Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. Photo by Teddy Llovet.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

We now have over 50 cities globally hosting monthly events with many more getting started. NetSquared’s hosted Challenges for 3 years now, surfacing hundreds of innovative technologies for social impact. I’m also a contributor to Socialbrite, NTEN, Women Who Tech and other industry leading collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. What Happened on Give Local America Day? How did community foundations support their nonprofit partners when things got bad?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The workshop was hosted by the Packard Foundation and Monitor Institute. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). You can find the workshop materials here.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What do you get when you combine around the table with virtual collaboration? It embraced a truly hybrid model; that is, it facilitated real-time participation from every attendee, rather than just adding a digital component to an in-person event. Common Data Models. From In-person to Virtual, to…Both?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. to developing recommendations collaboratively. EPA has also apparently trained 60 people to be trainers in online collaboration. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. News: InformationWeek ? to information exchange.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Through the Open Collective Foundation , we are supporting the solidarity economy , with over 100 mutual aid projects and over 300 hosted groups, and through Open Source Collective we host nearly 3,000 open source technology communities. And those fiscal hosts sustain Open Collective, funding technological improvements.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena. In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. Of course, collaboration is tough work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

Although the board facilitates the programme, it is the young people themselves who run the weekly meetings and activities independently. This is where cloud technology can help: by removing geographical barriers to collaboration and making large volumes of knowledge easy to capture and share across vast networks of people.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Definitely, my favorite thing because I’m the host. They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. You know, pre-COVID, we really encourage board members to host a parlor meeting in their home or business.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

I appreciate this opportunity to talk about ClientTrack and its ability to promote effective collaborations. Optimizes collaborations within and between organizations. How does CT define “collaboration&# and what is so important about it? And that’s what effective collaborations among community providers do.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

On Wednesday, March 16th, New York Nonprofit Media will host Nonprofit FundCon bringing together fundraising and development executives from nonprofits across New York to discuss how to create a campaign and raise money. Fundraising is all about creating trust and building relationships. Is your nonprofit optimizing your fundraising strategy?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Rachel Weidinger, Upwell Developing a High Touch, Human Platform for Collaboration At Upwell , we’re inventing a new way to work together. Attention on ocean issues is the currency of our collaboration. So we tried a different tack.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Supporters of DR’s program help in many ways: from sponsoring a child or restoration home, funding specific projects, hosting jewelry parties or purchasing handcrafted jewelry made by our rescue girls on their online shop. Liberty Asia is dedicated to making world class technology available to anti-trafficking nonprofit organizations in Asia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. This year’s work will build on this past year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

"To us, it's really about collaboration. This was a collaboration among several organizations, A Single Drop, Crabgrass, ProNet Accra, and Women's Earth Alliance. We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. To us, it's really about collaboration.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Program officers and staff spend long hours shepherding grantees through this complex process, collecting and reviewing endless pages of documentation, and debating the merits of projects with a host of reviewers and committees. The process emphasizes administration and paperwork over engagement and relationship. Solicit and act on feedback.

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EveryAction

APRIL 13, 2023

Here are some key strategies NVP used: Hosting weekly mobilization calls to welcome all volunteers into NVP and ensure people are getting plugged into immediate actions in less than 24 hours of event attendance. Volunteers self-selecting into text banking, phone banking, social media, community mobilization, and/or storytelling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

It's all about collaboration. I don't think we learn very much about collaboration in our culture. How to have better practices in communication, and I think one of the things we do at Art and Action is model collective leadership. I think some people are modeling that quite well. How to have relationships.

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