Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Just wanted to let those of you who are bloggers, or who have blogger pals, know about two classes (in Berkeley and online), that I'll be teaching in January 2012. Tea and Cupcakes with Creative Bloggers Sunday, January 15, 2012 1-4 PM Teahouse Studio 1250 Addision St., 35 when you register by January 8th. of your blog?

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JANUARY 2, 2015

During the course, you’ll play with fun assignments on a private blog with your fellow juicy bloggers. You can work privately on your own, or interact with your fellow students in the comments of each lesson’s posts by asking questions, sharing reflections, and posting links to your blog posts for feedback.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

It was a bit of fun mixed with experiment, and I think it was really successful. Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. We wanted it to be something fun and interesting, so people would want to join – a surprise party!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

We'll do three kinds of fun-work during the 4-week class: Reflection questions to refine your blog’s purpose Connection assignments to build community and traffic Creative and juicy blog post prompts to get you writing Past students have said about the class. “So The best part of it all is that it is just so much fun!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Inspired by my post, 20 Ways to be a Generous Blogger, I shared 12 Prompts for Generous Living and Blogging in this month's Juicy Blogging e-News. You don't need to be a blogger, to try the Generous Living prompts, so I thought I'd share them here too. Have fun doing good! Blog it: Share your reflections on your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Besides creating the conditions for grantees to be more successful, making these changes just might free up time to spend on learning and reflection. Flickr Photo by Zen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2010

Moving to this new blog put me in a reflective mood. A year later, I launched my first professional blog on the software that eventually became Google’s blogger. His comment inspired me to start a personal blog on Cambodian culture and connect with other Cambodian bloggers. 3129: Total Posts. 7641: Total Comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Whether I'm working with bloggers and creative entrepreneurs , or talking with a friend, everyone I know is trying to grow good habits. As some of you know, during the 40 days before I turned 40, I did a daily practice of moving, playing, reflecting and connecting. By the time my birthday came around, I felt great!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

Milk the Cow is one example and while it might have been fun to do different handshakes when you were summer camp in Junior High, it is awkward and a little creepy to do this type of opener with professionals. Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid. 5) Meet and Greet: Fun Introductions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

Here’s a few reflections about presenting remotely in locations outside of the US. Tharum Bun , a blogger in Cambodia that I have known for ten years, did an introduction and I presented for 25 minutes. Format: Our session was 90 minutes. Photo by Be Chandra. Training Design'

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 29, 2009

Louis Gray has a wonderful post on the subject that reflects my own opinion, “Blogging Is Still the Foundation In A World of Streams.&#. While I believe the best bloggers in the world are participating outside of their blog, on Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and everywhere else, to only participate in those areas leaves a gaping hole.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Handwritten letters are magical (I discovered this during my Daily Have Fun Do Good Practice: Move, Play, Reflect, Connect ). Blog Blazers : 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets To Creating a High Profile, High Traffic, and High Profit Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

I'm still dancing on the edges between action and reflection, but wanted to get down some of my evolving next action steps and questions for reflection. How can learn more from the content while juggling live blogging of the being there fun stuff? It is hard, but if I don't do it now, I'm afraid I'll loose forever. To Do List.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2010

First off, I just wanted to say thanks for reading my Reverb 10 posts this month as I reflect on the past year, and the year ahead. Blogger Deb Roby taught me how to knit a few years ago, but then I put it down. I didn't write the Have Fun, Do Good Guide book proposal or e-book, like I told y'all I would back in January 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Although, isn’t it fun to picture Bill Gates on horseback, sporting an eye-patch and six shooter?) We have seen that without restlessness, the fire can dwindle.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2011

For bloggers : You can enter your submission in one of two ways. Whether I'm talking with a nonprofit staffer, or a fellow nonprofit consultant, the topic of time always comes up. I'd love to hear your time management tips for nonprofits and nonprofit consultants. How do we get more of what we want to do done, and less of what we don't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content. That’s the theory at least.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Super duper nonprofit tech blogger Amy Sample Ward has tagged me in a new meme started by Mindapples: What's Your 5-A-Day? I'm supposed to share the five things I do each day that keep my mind healthy (kinda like how five servings of fruits and veggies keep your body healthy), and then tag 5 more bloggers to share their 5-A-Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

That Tweet, out in the wild for about an hour, did not go unnoticed by Twitter followers, Beer bloggers , and, of course, Wendy Harman at the Red Cross who got awakened in the middle of the night with a call from a staff person in Chicago wanting to know about the Tweet. Thinking quickly, they did disaster recovery on the rogue Tweet.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

The cards focus on strengths-based reflections and are an easy tool to get meetings started on a positive note, even if you are discussing challenging issues. Blogger has been having a few issues lately, but they're working to resolve their problems and will hopefully restore the comments soon. Second, use tools and practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Connie Reece shared some insights in this interview and you find more links to case studies and post campaign reflections here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

In fact, it ought to be a fun, exhilarating, rewarding experience for both members of this important leadership team. Thirty-two CEOs responded, and the results were extremely informative, leading to the greater question of how often this relationship is fun, exhilarating, and rewarding. I have found no studies that dispute this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

The decor is designed to reflect the warm, decadent atmosphere of 1940s nightlife." This is a favorite restaurant of the Berkman Thursday bloggers group because of the great food and reasonable prices - (not to mention the free wifi.) So, calling out to all Bloghers as well as Boston Technobabes to join us for the fun!

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You could also make it extra fun by giving away free branded swag to all who attend! There are a number of media outlets you can use to publicize your program, including: TV or radio stations Newspapers Magazines Local bloggers or social media influencers. Leave time for questions at the end of the session. Tap into schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

Over the past six months, when I've spotted a twitter badge on a nonprofit blogger's site or if they mentioned it, I checked it out again. Last week, I explored it a bit with Allan Benamer and Peter Gulka and it was fun, but still wondering how it might be of use to nonprofits. Roo Reynolds reflects on ten days of being on twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2008

For more information about joining the 29-Day Giving Challenge, go to [link] , and check out what other bloggers are saying about it: Monday was Day 29 for BlogHer Editor Green LA Girl , and today is Day 29 for the Chief Family Officer. I'm sure they'll post their reflections in the week ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The topics covered: citizen journalist debate (bloggers versus journalist), the echo chamber, ROI of blogging, trolls, a-list , and civility. Here 's her reflection and pointer to the talk. Sarah walked around the room, Oprah style and had a conversation with the audience. Geoff Livingston summarizes the debates in the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

" They have begun inviting local bloggers as press to openings and events - usually they get in touch with Mike Woycheck or Cynthia Closkey, two of the co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers , who then re-blog the invitation and spread it via Facebook or their own Twitter streams. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. We also suspect that the online survey allows people more opportunity for reflection and recall than a live telephone survey does. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Its very reflective of America's wallets. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. This survey was very informative about the nonprofit sector's financial status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? Mike Seyfang responded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Blogging as personal discovery and connected conversation with colleagues Writing a blog regularly provides a vehicle for personal reflection and learning about your practice that can be easily shared with professional colleagues via a connected conversation. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Here is a definition from the Campus Compact site : Service-learning is a teaching method which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

at 8:21 am What a great conversation; fun to have but for the fact that it misses the point. It WILL get less traffic, though likely very important traffic from other bloggers and organizations who will pick up the idea (that would be called ‘organizing’). 6 Katrin 09.19.07 But then again, demagoguery always is.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

So many of the activities available in interactive museums--exploding toothpaste, liquid nitrogen ice cream, collage-making, robot wars--are just as interesting, educational, and fun for adults as they are for kids. As one NYCResistor blogger effuses , "Will this endless parade of awesome classes never end?"

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