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Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Research shows that interactive content earns more engagement and twice as many conversions as static content. Tell compelling stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. In fact, I discovered his post via Facebook where I left a comment on his note and followed the links to his blog post. His questions are: How can blog conversations foster a cloud and not just a hub and spokes effect?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. Stay tuned for more conversations about topics ranging from microvolunteering to disaster response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Photo by Laughing Squid. Pictures are great conversation starters. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both! Note: this feature does not function with groups of 250 members or more. ) Consider the following: What are the deeper conversations your group seems inclined to have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. One of the modules is on meetings.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. Relevant: It meets the target audiences needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. It also makes it easy for attendees to follow the conversation thread and participate whether they are or in the room or following from afar. What is a #HashTag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship. Watech4good Summit.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Thanks to all those who participated or followed along, and to those who will join the conversation now! What makes a Twitter chat different than a blog post, for example, is that the conversation is 1. A blog post has, like this, one person writing it and sharing it at the end for comments. real time, and 2. co-created.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

My conversations so far for February are all focused on the role of nonprofits online. I would LOVE for you to get in on the conversations, too! I think it’s an interesting topic and wanted to continue the conversation here with you! Join the conversation on the SSIR blog! Standford Social Innovation Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

Photo by Ceclcia Aros. I loathe the cloying mock humility of the twitterverse (“so honored that @important person says I am an important person”), so it is with some reservation that I write that the comments on my recent SSIR post about ‘scrappy and strategic’ have just blown me away. Please check out the full comment stream.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

If you’ve never organized a tweet chat, the steps outlined below provide the guide you need: Choose your topic and decide if this will be a general conversation or a training discussion. On the day of the tweet chat, sign into TweetChat.com for the conversation. Photo: josie4628.

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MARCH 28, 2011

The conversation touched on how letting yourself be vulnerable to share your own story can give people in your community permission and courage to share their own important stories. This conversation also led to a discussion about the role of anonymity in community and storytelling. Photo Credit: Paul-W Over to You.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Photo by Solarnu. We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization. We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization.

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JUNE 9, 2011

John has commented on your Wall." Ask them to comment on a recent conversation (list links to a few recent ones). Message 2 : One week after joining: "Add a photo to your profile.". Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. Today, we had an amazing conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." As part of effective social media strategy development, the internal conversation must take place. The conversation is the first step.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo by Dwinton. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? What did you learn from the conversation? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

In a six month period ending last month, 655 comments were submitted to this boa rd. For comparison, the most commented-upon museum blog, Botany Photo of the Day (according to Jim Spadaccini and Seb Chan’s recent report ) received 128 comments in a one month period. ) How many comments just say, “I love this museum!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Flickr Photo by Marin Labar. I just finished the first day of a training on Network Effectiveness for Packard Grantees facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute. But many networks need a private place or password protected place to have conversations online. Leave a comment! Innovation, creativity, momentum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. It’s the conversations and depth of relationships that matter. That is a quote from co-panelist Matthew Dyer from the Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus who is commenting on the kind of people who should be social media managers. Counting the number of tweets or Fans defeats the purpose of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. Beth asked me to elaborate.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. These two projects were always facilitated.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. If they are civil, allow comments that are critical of your organization. If the conversation becomes too heated, you can always take it over to email. Respond to comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Photo by clyatt.jasper ( Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 This is about facilitating discovery, nurturing trust, sharing experiences, and light-weight focused request/responses.”. Here’s just four key conversations that I thought had deep significance for the social change community: (CAUTION: F-bombs below. ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Photo by Darren Hester. Learn more about the conversation here. The comments of Sonal Shah (I wasn’t there at SoCap, but Beth Kanter was ) resonate as well with our own work and approach to balancing the rigor of evaluation along with simultaneous commitment to continuous improvement.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. One of our research volunteers, Sangye Hawke, blew me away when she posted a photo on Facebook of the board game she's developing about the restoration work we're doing at historic Evergreen Cemetery. Here's a picture of it in action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Flickr Photo by Eqqman. One of my favorite things about writing a blog, are the conversations in the comments and sidebars (private email conversation). Does the organization have processes that enable rapid adjustment strategies based on evolving conversations. Interactions that lead towards a goal are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. rah rah session - it is going to provide an introduction and conversation starters to help the people in the room decide whether or not Web2.0 The point is the conversation is important! They need to know what questions to ask and what conversations to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. In 2005, at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, there was a flap about the backchannel because the conversation crossed a line. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders. What did you learn that from your experience that you apply to starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders? I got inspired by this post and left a quick comment, but then I reading comments by others and folks who wrote the answers on their blogs.

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