Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. WeAreMedia Choose Your Own Adventure Webinar where we look at strategy maps and took deep dives into tactics like listening/engagement, spreading buzz , storytelling , and social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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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. That’s not to say that conversation can’t be incredible – but even then it is probably still not real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Gilbert commented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. It is important to have the conversation to unpack it. Tags: training materials. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. As part of effective social media strategy development, the internal conversation must take place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

What I’m most excited about is “networked learning&# – it is part peer learning, part content-delivery, and another part engaging people in the room and not in the room in conversation through the use of social media. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. Hashtag Stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. We created a network map. Each person introduced their: “Five Things You Should Know About Me&# for this project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Visit the United Way's LIVE UNITED ™ site and run your mouse over the map. According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." Tags: social media. Wondering where he got that awesome T-shirt?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. 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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It presents itself in the form of permission-based tools, such as device IDs, cookies, Geo-location, and IP mapping. Google Tag Manager : This is an excellent tool from Google, and it’s free. With the Google Tag Manager, you can link Instagram, Google Analytics, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation.

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MARCH 6, 2009

What are the technical tools (databases, applications, platforms) that would help facilitate the work. Tags: Global Health. what are the human factors (culture change, trust, networks) that will enable full participation by all parties in all of the above? The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This platform has facilitated over $1 billion in charitable giving to schools through innovative and effective fundraising avenues. GiveCampus boasts impressive resources, such as: Tailored and easy-to-use giving forms that reduce friction and increase donor conversion. GiveCampus. Why We Love This School Fundraising Platform.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

There are a zillion apps for making your own tours, podcasts, maps, or QR code-infested games. Once you download an app, are you really going to remember to (re)open it to find an interesting historical fact tagged to your geolocation? as they make their way through the world outside the museum. but none of them are great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Usability is a Conversation. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. What's your strategy map? During the morning and early afternoon session, I felt that some tables were having difficult conversations. Tags as a metric. What's the outcome?

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MAY 9, 2008

There's a tag applied to many Museum 2.0 Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. The driver provides live facilitation. I've written before about the power of live facilitators.

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Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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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." Using this open source collaborative platform, the Manhattan-based nonprofit has so far engaged more than 600 communities in 55 countries in creating citizen maps to catalyze new environmental projects, large and small.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Listen first and discover where the conversations are! Thursday, April 8, 2010. NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Today, a conversation with Elisa Giaccardi , from the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design at University of Colorado , Boulder. My favorite pieces of this conversation dealt with 1. This year, we will complete the development of the first two technologies—the recording mechanism and the collaborative mapping tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Carlos Miranda, the host, did a great job facilitating and designing the sessions. Here’s a few notes. They post a photo of the recipient on their Facebook page and tag the donor as a way to say thank you. Kevin McSpadden is the director of marketing and brand strategy at Facebook, joining the company 18 months ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. One might be drawing the map of the network's connections and facilitating a discussion about what the network looks like.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Not all the art was good, but it all spurred conversation. What People Talked About The conversations ranged in topic, but we most frequently heard people talk about: Preferences. This focus on process also bore out in lots of the conversations I had and overheard with artists. People readily exclaimed "I like this one!"

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." Why would I want to sit on a couch and engage in an open-ended, messy conversation with a stranger? Why would I want to talk about Iraq on a visit to an art museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

The panel format was conversational. There are social network applications designed to facilitate free agent fundraisers, for example Facebook Causes Birthday Campaign and some of the earlier experiments over at Social Actions. What if a cause is not on my map of social change. Tags: sxsw. Then audience questions.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

At the best parties, each guest feels like his contributions to the conversation are desired, and everyone feels complicit in creating a wonderful social experience. The me-to-we design stages become even more important when facilitation is not possible. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 What do unfacilitated me-to-we experiences look like?

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