Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! Our first session will set the stage and context for the practices of “Impact Leadership.”

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The goal of these activities is to help form strong relationships to help facilitate honest and impactful decisions in the board room. . Fridman asks, “ Do you know where the most honest, insightful and productive board conversations historically took place pre-Covid? As veteran organizational strategist and author Nanette R.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To ensure effective project communication, keep in mind these best practices for groups communicating in these virtual channels. Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations. Keep conversations about a project to the main channels of your workplace communication system (Slack/Teams/etc.)

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Always developing a meeting agenda, sharing it with attendees beforehand, and explicitly asking them to review it and note any questions or comments. Kicking off the conversation. Just remember to set a hard time limit on the kickoff portion of the meeting to avoid having it overtake the entire conversation.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Here are practical tips on how to engage your aging donors and encourage planned gtiving. Practical tips to encourage planned giving Here are 13 practical tips on how to relate to and engage older donors and encourage planned giving. Please share in the comments section below. We’re all aging, right? Find out how!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

While we've used traditional research methods, including a survey of 720 Challenge Participants and interviews, we are facilitating “Conversational Case Studies” that explore best practices in integrating social media with fundraising campaigns by the America’s Giving Challenge (AGC) winners.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 2, 2020

Using Nimble AMS, your association can use Salesforce Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff. So, just as you might comment on someone’s photo in your Facebook feed, you can comment on the status of an event registration record. Blog] Practical tips to prepare your association for virtual work.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! Reading these comments, I felt terrible. I am a member of the Technology of Participation network of facilitators. This enables the facilitator to focus on the flow of the conversation or planning process.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Practice your pitch – Gain confidence through preparation and repetition. Tools that allow participants to create individual or team fundraising pages and share updates on social media facilitate this. Have open conversations and provide psychological support. Optimize your content and donation pages for mobile users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

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. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. If your panel isn’t on the list, add a link and title in the comments. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2015

We learn so much about professional practice from having honest and candid conversations. Eugene is always thought in the way he designs and facilitates activities to bring people together to learn from one other. Next, Eugene facilitated a fishbowl conversation with Janne. Please share in the comments.

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Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

The agendas you create for your board meetings will act as the roadmap for your meetings, letting everyone know what will be discussed and how they can best contribute to the conversation. They can come with insights and comments, rather than having to go over each document as a group and wasting everyone’s time brainstorming on the spot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

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. There is lots of advice out there about how to design and facilitate meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To facilitate the use of that data, the city hosted a contest to motivate the development community to make use of more than 100 types of datasets it had released — everything from aerial photographs and business licenses to parking meter information, liquor license applications, and street-sweeping routes. Here in the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Thank you to those who have already voted or commented! Please support me by voting and commenting here. Outside of NetSquared, I am a trainer, blogger and facilitator as well as the co-author of Social by Social: a practical guide to using technology for social impact. Leave a comment on the application here.

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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. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

While many nonprofit professionals talked about how their nonprofits were pressure cookers, Gabriela Schneider, Chief Communications Officer at Issue One, wrote in a comment how grateful she was that her organization promoted a culture of “we care” or wellbeing for its employees. Gabriela graciously agreed to share her experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

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. Photo by Mansikka. What is a #HashTag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. We had additional volunteers who were curating content and monitoring conversation via social media. Our Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you. Harold Jarche (Click for Original Article).

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Workshops, ideation sessions, and other conversations with stakeholders are how we draw out, understand, systemize, and ultimately incorporate the heart and soul of any organization or effort into a strategy or tool. Facilitation. When facilitating the session, keep your role in mind.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I practically commute to Union Station anyway. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. Leave a comment » I love it. Stop by and say hi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix. Here’s a summary: There was a range of practice for using data and measurement to improve social media and demonstrate impact: Crawl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

mostly about the process and mechanics of blog conversations. Are blog conversations as satisfying, rich, or stimulating as other methods? Can blog communities be facilitated? The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation. " and- " What does cross blog conversation look like ?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Develop a Strategy. Let’s begin.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

John has commented on your Wall." Ask them to comment on a recent conversation (list links to a few recent ones). Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses. Facebook is the noodgiest site on the Internet. You have a friend request."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations. Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content. I’m taking ten minutes every morning to practice some visual recording skills like drawing to create my “3 Most Important Things for Today List.”

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

I went to a morning session called " Digital Youth and Analogue Adults " facilitated by Garham Heartley which includes a panel of digital natives talking about what young employees should expect of their nonprofit employer as it relates to technology. Twitter Comment ). Twitter Comment ). Twitter Comment ).

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