Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2016

” Author Michael Michalko created the “ Think Pack ” to accompany his book on creativity techniques, Thinker Toys. I hope McDonald’s uses more Support Groups to engage with employees & their families to assist in the refugee crisis. thanks, @AllieB!). thanks, @Anthony_Lazzaro!).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Instead of ensuring the success of a country, our focus is strictly on programs and the utilization of proven techniques. But the reminders definitely help. Use learnings as a stepping stone and initialize discussion based on learning topics via private social media channels (Protected Groups).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF). Social media is a prominent social gathering place where these goals can definitely be met.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. After each participant selected an experiment, we grouped them together and had them work together on setting it up. I did floating consults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Develop shared language. Cross disciplinary teams.

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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. Let’s start with a definition first. The new social economy includes all the ways we use our private resources to create social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. The configuration of the physical space definitely enhances learning. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. There are definitely some shades of gray. We worked in small groups by network purpose. It isn't black and white.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Bristol Strategy Group – Strategic Planning & Board Development. The Alford Group – Corporate Partnerships. Your finances are one area of your operations where you definitely don’t want to leave things up to chance. Bristol Strategy Group: Top Consulting Firm for Strategic Planning & Board Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. BTW, she says that I " dropped science " but she means the 1st definition, not the fourth! (BTW,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Collective intelligence refers to the outcomes generated by pooling knowledge from diverse groups, using it to research and debate and then refining the resulting understanding into useful and actionable information. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator. Change agent who's been around many blocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Typically, I have two groups of participants and as the chart above indicates, this group is no different - except that I probably have a greater number of people in Group 2. (1) 2) Need A Basic Introduction: This group is new to social media, has not experienced directly but wants to get started using it strategically.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The first training I went to was on Public Narrative, led by master facilitator Sarah El-Raheb. Public Narrative is an activist storytelling technique for rallying others to your cause. I experienced a 2-day training with a group of fellow grantees sponsored by the Irvine Foundation. It was incredible.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

These arrangements are starting-off points; they don’t originate from any definitive recording or performance. The music he listened to on the radio "got its power" from studio techniques. Level the playing field for participants of diverse backgrounds. Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist.

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MARCH 3, 2011

These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. Two years later, while I still appreciate the very real operational limitations of most institutions with regard to facilitation, I now believe that it's often essential to success. Why did this happen?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

One might think that it would be difficult to sustain a truly interactive experience, but the way Ethan and Rebecca facilitated - it was an intense day-long conversation. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. The Summit was a full-day session with all 80 or so people in the same room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. Design for complexity, communicate for simplicity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

What is your (simple) definition of social marketing? Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? whether formal, like focus groups and surveys, or informal is imperative in order to create an effective strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Let's say I'm leading a youth group or course about nutrition and being healthy for at-risk youth. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog. Recipe Swamp Group.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Fundraising.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

There is a whole group, a support group for us. So maybe you have a form that you use to have input, a survey you use for input, you have small digital groups that you have input, a Slack channel for input. And you find out where the hierarchy is and who is in the group chat. Definitely working on a hold on my power.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

EWF International provides professionally facilitated peer advisory groups for women business owners and executives. Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. Its so powerful I wanted to pass it along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. All of the groups had terrific answers! Customize once you get on-site.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We used this technique to develop the prompt. When you get a group together at the table, it's incredibly fun and successful at prompting people to share personal stories related to the topics at hand. This is definitely a case where people's participation is higher given the overall participatory vibe of the gallery.

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