Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. A team culture that prioritizes collaboration and excellence. ½ How does your organization’s leadership model and support it? Some of our most popular perks include: Accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year. 5 floating holidays and 7 fixed holidays per year. Have story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Trainer models the steps to the three others, slowly – narrating what they are doing. Next, the other two participants take turns being the trainer or the student.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2015

Flickr Photo by Celestine Chua. It is a leadership professional development project for emerging leaders in nonprofits in collaboration with Third Plateau funded by the Packard Foundation. For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new project that will launch next month.

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MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Most of the content was (and is) user generated.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Flickr photo: Toban Black. As an Executive Director who tries to collaborate as often as possible, I know the stumbling blocks only too well, but we can all take some small steps to do some small sharing, and start to transform our sector's culture. One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom?

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

Flickr photo: Chris.Corwin Nothing gets done without leadership. The old style of IT management was a command-and-control model. The technology part of collaboration is pretty amazing at this point. Leaders are the ones who find the peaks we need to climb amongst those clouds. When we get lost, leaders help us find our way.

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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. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. 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

JULY 14, 2010

Many of this latter group of are veterans of what Extraordinaries’ Jacob Colker calls the “Command & Control Model” – programs that seek to control the relationship of the volunteer with the organization and/or cause. Collaboration could take place on virtual or crowd-sourced projects. Orientation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. charity: water explains clearly on their homepage the three things that make them different from other nonprofits: their 100% model, their emphasis on proving where donations go with GPS tracking and their collaborations with local partners in the countries to which they bring clean water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

While I wouldn't know an API from Ape if it stood right in front of me beat its chest, but I have seen the results of open APIs in social media apps like Flickr. The openness sparks creative solutions, collaborations, accelerates partnerships, and sharing. Plaxo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, blogging, forums???and open API???

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APRIL 17, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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JANUARY 21, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Collaboration. You need IT folks who understand how data is structured, what queries are possible, how data modeling works. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

An interview Mari Velasco, Lorene Staka, and Joanna Eng of the Idealist Photos in flickr The Idealist , a project of Action Without Borders ,connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a better world. The key with all of these new web tools is that they help us make our work more collaborative, help our network come alive!

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

flickr: Horia Varlan Like all organizations, the staff at NTEN does our best to stay in tune with our awesome community; but every once in a while we find ourselves in a bubble or at least not fully understanding what new decisions will look like from the outside.

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JULY 15, 2009

Flickr Photo: Tech Writer Boy Here at NTEN World Headquarters, we simply could not live without Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Code is consumed on a one to many model, and it's a pay for use subscription. So, SaaS is almost always Cloud, but the Cloud encompasses much more than SaaS.

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JULY 11, 2005

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. We had several community discussions about the competition disincentivizing collaboration--the money sent a contradictory signal to all our talk about sharing. or to start their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

Via Twitter, Steve Ames, of RiverArts described more a " cloud computing " model of how they work (a topic that Marnie Webb addressed at the TechSoup Global Summit a few weeks ago). Understand how to have influence via electronic participation and collaboration. We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc. So, I'm giving it away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You extend networking weaving skills by using a peer learning model not a traditional training model. Go 5:49 in the clip) Source: Flickr Photos. She talked about the importance of online collaboration and project management tools as a way to support those self-organized actions. She used an image of a single tree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. Mapping is the process of developing a map of all things you are doing to generate conversation, sharing, and collaboration as a social media maker. The emphasis is on collaboration, sharing, and conversation. (If A logic model. (I UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Cool Factor : Personal PSAs , 24 Hours, and Collaboration. I see this site growing as the use of mobile increases, but it’s a great first step and a good role model for other government agencies. Flickr photo credit: Milica Sekulic by CC Attribution 2.0 Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

The envisioned twenty-first-century model, however, is more level. Of course we’ve got a Twitter feed , a YouTube channel for our videos, Facebook pages , and Flickr accounts (we’ve even got a set of images for our just opened exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists ). Collaborator. Museums are changing. in one of its cases.

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MARCH 6, 2019

letting museum visitors contribute and collaborate in museums), I now see this as a crucial issue also for more democratic and inclusive practice (i.e. But the companies that run YouTube, Flickr, and other major Web 2.0 Every time you post a photo on Flickr, you give its owner, Yahoo!, sites have lots of power. Every Web 2.0

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