Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. What was our learning?

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Savory’s mission to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands is fueled by the generous support of its donors, and recurring giving has become a crucial source of revenue in their goal to influence the management of 1 billion hectares by 2025. Access to Network Collaboration Platform.

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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Collaborate with peers : Engage with other fundraisers and organizations to share insights and best practices. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results. Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. Do you have a fundraising plan?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Many of these factors are beyond nonprofits’ ability and the global impact economy to influence. Large data platforms, especially those that make donations of products and services, are putting high-powered software into nonprofits’ hands at a fraction of the cost that would ordinarily reflect on commercial customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

This is using bogus social media metrics to translate into some value. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric. The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

Finally, they have collaboration and networking skills that are in their DNA that they can bring to the nonprofit workplace. But this takes a different kind of management approach , rather than organize them, nonprofits need to facilitate Millennials to organize themselves. (Cat Cat herding skills?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

I think that my reflections about Tweetcamp are an excellent fit to answer this question! One way to accomplish this is to ensure you have a diverse set of organizers - you will tap into networks that do, eventually, overlap, but the influencers you target will push a great diversity of participants towards the event.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This will influence how many volunteers you’ll need to recruit and train. You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. Collaborate with local businesses. Also, take the size of your event or volunteering task into account. Tap into schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline? View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify. On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. The week is built in partnership with over 35 collaborators. It also facilitates conversation with people who are not in the room. Last week, I was in NYC to deliver a keynote with Allison Fine about our book, The Networked Nonprofit. Room Layout is Important.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

These initiatives were credited with influencing the Italian parliament in 1991 to create specific legal forms or “social cooperatives.” They also facilitate the cross-sector collaboration of nonprofits, governmental agencies, and corporations. Defourny et al.,

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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. And giving makes me feel good. This all works well for psychology of collective influence which is an important part of Facebook application design. We've raised $1, 206 to help children in Cambodia.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2012

Collaboration among nonprofit organizations is near to becoming a necessity. 1 Cooperation has proven to be efficient in enduring through meager means, 2 and expectation among donors reflects this philosophy. 3 However, inter-organizational collaboration is not a mere exercise in sustainability. As part of a.

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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. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. .” ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes END-OF-YEAR EVENT FUNDRAISING The final quarter of the year unfolds with a blend of reflection and anticipation. Traditional Events Traditional year-end fundraising events, such as galas, are meant to celebrate your hard work, reflect on your impact, and thank your donors and sponsors.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Traditional year-end fundraising events, such as galas, are meant to celebrate your hard work, reflect on your impact, and thank your donors and sponsors. Just like for your typical gala you’ll want to recruit inspiring guest speakers, performers, and influencers. We’re sharing ideas and resources on event fundraising for 2021.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. The most important way for people to collaborate is face to face, so we have a number of ways that we convene women who are doing this work on various different levels. We do it in a number of ways. It was really tremendous.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Facilitation: The Secret Sauce of Participatory Processes Especially when it comes to participatory decision-making, we believe that a skilled facilitator is essential. The role of strategic facilitation of decision-making in participatory philanthropy is often unrecognized and underappreciated.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. Next is we want people who we can partner with.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. TikTok influencer. Y’all are in for a super awesome treat over the next hour or so. Ice cream shop.

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EveryAction

APRIL 13, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here! Enter: Planned Parenthood’s National Volunteer Program (NVP!)

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