Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. These are brief, introductory exercises that help participants to get know each other, get connected to the topic, and their own learning outcomes. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Over the years, I used this exercise for different audiences, from filmmakers to university professionals. This exercise is most appropriate for people who want to know the what/why versus the best practices of how to do it. In workshops, I'd play the video and have folks jot down words or themes. What style of dancing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

Here's an interview with did with Holly Ross prior to the session. On the content side, I was surprised to hear the responses to the simplicity exercise - what could your organization do less of? Meetings was a big one, followed by worry! Shawn , a passionate free agent fundraiser and video blogger, was in the room.

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NTC Network Reflection Nonprofit 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

As part of the research for our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , Aliza Sherman and I have been reading, interviewing, and researching self-care practices both for the individual and how nonprofit organizations can support it. We’ve come across examples of how nonprofit abuse self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Personal bloggers, of course, are wise to exercise caution about what they write about as Pamela Ashlund suggested in an interview I did with her last year. There are also those bloggers who write under a pen name or are anonymous. Two nonprofit bloggers are: Pulling My Hair Out Today I Cried.

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Personal Blogger Info Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

I facilitated a number of openings, but we also got to experience a few opening exercises they use at the Starfish School. Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid. Working with Wake is also a wonderful professional development experience to hone training and facilitation trade craft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. On the right, is Sopheap who I interviewed for BlogHer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

To figure out how you can make an impact, try this exercise based on a similar one from Carol Lloyd's book Creating a Life Worth Living : 1. I'll be posting a transcript this week, or next week from my Big Vision Podcast interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. I participated in the role play exercise with him and he is a strong leader. Read his blog post about winning ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. See this one of Marshall's feet) He even put up with me doing a public speaking exercise, shaking hands and singing twinkle, twinkle little star. s very difficult to decide which to attend. This year, I finally got an opportunity to attend. Ma.gnolia 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

I've got a little exercise to get you warmed up. Here's a great interview that I did with Elana Wolowitz from Wellstone Action on their use of Twitter. What about blogger outreach? It depends on what the goal of the blog is and also how much investment the company (and the blogger) puts into it. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally.

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Story Learning Organization Metrics 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field.

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Wiki Technorati RSS Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A few posts on mobile activism Sparechange blogger, Nedra Weinreich writes about two social activism strategies using mobile phones designed to involve young people.

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Blogher Blogger Disaster Conference 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And during breaks from sessions, did a lot of media interviews. I was very impressed with the way this group did the small group exercise in the social media game They were able to adapt it to their own programs. As a blogger, I've been given copies of books to write reviews and have also purchased books myself.

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. You can also listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast. *

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