sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

It can contribute to exchanges and interactions that are at the heart of nonprofit network building. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Registration Leadership Impact Change 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. I designed an icebreaker that allow us collectively to build an network. We created a network map.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

However, it is a favorite photo from another recent Tech Networks of Boston event. It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. Speaking with each other on a regular basis.

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Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we launched the Playbook Web Site that offers grab and go leadership development and culture change activities for nonprofit and emerging leaders.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

Her report touched on the need for sector collaboration, celebrating mistakes and failures, and innovation. He spoke about networked mindsets and how to work across sectors. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques.

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Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

According to Frumkin (2002), nonprofit organizations are “ideal vehicles for foraging networks of weak ties that link people together.” He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.”

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE. I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months. This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US.

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Learning Pakistan Haiti Facilitation 92

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. They can help spread the word through their own networks. Collaborate with AAPI leaders to ensure your programming is authentic and resonates well. Aim to create an inclusive, welcoming atmosphere that brings together diverse AAPI communities and builds bonds.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. That you know your community.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The Second C: Collaboration. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

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? Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. It is basically a pause.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Bridged groups are useful if you want people to collaborate on a more inclusive vision of the future. Networking opportunities. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. If you are building something new and want people's ideas, go for bridging. Child care.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We’re bringing together bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners for three days of learning, sharing, and networking. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network / New Orleans, LA / Less than $800. Health / #GIHac / @GIHealth. Mar 10 - 11.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 85

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. It will be interesting to see how people react to the conference and whether they feel valued or put upon in the participatory sessions. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. I’ll be co-teaching with Mary Joyce, Jessica Dheere and Mohamad Najem and working with an amazing group of people from six Arab countries. To Be Successful You Need both A Network Mindset and Networking Tools. It is a collaborative way of working.

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Story Network Examples Action 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. Networking Insight Blog. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Outreach for your program or to connect with potential supporters.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

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. But now, I'm looking at the story of visitors pointing in Race in a different way: as a low-tech example of a socially networked platform. Visitors see things that intrigue them, point at them, and other visitor look.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? So when do wikis work?

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. Ushahidi’s board , like its staff , work together virtually across many time zones using different online tools for meetings and collaborative work. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya.

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Kenya Network NGO Nonprofit 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.” Training and Peer Learning :: skill-building, knowledge sharing, and network building. This one is for social media.

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Journal Change Learning Technology 101