Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Perhaps you want a committee comprised solely of people with lived experience related to your nonprofit’s mission—i.e. people who have experienced houselessness or survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence. After all, general announcements may not reach the people and organizations that are important to your work.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? The Importance of Icebreakers: Getting To Know People in the Room.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. There were multiple areas where collaboration helped to ease the hardship. To help our operators survive, people worked 15-hour days. We organized the usual Zoom happy hours.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

This post is part of our continued efforts to share updates about internal and external efforts and outcomes to more directly invite accountability and collaboration in this work. While our complete evaluation is quite long, we’ve summarized reflections and commitments for 2022 from every area of our commitments in practice.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective. Reflection. So, you have to design for that.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Diversity highlights all the ways in which people differ; equity is the fair treatment, access, opportunity and advancement for all individuals; and inclusion is the act of creating environments where all individuals and groups can feel welcomed, respected, supported and valued to fully participate. Why does DEI matter?

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

When you’re starting an association, it’s usually in the service of a simple but powerful goal: bringing people together to advocate for their shared interests. Start by outlining your organizational structures. Plan to Change Your Plan When people make plans, the universe laughs. Don’t stop there!

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Collaborative Partnerships and Community Support (5 percent). Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. We adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. Teampedia -This collection includes many useful team building activities, icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that want to improve their collaborative processes, including meetings.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Partnering together, we collaborate to help people fulfill their passion to make a difference for others. With aligned missions–and wonderful people–we knew we wanted to collaborate with Qgiv! TAG: We have a vision of a world where possibilities are endless and reflect the best of who we are as humans.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Over 90% of the United States uses social media, including the people in your community. Transparency.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MGO is a big deal because it requires a unique skill set: A love for people A genuine dedication to your cause A good storyteller (and ‘question asker’!) They like people, are dedicated and enthusiastic about your cause, are great storytellers and listeners , and have a natural gift for raising money (of course!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Collaborative technology is incredible. It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. So I started using collaborative Google documents. And now the tone was…#TechFail!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Christian Kreutz has written up his reflections on the recent Web2.0fordev conference. How do I offer all these channels for collaboration and still filter what is important to me? A complete contrast to that was Damir Simunic, who talked about Collaboration on the Edge of Network. how to best combine all these web2.0

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

There is no shortage of highly talented leaders coming from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, and many of them lead from within the nonprofit sector. They do however face unique challenges, which are numerous and varied, reflecting the complex and evolving nature of the nonprofit sector as a whole.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Leaders are proponents of professional development, and the vast majority of them value shared leadership — meaning an approach that is both inclusive and collaborative, and shares decision making and authority with others throughout the organization. Is this a contradiction?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace – fast paced and heavy workloads – makes it nearly impossible to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it. For decades, even centuries, our view of leadership has been defined by top-down, hierarchical structures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. 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. Organization.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Instead editing is, or should be, a collaboration — where multiple perspectives combine to shape content so that it can better connect with audiences. Or do these opening lines just reflect your own process of writing your way to the thing you really wanted to say? Your audience, on the other hand, is mostly full of normal people.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

For these people working in faith-based organizations , regardless of denomination, this work can also take on a highly personal meaning, not only for themselves, but also for the donors they work alongside. “As In fact, he added, a strong moral compass is what draws many people to the sector.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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. This is genuinely a good thing. But this is what large software platforms do with nonprofit data.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

"Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

And I know for a lot of people, they start to get nervous and wonder if this approach is going to turn donors off? Other project management tools that I recommend and like to use are Asana or Trello or any other collaborative digital tool that might be useful and preferred by your team. Those are all legitimate concerns. Don’t be shy.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn. There are many learning theories and can be categorized in different ways: External: These theories take into account self-learning and learning in groups. This includes behaviorism and social learning or peer learning, communities of practice, and connectivism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Non-Participation 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Used as a facilitation technique in training can also help people generate ideas on how to apply the skills or concepts being taught. Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it. see above).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information." Today, millions of people are denied this basic human right because they are not literate.

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