Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Effective delivery for professional development needs to be integrated into the actual work day and that with limited professional development budgets and fast paced workloads, micro-content and micro-exercises as well as mini-sessions are most useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.”

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JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

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MARCH 6, 2013

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

As a trainer, sometimes we get into “ruts&# where we use the same exercises and that can make you less passionate about your work. After lunch, we did an exercise where we used different social media tools to explain a social media concept. The notes are captured here. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Thought folks might be interested in reading the Humaninet blog from Gregg Swanson who will be blogging and uploading photos to the Hnet Flickr account via a satellite connection at a disaster response exercise in Asia put on by ADRA Asia. Blog: [link] Flickr: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. Creativity is a muscle that needs to be exercised like anything else. I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by AnEye4Pictures. Otherwise, the whole exercise can end up being frustrating. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. You may get participation because you’re a funder doing the asking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. So he suggests that organizations don’t have weight loss competitions, but make it easier for employees to exercise. But the problem is that most employees are alienated by wellness programs because it is all about loosing weight or a behavior health factor.

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MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. If you're a church, synagogue, or other religious organization: Credit to Flickr user: evilpeacock 5. Food can offer great visuals and this can be a great community building exercise. Credit to Flickr user: Tropic~7 29.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Flickr Photo by Kris Krug. We are looking for nonprofits that have a work place culture that nurtures the health, happiness, and well-being of staff. It goes beyond physical health or a wellness program that focuses on diet, exercise or sleep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez Source: Flickr, Goodwill SF. A network mindset means exercising leadership through active participation. It means sharing by default. It means communicating through a network model, rather than a broadcast model—finding where the conversations are happening and taking part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by Halepoki Forget chocolate, drugs, puppies, exercise, prozac, or anything else that makes you happy. Giving money (and your time) is a great way to express your personal gratitude. but it makes you feel good. Paul Lamb, in his post " The Year of Living Givingly " points to this article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. A meeting hook does the same thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Flickr photo by Terry Bain. I was searching for the perfect illustration for "five" in flickr and since you all know how much I like dogs , I couldn't resist this photo. (The Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures. The first thing any charity can do is to exercise its own rights to engage in nonpartisan electoral education activities. What can the networked nonprofit do to counteract the impact of secret money in elections?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What surprised me though, was the share pair report out exercise, “What are the conversation starters about concerns that your organization needs to have to build a social media policy?&# I was surprised that most of the topics were tactical and how to questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. However, I figured I might as well try the exercise myself to see if it could help me solve a problem that had been stumping me back at the office. She asked what tools they thought made the most impact over the “past” year. I admit that when I’d first heard Ellie suggest this approach, I was skeptical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Flickr Photo by MR+G. Flickr Photo by Colmmacc. Charlene Li shared an exercise that does with corporations that sounded very similar to the share pair exercise I created for the WeAreMedia Workshop. Downside: one side has no idea what the other is doing. THE TOWER. . The upside: Lots of resources. The downside?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2008

Flickr photo by Lostajv. It usually happens when I've been over doing it -- at the computer, eating, and no exercise. I always seem to find a lot of inspiration when I get good cardio exercise. One of the exercises is to brainstorm a list of 100 questions. Michele Martin asks " What Inspires You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. Saying no is a muscle that needs to be exercised daily. This year I’m incorporating a couple of techniques. Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. This book is a gem.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2008

It made me want to hunt down some creativity exercises you could use to inspire creative problem-solving and big visioning. Flickr Photo Credit: Brainstorms at INDEX: Views by Jacob Bøtter social entrepreneur ashoka creativity What other resources and tools can you recommend to increase creativity and creative problem-solving ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

Flickr Photo by udithawix. That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. But having many choices and opportunities requires developing a special set of skills in order to be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

One of the exercises is to take Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and integrate it with technology content to design a small group exercise. Flickr as a portfolio assessment tool.). So, have been revisiting MI resources. And, of course, Dr. Gardner's research has uncovered a 9th intelligence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

A quick search through Flickr resulted in many photos of beautiful, but toothless children, tooth fairy pillows , a pair of tooth fairies from a dental school, notes to the tooth fairy a dog's visit from the tooth fairy and children's notes to the tooth fairy like the one depicted in the photograph above.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

UNICEF blog, Fieldnotes Urban Sprouts Mission: "Urban Sprouts is a nonprofit using school gardens to help youth actively engage in school, eat better and exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other." Flickr photo credit: Luck of Summer Rain uploaded by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic. What causes are close to your heart?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate. The first contest, they asked people to upload their photos and tag it themselves, which meant they had to create a Flickr account and know what “tagging” was. Are you enabling a "culture of rapid response?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." The exercise was a great learning experience.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

To figure out how you can make an impact, try this exercise based on a similar one from Carol Lloyd's book Creating a Life Worth Living : 1. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com Flickr photo credit: American Flag, Navy Pier, Chicago by Belinda Hankins Miller. She is also the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

Using a metronome, I did all the exercises very slowly and gradully went from largo to allegro to motto allegro. I upload the flickr photos using the uploader tool into their own set and annotate them with notes. However, now that I've recently upgraded my camera phone - I will play with using email to flickr option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. ” It isn’t about making the time or thinking about physical activity or movement as a separate exercise time, but something that is integrated into your life — including work time. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this TED talk , people are sitting 9.3 I made a commitment to change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones). See this one of Marshall's feet) He even put up with me doing a public speaking exercise, shaking hands and singing twinkle, twinkle little star. There were two full-days packed with excellent content and fabulous speakers. Two awesome parties. Ma.gnolia 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? For me, the web and 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr. We had a lot to talk about and I had remembered to bring in a CD of Khmer OpenSource! I don't always present the same material everywhere I go.

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