Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

New Zealand: Tables for Small Group Exercises. I had my ideal set ups in Australia and New Zealand – rooms with circle seating or round tables and space in the room to move around or work on interactive exercises such as creating your organization’s networking map. This is an exercise I used in Tunisia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I got tagged by three different people for the same blogger meme that swirling around the blogosphere. Here's the meme: Publish five little known facts about yourself, and then tag five of your blogger pals to participate. I'm tagging five people I've met via my blog, but don't know too well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

His reflections remind me that I wish I could have immerse myself in the entire content (which was enormous) for the entire month, but those exercises and discussion that I managed to swoop into provided me with significant learning. page explore out to see where and to whom your tag links take you. In your my del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. What central tag to use to get an item noticed? What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

While I love using magic markers and sticky notes or tossing a ball in icebreakers and exercises, don’t only use activities that require having materials or equipment on hand. Here’s an excellent resource with tons of great icebreakers and exercises that can be adapted for staff training. (3) You can always adapt or improvise.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

But more than that, this exercise helps identify where you should concentrate efforts, where to distribute messages, and where you have the best chance of successfully engaging the community to support your work. Tags: resources community content howto strategy. Community Map. Why : Why map your community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . Participants got to introduce themselves with "just three tags," picking three key words that describe them. Tags: technology training training materials.

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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. . We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

If yours is a health organization, give exercise or quitting smoking tips. Tags: Blogging. Share resources. Blogging only about your organization and its work is a mistake. Expand your ideas about what you can write about. If your organization serves children, write a review for a new children’s book. You get the idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. For me, the web and 2.0 For others, the concept of ???public public information???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Chris also notes the headlines and tags of videos that are trending and often patterns our next video to capitalize on the buzz. I listen to dozens of podcasts whenever I am driving or exercising about online marketing, SEO, and anything I can find on emerging technology, entertainment and design, with my favorite being TED.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We at the Diabetes Hands Foundation started the Big Blue Test in 2009 with a simple premise meant to raise awareness about the importance of physical activity for diabetes management: testing your blood sugar, exercising 14 minutes, testing your blood sugar again and sharing the results with the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. Tags: twitter. What do you think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

When you are undergoing the process of creating or implementing a new system of any sort, whether it be a CMS for a website, a CRM, some internal system, it is a really good exercise to be like a 3 year-old, and keep asking “why?&# Tags: Consulting Development Technology Zen nptech Software. Why do we need this feature?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2010

I'd love your suggestions for how you make time to exercise, or to do whatever it is that is that nourishes you. Tags: walk birthday. The biggest challenge, I think, will be making the time to do it. I'd also love any musical suggestions as I create my 30-minute walking playlists (you can see one below in my MixPod mix).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Reframe the Problem Example: If you were asked to design a new version of a name tag (like the ones you wear at conferences) you'd probably get versions that were different, but ultimately similar. But if you asked, "Why do we use name tags?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I happen to agree with that, which gives me a different perspective on exercises like this exercise in crowdsourcing. Tags: crowdsourcing. The suggestion is that the wisdom of the crowd can somehow be orchestrated, or led, or managed like a trained seal. Do you know of an example of crowdsourcing from a nonprofit organization?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It’s one thing to know you need to exercise every day, but it’s a whole different ball game to actually do it. Your body will definitely reflect the difference in whether or not you take action on the things you know about exercise! Tags: General Fundraising Inspiration Leadership Management mindset.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Join us to examine where your community resides online using a mapping exercise, think about cross-channel best practices, and talk about examples of successful cross-platform community building. Tags: events 11ntc conference event nten proposals sessions voting. Community Driven Social Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. These use tools like crayons and paper and process exercises. . Tags: network effectiveness. The first was to look at the different social network analysis maps posted on the walls and figure out what was going on.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 15, 2009

I think this is a great exercise in being laser-focused, concise and compelling. Tags: Twitter Website/Internet. I saw this late last night on Twitter: Hugh Jackman is offering $100,000 to a nonprofit that can passionately explain their cause in 140 characters or less. . Send your response to @RealHughJackman That’s it.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2010

Have you used this type of exercise before to help you get your thoughts together? Tags: Management nonprofit planning. &# This helped us decide on the information to include and by using the sticky notes, we were easily able to figure out how to organize the information for each type of visitor. Do share!

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2010

Have you used this type of exercise before to help you get your thoughts together? Tags: Management nonprofit planning. &# This helped us decide on the information to include and by using the sticky notes, we were easily able to figure out how to organize the information for each type of visitor. Do share!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 1, 2009

A short twitter conversation I had with a colleague brought up the issue of whether or not this is just an exercise – will this actually lead to any lasting change? Tags: Open Source Technology Zen. That’s a good question. Kirrily has a set of really good guidelines for open source communities: Recruit diversity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 1, 2009

A short twitter conversation I had with a colleague brought up the issue of whether or not this is just an exercise – will this actually lead to any lasting change? Tags: Open Source Technology Zen. That’s a good question. Kirrily has a set of really good guidelines for open source communities: Recruit diversity.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This might include fine-tuning your user experience design, tweaking your page’s meta tags, or reaching out to donors in a more inviting and dynamic way. This allows you to analyze trends in how users engage with your donation tools and then respond accordingly by optimizing your operations.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But more than that, this exercise helps identify where you should concentrate efforts, where to distribute messages, and where you have the best chance of successfully engaging the community to support your work. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program. Community Map. Why : Why map your community?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The best exercise in the world is reaching down to lift others up. Tags: Inspiration. Here’s a little Monday Morning Motivation for you. Sometimes we can get so immersed in the details of our work that we lose sight of the most important thing – changing people’s lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

As technology steward for an online community of practice or facilitator of a group that wants to work together online, it is valuable to do this exercise to help you get a better understanding. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection. Tags: visual thinking.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2010

As someone who travels frequently, often alone to crowded places where one must exercise a high level of caution, losing my laptop or phone is something I think about a lot. Tags: Hardware Physical Security Security. The New York Times also blogged about the same issue. However, expect to pay a premium for such technologies.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I’m inviting people to share their definitions, here and on social (and tag me); I’ll summarize your thoughts next week. I don’t enjoy swimming in pools or anything that seems like exercise; I have definitely never done a flip off the high dive. We need new #MuseumVerbs. Let me suggest one to start us off: Let go. There must be others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Over the years, I used this exercise for different audiences, from filmmakers to university professionals. This exercise is most appropriate for people who want to know the what/why versus the best practices of how to do it. Tags: change management network effectiveness. What style of dancing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

On the content side, I was surprised to hear the responses to the simplicity exercise - what could your organization do less of? Meetings was a big one, followed by worry! Tags: 10ntc networked nonprofit. Pretty good for only being in the room together one time before and presenting together for the first time! I realized that I.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

Are you allowing your teams to create "pilots" prior to scrutinizing them through traditional ROI exercises? Tags: listening. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed? Are you building a culture in which "failure" is acceptable? Are you synthesizing qualitative insights in addition to analyzing hard data points?

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