Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day.

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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. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Corporations use these contests to engage potential customers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Community manager members were invited to ask their most pressing questions and share their best practices. The talk, facilitated by online community veteran Scott Moore , delved into various facets of online community. Crowdsource content and give your members a reason to show off to one another by creating contests.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. For the basics, you’ll need a dedicated peer-to-peer fundraising platform and a group of volunteers who are passionate about your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services.

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See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The theme of this year’s contest is From the Ground Up: Using Technology to Engage Constituents and Make the World a Better Place. The finalists will be shown on www.DoGooder.tv

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. As Beck puts it: I think there’s something human in sheet music, something that doesn’t depend on technology to facilitate it—it’s a way of opening music up to what someone else is able to bring to it.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hold a contest with rewards for Best Dressed or Best Background. For performances, your best bet is to use a live-streaming platform such as Twitch (free to use). You can make it a contest with prizes, or you can use this time to cook to feed the hungry together or make holiday cards for kids in shelters.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Hold a contest with rewards for Best Dressed or Best Background. For performances, your best bet is using a livestreaming platform such as Twitch (free to use). You can make it a contest with prizes, or you can use this time to cook to feed the hungry together or make holiday cards for kids in shelters.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Customizing your thank-you emails based on donor selections is a breeze on the Qgiv platform! Or a baking contest? If your town is famous for its strawberries, for example, you could consider having a contest where cooks’ recipes must feature that ingredient. Chili cook-offs are a classic. But what about a BBQ cook-off?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

In addition to your consulting practice and the book, can you tell me a little more about yourself. So, for example, while a rational reason for breastfeeding might be that it provides beneficial nutrients and antibodies, a campaign to promote the practice might be more effective if it builds on a woman???s official???

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Doing so meant we could raise awareness very quickly (because everyone loves to blog about a contest), which was useful given the short time frame. It also focused the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." Next practices in integrating social media for program delivery that leads to social outcomes. So, armed with an improvised mobile wireless mic, I used an Oprah style facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. What did you discover and how can you incorporate it into your practice? Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. I'm nervous. Del.icio.us

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Will they laugh at you, start to cheer, or be intrigued?

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