Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. Key is a participatory development process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles. The Session Design and Implementation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. In the book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness, and (World Peace) , author Chade-Meng Tan offers 3 simple techniques to practice mindful conversations.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. The HardlyNormal Cup of Coffee, Social Media for Social Good series. For three mornings (Saturday, Sunday and Monday) in the BeaconFire Lounge, respective leaders and experts in the field of using social media for social good will be speaking and recording an online tv series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. We’re only four years into the Twitter era, after all.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

If your exposure is primarily through news media, your initial reaction may have more to do with child predators than long exchanges about boy bands. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?" Structure the space with a clear story (and commensurate rules). Or is it the stalkers?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. These terms come from Robert Putnam, Harvard researcher and author of Bowling Alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. In most cases simple syntax structure is used. The session outline is as follows: Introduction.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Peter and I brought in two equally passionate partners, Jim Dwyer, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the NY Times; and Geralyn Abinader, the former head of digital media at the American Museum of Natural History. I was struck by how this is partly interactive, but within a structured, linear narrative. So we had the key players.

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