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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Fun with Drupal Commons, a Powerful Solution for Online Community Building

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In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. It is an exciting time. The Internet is getting physical and charitable.

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Case Study: NTEN’s Website Relaunch

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What are the specific pain points and challenges you hope to overcome through this re-launch? The content committee will facilitate a card-sorting exercise at our upcoming all-staff retreat. Have a taxonomy horror story? 4) Reporting—this committee is ensuring our processes are documented and shared with the NTEN community.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? The Challenge of Transfer. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people?

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. Conclusion.

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