Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Second, we would focus on taking the campaign to off-line events as much as possible to facilitate meaningful connections between the online and offline world. I’ll be sure that Rob sees your comments as well! What factors contributed to the success?

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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 27, 2012

The book’s co-authors, Beth Kanter and KD Paine will facilitate an updated of the original poetry-slam session with the same four nonprofit leaders about they have used networked strategies and measurement to improve results and transform failure into success. If you are proposing a panel, leave a comment.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 60

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). Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. 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

OCTOBER 11, 2009

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. Retweeting is boring.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ).

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Feeding America also tracks conversions for donors using Google Analytics so they can follow the path of the donor – from a like or comment on Facebook to online donation form. “It is still a little clunky and requires work but that information is very valuable. Have questions about social media measurement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. We support it, guide it.". .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

After the second thread , Steve wrote an incredible post about blog community facilitation learning. I asked him some questions about connections between offline/online communities and how to encourage non-bloggers into a blogging community. His response: Steve answered my questions both in a comment and back over at his blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Because the difference isn’t in using the tools per se, we all have the same functionality to upload, tag, comment, etc. In that example, it would be difficult for Jane to really approach using Flickr from a different perspective than how she is already using it personally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities. Steve posted a comment with some tips. I asked if there were a set of best practices or design principles in facilitating blog communities. Steve has shared his learnings on facilitating a blog community.

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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. Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. Alex is a great example of a change blogger. What's that? I guess I'm a change blogger too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

1 : Blogging Community/Community Blog - Basic Definitions This post was my reflection after taking a fabulous online workshop with Nancy White that included a link to Steve Shu's post and a question about "Can Community Blogs be facilitated?" If you've been following the conversation and want to say something, here's your chance.

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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 you receive a comment, acknowledge it, even if your reply is brief. Respond to comments.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I heard some genuine concerns from some Federal staff (eg Forest Service) about the risk of them being swamped by public input/comments online if they move to make rulemakings or decision-making proceedings more open for participation. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. Maxine Teller. These are ?software

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

He asked the question – is organizing the same whether it is done online or offline? Community Organizers work with and develop new local leaders, facilitating coalitions and assisting in the development of campaigns. And then, broke the 3 goals down into offline/online tactics: Offline. Start small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another. The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke. We don't know exactly what the Net??

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

but there wasn’t an offline space for that. Your comments are close to our heart – as an institutions we make decisions every day about how people are going to engage. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. It was a beautiful exhibition, but no one was playing it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo helps connects people with issues and organizations on the first rung of the ladder of engagement, but the challenge will be how to cultivate relationships to bring people up that ladder to higher levels of engagement and involvement – from following and connecting to making donations to making change offline. What is Jumo?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

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. I was networking weaving between the offline/online. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There are offline ways to do it. Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Do you moderate comments or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

I agree with her points: Causes facilitates the spread of your organization's message. I'll boil it down to " Causes is A Friending Tool, Not A Fundraising Tool." Credit to Steve MacLaughlin for that) Go read it and come back. The nonprofit doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting. I agree that's not true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

I wondered outloud in a comment. So, the flow or sequence would go something like this: * Read poems by poet (offline in books) * Talk about the poems with peers facilitated by instructor (face-to-face). Isn't it wonderful how work avoidance sparks our creative juices. " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Not only should the members of your audience be able to share your content with the click of a button, they should also be able to add their own comments to what they share. It invites its super fans to join a private Facebook group, with useful information and a facilitated discussion. Engage Offline. Brand it and test it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Please share your own in the comments section. Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. Just as in offline circumstances, online users learn from their peers in terms of how to interact with social objects. allowing users to add documents, comments, blog or discussion posts, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. t have a habit of reading on the web.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

but there wasn't an offline space for that. Your comments are close to our heart - as an institutions we make decisions every day about how people are going to engage. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. We wanted to created a space where people could get together and talk about games.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

But with so many elements to modern fundraising—both online and offline—it can be tough to keep up. Use QR Codes QR codes became a lot more popular during the pandemic, and they can be a great way for your nonprofit to easily shepherd offline donors to your online donation pages. Make every stamp count!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Share in the comments! Forums, and Comments, and Threads, Oh My! This session is a facilitated discussion for community organizers, builders, and advocates. Where will you be at NTC? 13NTCforum 10:30 a.m. - on Friday, April 12, 2013 Presenters: Michael DeLong, Laura Norvig, Danielle Siembieda, Location: Marquette V.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m really interested in the work Community Shares is doing and the direction they are headed with this project as it seems very aligned with many of my own feelings: technology should be used to help, facilitate, and empower the change communities already want to be making. The time to stand aside and let the comments roll in is near!

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