Look Out, Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter ". Tags: social media micro-philthanthropy fundraising2.0 freeagent twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine. How did you discover the nptech tag ? It's such a huge field, we'll have to see how helpful such a broad tag ends up being. Probably through the Delicious feed, probably via Technorati Tag search.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Using social software mechanisms allows people to browse and aggregate content in a way that is very fluid and flexible, but it is also critical that they are allowed to collect the object itself. As you’ve said, we often have projects where users can create content without letting them understand how the content is chosen or aggregated.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. At level two, the visitor has some interactive experience (pushing buttons, etc.) with the issue. At level five, the visitors start discussing the issue together.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Processing a credit card transaction or facilitating a financial transaction will always have a cost. Couldn't someone build a NPO aggregator "clearing house" that did all of the dirty work Apple doesn't want to get involved in? The aggregator itself could be an app for the Apple platform. Am I missing anything here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. That takes some of the duplicates out of the tag stream. What you loose is the original source - who tagged it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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