Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Responsive tech support.

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MAY 6, 2024

Be Proactive Smaller groups may view preventive maintenance as a luxury. An assessment can uncover hidden problems and opportunities. We uncover hidden problems and opportunities. It’s also a chance to adjust processes, staff skill sets, and align with the future road maps of your technology partners.”

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

For the most part, I agree with the way the crowds voted – but, given that people were able to submit and vote at the same time, it means some groups only submitted on the very last day, not leaving much time for votes. Collaboration via social media has enabled the program to come together and launch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. Why this resource?

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The group was excited, humble, and diverse, but 10 minutes into the talk I found myself getting more and more frustrated and confused (It probably did not help that I just finished reading an article called When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs ). The problem with minimalism has been studied by many designers.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

Or anything else with a center (read: core idea or problem) and shoots (related points to consider for that idea realization or problem solving). The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Also, can form factions of different community boards representing different groups (i.e. So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. We always had a group of 15-50 people together for intense brainstorming. Low on friction.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. Quite the opposite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2011

What I like most about this platform, although at times a little difficult to navigate, is the collaboration map. A group at Stanford University hopes the answer to both questions is yes. The Problem: A 1 in 20,000 Chance of Finding a Match. We’d love your ideas for solving this significant problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. For the past twenty years that I’ve been doing training, no matter what I usually get a group of participants who are mixed levels of experience and capacity. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

I follow a select group of people that give me the same access as following someone in every group. Strategically I am building a small, yet efficient, group that reaches out into the many diverse information pools I am interested in. One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Developing a clear map for the future now can help you create tangible benchmarks to achieve long-term goals. Will you train your entire staff or just a select group of individuals who will then share training documents with their teams? To do that, your nonprofit and your consultant may: Start a user testing group.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The power of social media in this context, “is in networks growing and collaborating, not silo-ing&# (@ amysampleward ) or “ connecting/leveraging/magnifying the work of people who’re already aware&# (@ HildyGottlieb ). Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. link] is a climate change wiki.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The Ushahidi platform was created and deployed by this group in about three days. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. The second exercise was done in small groups and a report the whole group answering the questions, “What are your hopes and fears for the program?”

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

For Zero1, an organization whose mission is at the intersection of art and technology, a tech-based approach to this problem makes perfect sense. A core group of interns assembled by Siembieda-Gribben will go on to develop the winning team's idea, using an API designed by Lift Projects for Zero1. A Community Comes Together.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2018

Consider these areas, and how incorporating some of these ways of thinking into your organization can inspire innovative solutions to old problems or challenges. Gary Bolles from Singularity University said it perfectly: “Only by having a diverse set of problem solvers will you solve the problems of tomorrow.” Be intentional.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Those of us who sell strategy services for a living tend to rely on the desire for measured approaches to big problems. Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. Online discussions?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Over the next 10 months, this diverse group of up-and-coming leaders will serve full-time at local nonprofit organizations and learn the skills to start careers in the nonprofit sector. Our problems are breeding grounds for solutions.”. Stage 6: Collaboration and Breaking Barriers. Stage 2: Hearing the Call.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Generator participants think collaboratively about obstacles and ways to accelerate their organization's impact. Range is a map-based app that shows where youth can get free summer meals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Icebreakers can be done as pairs, small groups, and full group – and you can use a combination. The most important thing is that it has to relate to the content in some way. The KSTool Kit has a list of icebreakers and I’ve used many of them, but in this session I will model one or two.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s also a chance to adjust processes, staff skill sets, and align with the future road maps of your technology partners. We uncover hidden problems and opportunities.” Are collaboration tools working effectively? Using data to create scenarios and simulations is another powerful problem-solving tool. Kevin is right.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! American Humanics: An Elite Group Research Friday: Do you feel the force of the demo.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Those of us who sell strategy services for a living tend to rely on the desire for measured approaches to big problems. Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. Online discussions?

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Two weeks ago Forum One's Seattle office convened a group of Global Health web communicators and talked in depth about using social media to build connections and awareness. Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Higher ed is the largest group represented with thousands of professionals joining from private and public 2-year and 4-year institutions. You’re guaranteed to (virtually) collaborate with peers from departments across campus, including advancement, marketing, financial aid, academic leadership and more. Map out a session grid.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms. Supporting Health and Wellness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline?

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I was impressed by the number of developers who came out to support the idea that improved technology tools could help deliver aid more quickly, coordinate large numbers of people, allow for information transparency among aid groups, and potentially forecast humanitarian disasters to avoid huge loss of life. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. Volunteers in one region could follow the twitter stream or hashtags from other groups and iterate off their progress almost as if they were all in one room. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want all of the above on a map. Several maps! Custom maps, plus Google Maps, and Yahoo too! There are hundreds of regional Drupal user groups. That obscure problem you're trying to solve? Open source fosters community collaboration. We want thumbs up and thumbs down, and images. And videos!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! The biggest group, however, are the 18,351 §501(c)3 public charities.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. Volunteers in one region could follow the twitter stream or hashtags from other groups and iterate off their progress almost as if they were all in one room. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact. That group used our gap analysis exercise to find an opportunity to give refugees on the move a chance to add value to local communities while maintaining the dignity of earning an income and doing the work they engaged in at home. Know your role.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Assist with problem-solving. Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2015

TechSoup has put together a collection of nearly 80 great productivity apps that are available from our donor partners to communicate, collaborate, manage files and data, and more on the go. Box offers its content management and collaboration service via its app for all three major mobile platforms, plus a handy text editor for Android.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Likewise, questions that we use internally to foster learning and collaboration with colleagues and across departments are often about more than gathering specific data points. Avoiding Excess Asking too many questions and collecting too much data without ever using it is a problem in grantmaking. What is the history in the question?

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