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Washington, DC: Book Launch Events

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Book Party in at the Case Foundation: Who Has Their Hands on the Book. We were in Washington, DC on Thursday and Friday for our book tour for The Networked Nonprofit to celebrate with live and virtual events hosted by the Case Foundation and Chronicle of Philanthropy. We also keynoted the Nonprofit 2.0

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are also nonprofit specific facilitation tool kits like this one for international development projects. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus.

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Thank You For Making The Networked Nonprofit Launch A Hit!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was a special launch day for our book, The Networked Nonprofit , thanks to you! On June 21st, the book was in the top 200 bestsellers on Amazon for the past five hours. We had a lot of fun with the Ustream live stream and Twitter chat where we discussed the themes from the book and answer questions. Social Culture.

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Nonprofit 2.0 Reflections: Sharing Practices Around Listening and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That was the gift of attending Nonprofit 2.0 Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. Her blog is a must-read and I hope someday that she writes a book. I participated in two unconference sessions.

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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

Whenever I learn about a new concept or trend in technology, I try and think about how nonprofits and libraries could use it or benefit from it. The movement has huge potential for nonprofits and public libraries, but it still has some ways to go in the overall technology sector. Nonprofits use donor management tools to manage funders.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Tips to Humanize Your Social Media

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During the 3 rd annual Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference this really resonated with me when Paul Young of charity: water said in his keynote, what if your online communications (website, social media, fundraising appeals) looked like how you talked. “You would be telling great stories,” said Young.