Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. BlogHer always inspires me and this one did not fail. It was better than eating chocolate!

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JUNE 26, 2010

It was also wonderful to see Cynthia Samuels (BlogHer); Jocelyn Harman (Care2); Bill Strathan (Network(ed) for Good); Michael Hoffman (NTEN); Christina Arnold (Cambodia); Kate Bladow ; and many others. Wendy and I facilitated an unconference session on listening later in the day and I’ll share what we learned in a second post.

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JULY 22, 2008

Much of my connection has been facilitated by online technology so it was great to participate - finally - face-to-face. tools that facilitate this. The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). Marnie Webb by JD Lasica. My friend, David Cohn, attended.

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JUNE 5, 2009

The List of Change was developed by programmer Shannon Whitley and Geoff Livingston , and co-facilitated by changeblogger extraordinaire, and my co-Contributing Editor of the Social Change section of BlogHer, Beth Kanter. Eventually the List will be moved to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s site after its redesign.

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OCTOBER 23, 2007

Deb Roby a BlogHer Blogger. I facilitated a session on working in the nonprofit sector, with colleague Liz Perry , who is a sketch blogger and works an instructional technology specialist in a nonprofit school. Two of my favorite bloghers who have worked in the nonprofit sector were also in the room, Liz Henry and her sister.

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MAY 9, 2012

Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. She works with individuals and organizations whose mission is to increase our capacity for empathy, generosity, and creativity.

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MAY 29, 2009

Beth Kanter , my co-Contributing Editor for BlogHer's Social Change and Nonprofit section , and I will both be speaking about how nonprofits can use social media. My session, which I'll be co-facilitating with Eric Leland of Eric Leland Design , is, Get Started Using Social Media - Today!

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AUGUST 19, 2007

Since the event is dedicated to BlogDay, I'm sure that my BlogDay post will point to five (or more) Cambodian BlogHers. I plan on participating in a small group session called "Gender and Blogging" facilitated by Sopheap Chak. (I On that day, I'll be in Cambodia at the first Cambodian Blogger Summit Conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

I am also so excited that the there will be a breakout session titled "Gender Blogging" facilitated by Srei Saat and Sopheap Chak. (I I can't wait to share what I learn with the Blogher Community). I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 and video blogging to Cambodians and a delivering a keynote!

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MAY 23, 2008

A couple weeks ago I asked you and the Have Fun * Do Good Facebook group for suggestions for Changebloggers, people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

First, there was a lot of energy in the room, similar to the blogher , because a lot of people had been reading each other's blogs or posts on GV, but had never met face-to-face. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. I vlogged it here: Download cultureshock.wmv. Next year in Nigeria?).

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Next week, Beth Kanter will be continuing this BlogHer series about getting started using social media for your nonprofit, or do-good project with posts about social networking, connecting offline and online action, and raising money on social networks.

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MAY 2, 2008

Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I tried to apply all that I learned about facilitating online conversations, connecting, and networking to blogging. A totally manual blog! The Typo Police Page. Note the blink tag! t have hand code 2.) I signed up.

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JULY 11, 2007

A few weeks ago I discovered the Nonprofit Management Wiki facilitated by Rosetta Thurman who calls herself a "nonprofit geek." Cross posted at BlogHer. I hope she will find time to continue blogging or at least guest blogging ! Her last blog post at her old job is how to prepare for employee transition !

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JULY 1, 2006

He wanted to work for an organization that facilitates bottom-up approaches to sustainable development and after seeing an ad in the Idealist he jumped at the opportunity to GlobalGiving's team. (I I just posted an interview with Sombit over at blogher where Sombit mentions his plans for GlobalGiving's presence on Second Life.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The term "extra organizational activist" comes from Alison Fine's book Momentum and I first heard it back in September 2006 when I read the book and reviewed it over at Blogher. " She concludes the chapter with some ways that activist organizations can support the efforts of individuals and stay relevant.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. 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?"

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APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Cross-posted from BlogHer. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Echoing Green Fellows' descriptions of their moments of obligation.

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AUGUST 25, 2006

Another example of using a wiki to organize captured notes was Amy Gahran's wiki of all the blog posts and notes from the recent Blogher conference, compiled post-event and facilitated by the use a conference tag.

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AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. Even though I'm more like twenty-something times 2.5, Why did I go? So, having this opportunity listen was very valuable.

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JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. Outside of blogs, I think that anything that facilitates word of mouth can be very effective.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along. Cross-posted from BlogHer. They can create the change makers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer It is my absolute honor to help people find pieces of peace within, while outwardly expressing this life process though dance with our bodies. I've narrowed it down to 7 ways to have fun and do good , that can be mixed and matched: Personal choices (e.g. But it’s also fun. Heather Meyer, Work It Out!

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MAY 10, 2006

The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then. Another blogger, Chak Sopheap , who now works as a program officer at the NGO, The Human Rights Center. In 2007 at the bloggers summit, she facilitated a session about gender and blogging. It was terrific to see Tharum who was one of the first Cambodia bloggers.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

articles on TechSoup, including those written by Nptechersphere bloghers Marnie Webb ( Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 Seth Mazow, who attended blogher conference, and who writes the non-governmental imagination blog , asks " Am I a tech conference whore?

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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. The question. "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" " was raised. I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? The Engage Network is a nonprofit social venture that facilitates the power of small community groups to create social change. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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MARCH 8, 2007

Cross-posted from BlogHer. As local groups coordinator, I connect CODEPINK's national campaigns with the grassroots women's movement for peace, and brings organizing resources to local coordinators. My newest favorite thing to peruse is this site called www.wefeelfine.org —it’s a program that searches blogs, myspace, etc. Check it out.

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