Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Subsequent action steps are grouped according to your level of fundraising development: Getting Started, Advancement (somewhere further along), and Going from Good to Great. Collaborate with peers : Engage with other fundraisers and organizations to share insights and best practices. The post starts off with general guidance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

The process was a collaboration in itself, with TSNE MissionWorks , and Essential Partners serving as co-hosts. An advisory group and planning group gave crucial input about the strategy and tactics for this event. Both groups can help by: . Creating clear definitions of key terms pertaining to data and evaluation.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. And that definitely includes all your staff. Why Successful Leaders Frame Culture As a Management System , Jason Korman, Gapingvoid Culture Design Group.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2009

I’m really looking forward to the 2 June event for London Net Tuesday where David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and I will facilitate a new iteration of the Social by Social Game! To RSVP to the June event, visit the London Net Tuesday group here. RSVP: London Net Tuesday group. See you on 2 June for London Net Tuesday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One that I was not familiar with it is called CLEAR goals are defined as: Collaborative – achieved in partnership with others. Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it. How To Collect Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. Flickr Image – ImageGroup. Today, this view is fundamentally changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I've mostly used wikis as a personal portfolio and have participated in community or collaborative wikis facilitated by others. What's nice is the initial group who will help is more wiki comfortable than average, if not extremely comfortable. Been pausing over the purist definition slide from his slide deck.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Those links are to definitions!) Tweetup used a blog to keep people updated, a Facebook group to gather interested participants, and a Twitter account for communications. The organizers decided to meld a bit of facilitation with complete open space organizing. This past Saturday, I participated in an experiment: Tweetcamp !

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Also, can form factions of different community boards representing different groups (i.e. So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. We always had a group of 15-50 people together for intense brainstorming. Low on friction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

Yesterday, I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens. We started with mindfulness from Chris Block, improvisation from David Havens , and Heather and I co-facilitated a session on networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

There is much excitement and interest in measuring/tracking/using data in real time to shift course on emergent, collaborative, and innovative efforts. Also, how we facilitate our networks and sharing control to solve complex problems. “ What does strategy and how to scale mean to different generations? “

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. There are definitely some shades of gray. We worked in small groups by network purpose. It isn't black and white.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. However, very few people use these terms precisely and almost nobody agrees on the exact definition of these terms. The Second C: Collaboration. Used precisely, these terms can mean very different things.

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JULY 8, 2021

Group Collaboration with Feedback. A collaborative assessment involves learners completing a task alongside their peers and receiving feedback on their personal efforts within the group. Of the various assessment methods in this list, group collaboration with feedback is easily the least quantitative method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. Flexibility.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. Also, the caliber of other workshop facilitators was definitely a plus! All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. After each participant selected an experiment, we grouped them together and had them work together on setting it up. I did floating consults.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Bristol Strategy Group – Strategic Planning & Board Development. The Alford Group – Corporate Partnerships. Your finances are one area of your operations where you definitely don’t want to leave things up to chance. Bristol Strategy Group: Top Consulting Firm for Strategic Planning & Board Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. BTW, she says that I " dropped science " but she means the 1st definition, not the fourth! (BTW,

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

B: There are a lot of good systems out there, and we actually collaborate with some of them on some research projects. That was definitely a confidence builder for us! Q: What makes Bloomerang different? You don’t often hear that from competing businesses and whatever space or sector they operate in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

But the current supply of volunteers is definitely higher than the demand by the large majority of non-profits. In a socially distanced world, virtual tours of non-profits, lunch and learns with community leaders, book clubs, or movies with facilitated discussion can strengthen that foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

.   What is interesting is that nearly half of the biggest social networking sites are also among the fastest growing - and they are all most popular among age groups over 25. Gartner VP recently published a report from analyst Andrea Di Maio, who says citizen social networks will complement, and may replace, some government functions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues. They work in collaboration with the communications team. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market. The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact. Why did this happen?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. It is also a story about blogging improvisation, cross-blog conversations, listening, and entries into online collaborative writing and informal learning with professional colleagues. (I'm hoping to also meet Nick Booth and maybe Steve Bridger too!)

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. See [link] for a similar definition.) So What Exactly Is a Chart of Accounts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. By having the whole group understand at the beginning that there are different levels and how they might react to the material. I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants). It has 400 members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2006

The NTEN Affinity Group will be called NpTechHelp, verified by e-mail originating from a domain run by a 501-c3. The other concern that was brought up as the artificial distinctions or definitions of vendor versus consultant versus nonprofit staff person. Worse, we don???t I applaud that! Here are my observations and suggestions.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

We believe that, like the soup kitchen, our overall impact could be strengthened through a better understanding of who we serve individually and collectively, and what that may imply about how we can better collaborate to meet the needs of those we serve. Of course, collaboration is tough work. Did we succeed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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. by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0. He selected some definitions from the Internet. They replaced the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2011

You can definitely read it without that background, but you might want to go back afterward and look at “ Are You Tapping Third-Order Engagement? “ and ” Re-inventing Collaboration: CRM as Social Technology ” for more details on “orders of engagement.” Customers Engage Customers Through their Social Graph.

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