Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.) MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. What's that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Deanna Zandt is a blogger who writes about social media, civil society, and activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages. From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. Meedan is working with a tool that was intended to annotate tweets called Curated.by – an elegant workaround.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

BlogDay is focused on getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. You are suppose to notify the bloggers, write a brief description of their blogs, and tag your post with BlogDay2007. It's simple to do and a great way to connect with other bloggers and pass along some link love.

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APRIL 15, 2014

Last month we turned to fundraising guru and guest blogger Gail Perry for advice on how to make your board members a little less BORED. 8) Interview the Executive Director. Occasionally consider allowing time for the board members to interview the executive director about what is on his/her mind. 12) Break into groups.

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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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You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members. A coffee meet-up is perfect for this type of introduction.

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JUNE 8, 2011

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. Also, the caliber of other workshop facilitators was definitely a plus!

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Interviews (written, audio, video).

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JUNE 24, 2009

Some factors she feels can support social innovations' success are: Engaging the crowd and using the wisdom of the crowds to facilitate innovations coming through the pipeline. Create a competitive marketplace that showcases a variety of ideas. Give voice to new and alternative actors. Trusting in the importance of new ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. Blogrolls or linkblogs of nonprofit bloggers ( Deborah Finn's Blogroll or Marnie Webb 's sidebar). NTEN/NTC Conference Bloggers. Facilitating people who receive organization???s

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APRIL 28, 2010

We've provided training on how to interview subjects, tips for photographing and video-recording, as well as best practices for writing strong stories that encourage and elicit action. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" 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. Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. I also discovered during our interview that Nedra plays the cello !) Outside of blogs, I think that anything that facilitates word of mouth can be very effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet. Access is only the first part of the equation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? Their loyalty will serve you well.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Instead of printed annual reports, try doing a video with interview and clips from what you’ve done the last year. Engage your Millennials as guest bloggers. It isn’t that we need to organize them, but we need to facilitate ways for them to organize themselves. Help Millennial donors experience your cause online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." Invisible People uses crowd sourcing to select the best stories and interviews. So, armed with an improvised mobile wireless mic, I used an Oprah style facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The question. " was raised. I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Instead of printed annual reports, try doing a video with interview and clips from what you've done the last year. Engage your Millennials as guest bloggers. It isn't that we need to organize them, but we need to facilitate ways for them to organize themselves. Help Millennial donors experience your cause online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. And during breaks from sessions, did a lot of media interviews. As a blogger, I've been given copies of books to write reviews and have also purchased books myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

We recently had a delightful email interview about some of the ideas and themes from the book. You can think about it as learning to facilitate crowds, with their own free will, rather than dictating to people held within databases. AF: In the book I write about Jennifer James and her Mom Bloggers for Social Change.

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Interviews with Experts (e.g., When I worked at the San Francisco Food Bank, we noticed our audience followed food and Mommy bloggers, so we reached out to these folks for endorsements. Conduct an interview with a trusted expert. Recommendations (e.g., “Top Top Movies about Justice”). Recipes (e.g., White Papers (e.g.,

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