Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. ” Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." There are examples (see below). The first wave of this was the social media strategists for nonprofits, take Wendy Harman for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

As demonostrated by this project, podcasting can also facilitate visitors creating their own guides and tours. For starters, podcasting can liberate art lovers from the museum's clunky audio sets and enjoy the Museum's "Official Audio" more stylist piece of equipment. Which is something a musem would want to embrace, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

  Each group will be assigned an instructor/facilitator.   Here's an example: Photo by Bitmask.    He has reiterated this game over and over for different audiences and circumstances and I've remixed the game for filmmakers and even took it to Cambodia.  5 minutes). TOURISM CAMPAIGN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. For example, they have a Climate Corps program. The Fellows are blogging about their experience and learnings on The Innovation Exchange blog. Introduction to the EDF Innovation Exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

For example, during the lab session, we got a terrific question about bilingual Fan Pages on Facebook. In all previous versions of this game, I used simulations (a fictional example of an organization or situation that had a smart objective and audience already defined). Many people have also remixed it. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

This a terrific example of in working in networked way. According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." Here's an example. Iavor is primarily looking for content to tweet about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. Modeling the norm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. This session will define core concepts including the Creative Commons license, and then offer examples of how open content is already benefitting the nonprofit sector. Here's the description. Do I need anything type of card?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. They took live notes on their blog and invited others to participate , live tweeting the event, and engaging members on Facebook. Somethings to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant. This was very helpful as always because I tend to incorporate participant examples in the materials as much as possible. . I put this question out on Twitter and summarize in the next blog post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" " Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way? This has to be set up in the right way - for example. Levels of Participation. 3) Joins the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. For example, the Giving Tuesday Toolkit offers some excellent curriculum to involve kids in Giving Day activities. Or you can borrow some ideas from Hollywood.

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