Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2005

I haven't been blogging much this month because I've been immersed in an online workshop on the topic of online facilitation with Nancy White at Full Circle. I came to the workshop with an interest in learning more about facilitation of blogging communities as well as how some of the new tools - like audio and video may be deployed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

WhatsApp represents one such medium that presents nonprofits with an outstanding opportunity to engage with stakeholders through texts, attachments, and multiple forms of conversations delivered to their mobile phones and now to their desktops. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. As one might guess, Clubhouse was one that floated to the top.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2010

Beth facilitated a conversation, among the panelists as well as the standing-room-only room of participants, that focused on the power of crowdsourcing and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you missed the session, you can revisit it via twitter, or video below!

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Research shows that interactive content earns more engagement and twice as many conversions as static content. Simple language free of jargon.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. Bottom of Funnel: At the bottom of the funnel, users have signaled that they are ready to take a conversion action. Reach top-funnel users with podcast & audio ads.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Furthermore, the speed at which your donation page loads plays a significant role in maximizing conversion rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact. Just added these to my trainer kit). … Read More.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review your site’s metrics such as time spent on each page, call to action (CTA) click-through rate, bounce rate, and conversion rates for pages such as your donation form or new patient registration page. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Assess website analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. Here’s how it was used during Day 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. I want to know what you think.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

However, based on my conversations and experiences with many museum professionals, my guess is that many of you are aware of the issue, may think it’s worth discussing, but have limited knowledge about the core issues surrounding bilingual interpretation.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

The Conversational Keynote: Room Configuration Is Key. I’m working on perfecting the conversational keynote. The space where I gave my keynote in Toronto is well designed designed for conversational keynote format. There was also a dream team of audio visual techs. I look forward to continuing the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

I was reflecting about snippets of conversation that happen around tagged items in the NpTech tagging community -- although not all have been deeply reflective conversations. " So, here's a tool that may (or may not) facilitate those conversations around "stuff" or tagged items.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

The site allows users to upload content — video, audio, and images — and invite others to put the pieces together. The site has social media integration to better facilitate sharing and collaboration. Harris rounded out the conversation on collaborative storytelling by sharing the story of the Global Lives Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

s experiment and examples in Brian Russell from Audio Activism's recent presentation. Facilitating people who receive organization???s Podcasting by nonprofits is also still in the embryonic stages with the exception of Andy Carvin. Examples are few: ItConversations , Gregory Heller???s What are some examples of nonprofit blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

We "met" when we both took the incredible Nancy White 's Online Facilitation Workshop. How can one integrate audio/podcasting and video logging into online conversation effectively? In addition to the workshop curriculum, we were encouraged to explore our own inquiry questions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. I'm pretty sure an audio recording will be available eventually. Pretty awesome. A real treat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Nancy has a post about " Over the Shoulder Learning " I always try and promote the people and process stuff, but the reality is that tools are often the "door opener" to the process conversations because they are more tangible. And, I wonder how that can be facilitated by the Internet and Technology. "Cheating."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

During the Full Circle training on online facilitation that I took this last month, we had a sandbox. It allowed us to play and get comfortable with the discussion software, faciliplay exercises, and other areas that participants wanted to explore like the audio as online conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I met a lot of fantastic videobloggers as well as learned a lot through the discussion on production values facilitated by David Tames. Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I think that widgets can facilitate social networking connections (check out the mybloglog widget on my sidebar) and enhanced the interaction or conversation already taking place on the blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. If the conversation becomes too heated, you can always take it over to email. Interviews (written, audio, video). Ask readers to share opinions, resources, and content (blog posts, photos, audio, video). If they are civil, allow comments that are critical of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

In 2005, at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, there was a flap about the backchannel because the conversation crossed a line. . To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. One of the reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. The audio-visual crew did a top-notch job juggling all the video, countdown clocks, slides, props and miking, adding to the sense that this social media stuff is really big-time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Tracking Blog Conversations. (It reminded of Gary Turner's Webmaster Traffic Art and his batman creation.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. 09 was the first version I used).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. A mix of conversational marketing. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. You are writing to create conversation, not to just inform. .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. As Beck puts it: I think there’s something human in sheet music, something that doesn’t depend on technology to facilitate it—it’s a way of opening music up to what someone else is able to bring to it. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sharing stories about your volunteers, beneficiaries, staff members, and other stakeholders can introduce potential new supporters to what your mission is all about and facilitate a positive connection with your nonprofit. This is specifically helpful for important conversion pages like your online donation form.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Today, the conversation has shifted towards making our websites accessible as a key requirement of the development process - for complex reasons and with complex benefits. As a rehab teacher, it seems to be what I teach most of the time these days, since there are so many apps that facilitate independent living." Next Steps?

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