Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Cultivating this discipline of planning can be greatly eased and enhanced by engaging your stakeholders in collaborative inquiry, defined by Jennifer Donahoo as a process that offers participants a systematic way to explore issues and determine resolutions through shared inquiry, reflection, and dialogue. Collecting the data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

“Proposition 22: The normal expectation ought to be that success will be very difficult to achieve in cross-sector collaborations.” - John Bryson, et al., "The The Design and Implementation of Cross-Sector Collaborations". Collaboration is emerging as a popular vehicle to solve complicated problems that our communities face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. You don't get as much control over the look and feel of your mind map as you would with say MindManager, although you can import an MindManager file. But, you can create a collaborative mindmap online using this application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it. He asked to reflect on our network map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse. A year-long program with an intention to ignite new collaborations across the County to build a stronger, more connected community. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings. Meet them here.

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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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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As seen with the importance of creating a marketing strategy, mapping out a content strategy allows you to identify what’s working and what needs further attention down the road. . That’s because your site is a direct reflection of your brand. Payment facilitators. But are you paying attention to your site’s design ? .

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. We created a network map. What opportunities for reciprocity?

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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? This was designed as a peer learning activity – so it was the participants who were mostly the presenters.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. Stringing Connections , in which visitors could describe relationships between works in the exhibition and make them visible by tying pieces of yarn between them on a large map of the gallery. These two projects were always facilitated.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. I did a presentation on social media and nonprofits in the afternoon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. This would enable people to be able to map target media, meme creation, consumption and sharing habits. 4) Conversational Collaboration Win-win initiatives that open a dialogue toward reaching a broader goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. It is also a story about blogging improvisation, cross-blog conversations, listening, and entries into online collaborative writing and informal learning with professional colleagues.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." Using this open source collaborative platform, the Manhattan-based nonprofit has so far engaged more than 600 communities in 55 countries in creating citizen maps to catalyze new environmental projects, large and small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

An internal focus for organizations to capture knowledge and support collaboration and go external. Facilitating people who receive organization??? Facilitating people who receive organization???s March of Dimes Nancy White reflects on the project in response to postings by me and Lisa from Rherotic of Me.

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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. To achieve this at scale is an operational challenge, particularly without the right tools to communicate, reflect, and learn.

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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. This type of event is less collaborative than a video conferencing app like Zoom. Utilize Google Maps or Map My Run , and encourage participants to share theirs, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise. My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. Del.icio.us

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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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

This year, we will complete the development of the first two technologies—the recording mechanism and the collaborative mapping tools. So the value of the mechanisms is to let people find and reflect on what natural heritage is—how it can be defined, represented, and shared. There are two strategies.

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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. And so their job is a reflection of that. How do your individual goals map to those organizational goals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. We wanted to continue to play this role on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. They think about the network structure, evaluation, communication, training, opportunities, and reflection.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. But it's hard to explain to visitors who haven't played Apples to Apples, and if there is not a gallery host to facilitate, this one often sits unplayed. A DIY wedding! DIY Wedding Chapel.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. For example, a "voting tools" session facilitated by WeVote generated discussion among participants on the barriers to voting and how to reduce them. Mapping Oakland's public bathrooms (or lack thereof).

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