Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

I really think that it is much more effective for learning than talking heads or expert brain dump. Collaboration is hard and even harder when you don't write, think, or have the same tone. It may be easier to write a book alone , but a collaborative effort can produce something rich. I realized that I.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Then you should check out the Creativity and Collaboration (C2) retreat sponsored by NAME and AAM, May 31-June 2 of this year in Monterey, CA. Being on the C2 planning team has stretched my brain to consciously think about the processes and conditions for creativity and collaboration. Sounds good?

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

She was told that a brain tumor was pressing on her optic nerve and may cause her to become blind. In her quest to Bookshare International, Viji also collaborates with other international organizations including the International Council for the Education of the Visually Impaired and Sight Savers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Be strategic about cross linking and collaborating with other organizations on Facebook by using tagging, page favorites, and participating. My point is that movement gets blood flood to brain and people wake up if they’re in an information overload coma). Charles Porch, Facebook. Here’s some more tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

As the Smithson points out there are benefits such as building support, having a global brain trust, and not waiting until the last minute. . conference , Twitter , YouTube , and ongoing collaboration through the wiki. Tags: transparency. Michael Edson is the Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

We don’t have the time or brain cells for that. It’s about finding people who are connected to different social circles and following them. This can be useful to find potential collaborators. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Tips Tools and Tactics klout mailana network theory tools twiangulate valdiskrebs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

What’s in my brain, can be in yours! is aligned with my core values of collaboration and sharing. This article was originally posted on Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech at [link] by Amy Sample Ward: Amy is a communicator, collaborator and catalyst in the tech for good sector and the Global Community Builder at NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yes, there is a delicious list of tools to explore which include some of my favorite types of tools - aggregation, analytics, monitoring, collaboration, blogging, microblogging, and more! How does this change our brains and the way we process information or even learn? Tags: realtimeweb. My interest just isn't in the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

And the goal of those relationships can be learning, collaboration, policy, service delivery, advocacy, mobilizing or action. I also pointed out that it uses a different part of your brain and there is a need to shift mindsets to get other types of work done. Peter and Madeleine describe networks as "platforms for relationships."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2009

This is the job description shared by Brains on Fire (how great is having a name like that?) In my usual collaborative, expansive, and generous self I've often encountered tremendous resistance to this kind of behavior. Tags: movement building. The best way of movement is "let's do this together" kind of experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. I don't really have commercial aims for my blog so it is more a playground and archive for my brain, which I hope will be useful to whoever happens by. Tell me about your experience with tagging.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The rise of data aggregation and collections has spurred tremendous collaborative interactions among people. The tools are coming together to help people collaborate and receive real-time information such hurricane movements. Technorati Tags: wes08sep. It also allowed the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I have a hypertext brain. The chapter identifies a new area for PR folks to measure - education, participation, and collaboration. Tags: metrics ROI. If you are a social media strategist, it's a great book to share with your senior manager. Mentions an alternative tool to Feedburner - Pheedo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. He talked about the growth of wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I hate it when I can't instantly pull facts out of my brain. I go to my blogreader or email and then I get distracted or I can't quickly extract it from del.ici.ous because I didn't tag it carefully or I can't quite remember the correct name of the blog. I find myself stumbling. Has anyone developed that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

tags: arts ). Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain. I also got a chance to spend some time with Thomas Taylor , the Alliance's nonprofit technology in-house guru and social media whiz who turned me to twitpic.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Fostering new connections is also why we prefer collaborative programming with other arts and education groups as opposed to developing everything internally.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. And there are three reasons I’d really value your participation: I want to suck your brain and revel in your inventiveness. So how about it?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. I want to see more graduate programs (and less formal opportunities) like Bank Street's Leadership program, which is for working, mid-career educators to collaborate and learn in a high-quality, focused environment. Tags: professional development. Summer's coming to D.C.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. distributed collaboration - building worlds together. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c The key note was delivered by Steven Johnson, author of "Everything Bad for You is Good." They were presenting in Davos, Switzerland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Other pieces of that transformation include the work by grantmakers to reduce the role of programmatic silos of funding and the growing emphasis on collaboration, both between grantmakers and between grantees. It builds connections with clients and collaborators. Collaborate. Technorati Tags: nptech. It hones my thinking.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

When I stretch my brain, I can imagine this being useful when: most of the museum-going audience does not have regular access to computers/web. Embedding content into collaborative touch tables, large-scale projections, and other multi-person accessible experiences may foster social exchange. the content delivery is flexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I Understand how to have influence via electronic participation and collaboration. Tags: network effectiveness policy. So, I'm giving it away.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Compelling images The human brain can process images as quickly as 13 milliseconds. The blog post demonstrates how the organization infuses its values like collaboration, compassion, and inclusiveness into every aspect of its work, including its approach to staff development. Let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. Typically these are collaborations between the crowd and individuals guiding them. Tags: crowdsourcing. Ah, a crowdweaver!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

At Hazon, we try to schedule meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays, and when possible, leave other days open for work and other collaborations. I didn’t tag people, but each week would email the group to say the WAW was on, and promote it a little. When I returned to regular staff life, after one day of sitting my brain felt like mud.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way. And doing things as a team in a collaborative, trusting way is always way better than like storming off on your own and expecting people to follow you.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ve collaborated on some content. And then, as Steven suggested, we have collaborated on, a while back now, a manual. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. She’ll tell you about that. I’m going to stop sharing.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

“In the domain of collaborative production, it is Heisenberg’s press release: the more completely in advance you take credit for future success, the less likely that success becomes.&#. It’s something I say all the tine: my brain can only hold so much, but when I rely on my community, on the web, I can be SO much smarter!

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