Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you? I look for patterns.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2017

I think we have all come to realize that just adding a minority seat to your board of directors, or consciously making an attempt to fill that open position with someone from a different cultural background, simply isn’t enough. Have an open door policy, and really mean it. Demonstrating Inclusion. Invest in diversity training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I wanted to capture some reflections around my burning question: How do you think about using social media effectively along the continuum of open/closed networks? Charlene Li talks about this with a frame of " open leadership." She advises asking 'How open do you want to be?". And, when does that line move or creep?

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Media Cause

AUGUST 31, 2022

Seasonal Reasons – Shorter days, colder weather, and the year coming to a close present a seasonal cue for less activity, a time for reflection, and positive changes we want to see in our futures. The calendar does much of the heavy lifting for you, and wallets are broadly open. Psychological Reasons – It feels good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters. ” questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. Penguin Days. What are the best practices?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2016

In “Moving Beyond a Culture of Compliance to a Culture of Continuous Improvement,” a resource guide for Head Start Programs, we describe several key indicators, including curiosity, reflection, tolerance of failure and vulnerability, and use of feedback. They use what others might deem failures as an opportunity for learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

where he discussed the crossroads of movements and campaigns and the need for an open culture. After this incident, we started to reflect on how our organization can move beyond its greatest fear of losing control and embrace social media? The post and ideas resonated with Holly Hight, a field organizer for Bread for the World.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

Here in Santa Cruz, my museum has embarked on a major project to redevelop the plaza outside our doors into a vibrant, cultural hub for downtown, and we are trying to make the development process as open and useful as possible. A key aspect of this rung is the degree to which children are engaged in critical reflection.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

They are open to possibilities. If she is not willing or able to articulate a potential change, it’s not a prototype—it’s just a model of a foregone conclusion. Or alternatively, what kind of culture are you trying to build, and what indicators reflect that? Innovators and change-makers may not be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. This voice, articulated through social media, can be extremely powerful and can force individuals, companies and communities to change the way they behave. The big question - as applied to nonprofits.

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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. . Have you taken the time to clearly articulate your desired impact , and the outcomes or indicators you’ll need to monitor to see your progress toward that goal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 17, 2007

The discussion of Open Content I joined last week has continued. In an articulate polemic Laura Quinn of Idealware lambastes what she calls the "tooth-fairy" idealism those who maintain that all content in the non-profit sector ought to be free. What one is willing to pay for something reflects the value one places on it.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The leadership environment Leaders (whether on a team, in a department or institution-wide) have to be open to taking risks, trying new things, evaluating and learning from failures. The leadership environment is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2015

During the opening session Jeff Shuck, CEO of Plenty, went “Behind the Numbers” of the Peer to Peer Thirty. When we say things like this, what we’re really saying is, “I personally don’t believe in this mission enough” or “We don’t do a good enough job articulating how important this cause is.” ” Overnight success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Blogging as personal discovery and connected conversation with colleagues Writing a blog regularly provides a vehicle for personal reflection and learning about your practice that can be easily shared with professional colleagues via a connected conversation. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Our team articulately expressed direct, succinct truths that required no editing. Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization. Not only do we write open source software, but the content we create is almost always available under Creative Commons licenses. They just worked! We value transparency.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Is that when fundraising expectations are clearly articulated during recruitment 52% of CEOs report that their boards are actively engaged in an organization’s fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The intent was to provide a deep dive for program officers to reflect on the way they currently work, identify what needs to change to create more impact, and come up with some prototypes. The retreat would be out in the open and get input and ideas for strategic grassroots philanthropy. Retreat on the Street. Big Idea Day.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Eventually, they had an opening for "Exhibits and Programs Associate"--a low-level jack of all trades position supporting the department. Six months in, the Museum committed to creating a highly interactive, separate ticket "you be the spy" experience (now open and named Operation Spy). You have to tell them what you want.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Here is how I would state the mission for greater clarity: We train people in entrepreneurship and provide access to capital to open small businesses. Often people involved in an organization have different answers to these questions, and a long mission statement reflects a desire to include everyone’s perspective. Why do we exist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Pause for reflection time before next reiteration: How to improve results? Can we calculate it if we haven't done anything yet? Return on Investment is a much broader concept that doing math. If you lay it step-by-step, it includes these: Smart Objective.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? The London Science Museum team designed an entire exhibition and then left a few open vitrines at the end for visitors to contribute their own toys during the run of the exhibition. If your institution says it is bold and fearless, how do your programs support that?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. It’s also important to have diverse perspectives and backgrounds represented on the board to ensure that the nonprofit’s work is reflective of the community it serves.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Elucidat is known for creating training for large– at times global– employers, and that’s reflected in both its features and pricing. Articulate 360.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. You leave the opening dazed, relieved, and happy to see people enjoying the pieces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. So is creativity.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Our goals are really easy to articulate.” So if your fundraising team is going to secure investment level donations, if you’re going to pick up all that money that’s sitting on the table right now, you have to be able to share and articulate the true need in investment level conversations. Would you be open to that?”

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The honest reflections from staff members beyond curatorial and education departments--including registrars, security staff, and PR--are unparalleled. Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. The YES program helps teens not only learn science but learn how to articulate their interests and pursue new passions. Most of the walls are clear, so the space feels open, welcoming, and safely overseen.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said. So you’re reflecting back what they said, and then you essentially deflect it. . You reflect what they said, so you understand and people feel heard. Next slide. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

In the work in Bolivia, we really saw, sitting around that table, women really talking to each other and seeing reflections of themselves; and watching the connection that then became available was worth all of it. So I would say that the inspiration comes from the connection that is available through opening up a space like this.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. The YES program helps teens not only learn science but learn how to articulate their interests and pursue new passions. Most of the walls are clear, so the space feels open, welcoming, and safely overseen.

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