Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of my favorite things about writing a blog, are the conversations in the comments and sidebars (private email conversation). I asked about a SM policy when I started a new position in a nonprofit institution about seven months ago. Still no policy, seven months later. Flickr Photo by Eqqman.

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MARCH 18, 2010

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. Use the Twitter hashtag #er20 to continue the conversation.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The conversations about what constitutes an effective nonprofit social media strategy have been thought provoking. In the last few weeks, I've an opportunity to present and participate in conversations about social media, nonprofits, and foundations with those who work in philanthropy. Why keep them locked up?

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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

APRIL 1, 2009

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." Facilitate the content creation, you can't control it, but make sure you have a solid overarching strategy. Tags: social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Learn more about the conversation here. It has to be done with the acknowledgment that it is the grantees that are doing the work and that the grantees have to be involved in that conversation. Tags: evaluation. From the start, its emphasis has been on continuous (or real-time) feedback and learning.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Participants included representatives from most of the major local organizations focused on global health data, biomed and clinical research, and healthcare delivery, some important funders, and a handful of consultants focusing on GIS, social media and public policy data--all in all a great mix of perspectives. (A Seattle Children's.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2009

Following Ari, would-be topic facilitators stepped up to suggest a session they wanted to facilitate. Principally, there are no policies in place to notify users, and there are no guidelines to protect the data. How do government employees converse openly on these tools without getting their employer in trouble?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement. When facilitator says go, everyone moves so that they are always equidistant between those two people who they chose.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Forum One recently supported a groundbreaking, education summit in New Mexico: "Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning", convened by the Stupski Foundation , West Wind Education Policy , and the Knowledge Alliance. Tags: Collaboration Communication Strategy Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? Conversations. Having conversations without having a blog. The art and practice of blogging for nonprofits (planning, policy, writing, commenting). Who should drive the organization's social media strategy?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

For-profit entities were the first to develop systemic policies, procedures, and practices to identify, analyze, and assess risks as well as to communicate the context and outcomes of risk management. For the tags or custom fields to be effective, the system needs to have business rules that ensure the data is always captured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. They have a comment policy on their blog. More Flickr Photos here. was about access and Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

Sometimes, the desired visitor actions were hazy, represented by a general principle like “diversity;” other times, the actions were specific extensions of advocacy or policy espoused by the institution. They literally "forced the conversation," giving both reluctant and enthusiastic visitors a way to move beyond the exhibition.

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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

JUNE 17, 2015

Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” The goal for the conversation was that board members would leave the meeting feeling more comfortable talking about the Foundation in a way that makes sense to them, while honoring our brand.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

The “smooth” part refers to ClientTrack’s ability to facilitate (i.e., In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

You can begin seeding the discussion about your issues by participate in existing conversations in social networking and community site or asking questions about your issues in public forums where the target audience is likely to spend time, to begin a groundswell of interest. Tags: facebook guest blogging.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Processing a credit card transaction or facilitating a financial transaction will always have a cost. Is Apple's policy the worst threat to NPOs today? If this or something similar gets Apple to engage in a conversation, then I'm all for that. Something like that would truly be getting it right. smaclaughlin Peter.I

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2009

Betsy Beaumon and I had the pleasure to meet today with Kareem Dale, the special assistant to the president for disability policy. We had a wide-ranging conversation about Bookshare and the current hot disability issues. Tags: Kareem Dale blind SCCR18 copyright Obama copyfight SCCR global library Bookshare WIPO. Really exciting.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. When there are no rules, policies, best practices or missions, you can SAY that your space is for everyone, but you can't enforce it. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place guestpost. People will not always do the right thing.

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