Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

As we grow older, storytelling is the means by which we engage with our friends and family to create shared understanding, and eventually with our employers and workmates to establish alignment around a mission. From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

His photo and commentary and use the hash tags facilitates visibility and connection to this audience target. He has created the best fit and is delivering that extra punch to the Met’s communications strategy. He gives you the inside story about the work of art. Visibility. Specialization. Avoid the Uncanny Valley.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

This is also why campaigns that involve tagging friends and encouraging them to pass on the message are effective. The nonprofit Charity: Water does this exceptionally well by inviting their supporters to create their own fundraising campaign for the organization. Leverage social information and norms.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

This includes an optimized website that’s mobile-friendly and easy to navigate, strategic use of search engine optimization (SEO) to increase visibility during times of high public interest, and an established monthly giving program to facilitate the transition from one-time to recurring donations. This creates a more meaningful ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Note from Beth: This week I'm researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements. Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago. If you are like me, you are asked all the time to use these media to create movements. Yes, that difficult word, BUT.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

Allowing lapsed donors to fall through the cracks without attempting to re-engage them creates a vicious cycle. This approach combines modern technology, data intelligence, and donor-centric giving experiences, creating a dynamic strategy that adapts to the evolving needs and preferences of supporters.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city. We also ended the entire event with one of my favorite exercises, the Exquisite Corpse game, in which participants co-created comics of their craziest museum dreams. Facilitator bits. Tags: professional development.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Since co-authoring Social by Social last year, David Wilcox and I have had the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate various events for community and local government groups. Tags: collaboration events format innovation projectspaces socialbysocial. Check out the Project Spaces wiki.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2023

You might create some common talking points about your organization and event for folks to share when they make an introduction, before presenting a formal invitation to become a sponsor. Create Attractive Sponsor Packages Your sponsorship offerings should appeal to a variety of businesses and budgets. Use social media.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Following, Dr. Robert Ashcraft, ASU Lodestar Center's Executive Director, facilitated a conversation with Kat, Partner Jacky Alling from the Arizona Community Foundation and me, where we discussed the high impact philanthropy ecosystem in Arizona. Social Impact — What is the positive change in the world you want to create?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. To Use The Bookmarklet To Add Tags To Your Post.

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Classy

MARCH 24, 2021

These could include helping run your social media pages, assisting with data entry, or facilitating research projects. Help your corporate partner create and share social media posts that highlight the impact they’re making possible for your nonprofit during the pandemic. Consider incorporating each other’s logos on your home pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

" It also made me realize that it should be tag because of sloppiness. That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. Danny Blue suggests that leaders create opportunities to work on experimental projects and hindsight everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Effective learning that creates results and transfers to action over time starts with unleashing people’s existing knowledge – they need to pull forward pre-existing information. We asked participants to create a name tag comprised of key words of what they learned. Space to Move Around. My Name Is What I Learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. What are challenges that nonprofits face when trying to create an innovation mindset in their organization to support social strategy and how to overcome them? rachelannyes #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

My role in the project is to the facilitate the training sessions, design the overall training, facilitate openers and closings, help prep the curriculum, and deliver modules on digital strategy and social media. Working with Wake is also a wonderful professional development experience to hone training and facilitation trade craft.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions. Tags: campaigns presentation facebook lpw philanthropy romania workshop. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org I’d love to hear how it went!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

You can create a communications cadence to reach out to these supporters, help them build stronger connections to your mission, and ultimately send them a personalized donation request based on their giving capacity and past donation amounts. Be sure your nonprofit CRM can create both: Letters and mailings. Engaging emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms. Each group will present its campaign strategy and tactics to the entire workshop, and facilitators will offer feedback and additional ideas. Tags: events 11ntc conference event nten proposals sessions voting.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. PatientOpinion was created as a gift economy. the web creates visible real-time reputations. Tags: case studies maps free gift economy health mps09 patientopinion. I’m capturing notes at the MyPublicServices event from PatientOpinion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Next week I will be speaking at and event Bebo is facilitating for members of Number 10 Downing St, local Councils, civic departments (police, etc.), social agencies and nonprofits, and so on focused on creating an integrated No to Knives campaign. Please note: I will credit any and all contributions, of course.

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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. . They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

It is a combination of content you create or that has been repurposed from your organization's web site, but also includes what people share. It is also content created by your supporters that they share through social outposts and that you re-purpose and remix back through other channels including your web site. Have a checklist?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. It would also be great, as a side note here, to allow groups to create their own contexts/Boroughs. That is a lot to do in a whole day, let alone an hour or two.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

The first session, facilitated by colleague Daniel Cohen, focused on creating a communications strategy. Tags: Training Design. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a two-part session.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

It doesn’t empower you to create new content and keep up with the latest developments in your field. Facilitating CME in a manner that empowers all interested members to engage with it can be a task easier said than done if your CME LMS isn’t an impactful solution. Create reports that align with ACCME PARS compatibility requirements.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Following the keynote sessions – at 10:30 AM we start with a blank wall and, in less than an hour, with a facilitator guiding the process attendees create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone in the room. Tags: events 2.0 Programming. What is an Unconference? End of the Day.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

On a daily basis, I work with the organizers in all these cities as well as those interested in organizing in their community, to connect them to each other, share information and ideas, and create innovative ways to link the global network. What do you think? Leave a comment on the application here.

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