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. Techniques for More Engagement.

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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

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation? How do you facilitate cross-blog conversation ? How do you facilitate conversation in the comments ? What is your technique for responding to comments? Reply to every (rational) question.

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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? What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? What are the techniques for "listening'? How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. The Tactical and Practical.

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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? What do you think are some of the evolving best practices and techniques using these tools? I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop.

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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 believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

We used various techniques like rotating subject lines for the letter to Congress, rotating a carousel of letters, and not naming our organization in the text of the letter. Turns out that's not necessarily a good investment of time. The report also calls for a new model of constituent correspondence management on the Hill.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 28, 2023

It can be difficult to find new donors when your fundraising technique limits you to your local area. On the other hand, it might take you an hour to aggregate your fundraising data into an easy-to-visualize format, only to find that the statistics are now outdated due to an influx of new donations. Limited pool of donors.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So however it makes sense to move information within your organization, that’s how I would take your input in and aggregate it. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

Professionals aggregate content for maximum findability. Interiors are designed to facilitate diverse use of the content. This technique isn't exclusive to libraries. You can search in multiple ways, both directly (computers), and by wandering the aggregated shelves. Everything is available. Put on some headphones.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder.

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