Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. Then off to an evening session at PRSA-Alaska Chapter at the Providence Center Cancer Center to talk about the Networked Nonprofit.

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Alaska Cancer Facilitation Leadership 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ).

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Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. Her work was the inspiration for Rheingold’s book (the mindfulness chapter).

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Attention New Zealand Mind Technique 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. They start this chapter by stating the word "change" has five different meanings. Think about some of the changes reflected by this typewriter, manufactured by E.

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Change Management Adopt Social Media Change 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2017

This post shares a useful exercise for your digital team to reflect on what not to do for your digital strategy! Note from Beth: My colleagues at See3 had some fun using some of the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and apply it to creating an organizational digital strategy. Easier said than done, for sure.

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Exercise Strategy Storytelling Digital 66

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating the webinar, A Cooperative Approach to Web Design. During the webinar, we first heard from Elliot Harmon , who highlighted a few key ideas about web design previously discussed in his chapter of Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals.

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Design Web Internet Chapter 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

While community organizers often find themselves pressed to take the time to assess in light of daily crises and immediate problems, movement builders have learned the power of reflection and refreshing. We spent a chapter or two talking about exactly how to put this into practice because is this a very important point.

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Metrics Fund Build Social 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? Does not have a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Does not have a dashboard or simple collection method.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Then comes the difficult part – identifying what “associated” metrics from social, email, and your web site that you need to collect. What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book.

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter. The most interesting question was "What should funders think about to encourage effective social media strategy best practice?"

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Social Media Leadership Media Social 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. We've been working on what started out as the a chapter on Metrics and ROI. I've written endlessly about the techniques of listening, metrics, reflection and reiteration.

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Learning Technique Metrics ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

When I facilitated technology and web workshops for nonprofits in the 1990's, I did a lot of workshops on TechnoStress where small groups would identify their concerns and then literally draw a picture of them. are some drawings and reflections. from nonprofit staff members in the early to mid-1990's about. using the web, email, etc.

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Adopt Social Media Media Social 90

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members. A coffee meet-up is perfect for this type of introduction. Tap into schools.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Free Agent Social Fundraising: I am very interested in seeing how people can take action on their own, outside of an organizational context, because of the connectedness that social media has facilitated.

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Goal ROI Wiki Metrics 50

Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Building local chapters. You'll want to post regular reflections on your blog, and on Twitter and Facebook so people can engage with you along the way. Share pictures, video, Tweets, Facebook posts, and blog reflections from the road. Raising funds.

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Advocacy Community Build Storytelling 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I shared some thoughts about the Causes Birthday application design , and have continued my reflections below. I contributed a chapter on this topic to the Psychology of Facebook , so I'm going to stop myself from going on about that now. We've raised $1, 206 to help children in Cambodia. Notes about application. Let me explain.

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Causes Facebook Raise Cambodia 51

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Research / @SSIReview. The Corps Network National Conference.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Our homepage reflected that theme, always displaying 10 or 12 ways to donate dollars or air miles, buy products to support wish granting, or launch fundraisers on our behalf. Eventually, we anticipate adding these tools to our chapter websites as well. Our website was performing respectably. Content Curation. More Multimedia.

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Conversation Chapter Channel Module 106

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

It works because: Your supporters can customize their donation pages to reflect their own relationship with your mission. Step 2: Facilitate donation pages. This crowd-pleasing event is successful ly used by Big Brothers Big Sisters chapters all over the United States. What’s the central theme?

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Guide Fundraising Campaign Software 98

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

It may be that, for some organizations, a really large strategic planning process would include hiring an outside facilitator, doing a. Hiring an outside facilitator, spending six to nine months, and, you know, reviewing all of your programs. Well, does it reflect our mission? oh, thank you for that.

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 120

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. They can help with follow-up.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. Here’s what I discovered. (1) I’m looking forward to the book! (5)

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Resource Data Guide Chart 117

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

Next week, we'll conclude by talking about opportunities for institutional change with chapter 8, "Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly." But today, a conversation about the often sticky world of cultural interpretation with chapter 20, "A Jew Among Indians" How working outside of one's culture works."

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Culture Storytelling Challenge Museum 20

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. And so their job is a reflection of that. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. Okay, y’all.

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Management Work Video Slides 87

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. The Race exhibit served as a facilitation of potential dialogue based on a very simple finger-based exchange. What "no-tech" visitor actions or interrelations reflect your participatory goals?

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So that is what we explore in depth in our certificate in philanthropic psychology at our institute, how can we, through fundraising in the charitable sector, facilitate the love that people can have, not only for those easily lovable, but also for the people that might be most difficult for us to love. So here is an example from a donor.

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Video Children Donor Survey 110

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. For example, imagine you are creating a multi-chapter planning document. Our final task involved emailing a word document to the convenors. But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23