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. Does everyone in your nonprofit participate in social networks including the board? What are the benefits and challenges? Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was honored to be the keynote speaker for the Bay Area Microsoft/TechSoup Global Connection Day on Monday. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. The TechSoup Global Network , NetSquared, GuideStar International, and NGOsource projects facilitate philanthropic support, data transparency and shared innovation around the world. billion to date.

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Forum One

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages. From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

So it's critical that you use a platform that makes it really easy for people who just signed up to invite their social networks to join them. It should sync with social networks so you don't have to create separate event pages there. Then folks can either send it as is or customize it to their tastes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book looks at how ICT can help solve global poverty issues in a range of fields, including disaster relief, health education, micro finance, and education. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. .&# I read the manuscript over the summer so I could blurb this book. The book is available on Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Via Global Voices Advocacy blog. The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 It will also facilitate collaboration between activists, allowing them to find each other, share tactics and strategies and experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance by David Sibbet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

This is a group of women who have been working/playing together to explore how technology can support the World Cafe global community. Much of my connection has been facilitated by online technology so it was great to participate - finally - face-to-face. tools that facilitate this. Marnie Webb by JD Lasica.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.). What examples do you know about?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

In early May, I wrote a post asking all of you for suggestions for "changebloggers," people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, to build community, and/or to facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. Changeblogger Ning social network to connect with other changebloggers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

The Social Media Surgery community (of which Net2 Manchester organizer Steven Flower is a key member) won the BBC Learning Through Technology Award. Not sure what a Social Media Surgery is? Morrisville, NC: It’s a SNAP: An easy social networking process to increase marketing results. social media NetSquared'

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

The project uses online debates, blogs and social media to engage future leaders interested in substantive foreign policy issues. Employing technologies, including blogs, wikis and social networking tools, to modernize internal, cross-agency, and public communication and information sharing to improve government decision-making.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Mobile phones have gotten to a price point where even the most poor can afford them -- and GSM networks, financed a dollar at a time through prepaid scratch cards, are increasingly ubiquitous. . The ability to communicate freely connects families, strengthens social networks, reduces travel, overcomes illiteracy and provides safety.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. The blog is about citizen-led social change efforts. $5 Why did I go?

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. as Global Entrepreneur of the Year by Business Women's Network. including: a product matching program, storytelling trainings, social. network management, and cause marketing initiatives. Collaboration. We will focus. She has been honored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. observes, "Thus you need a strategy that combines email lists pushing your message, vision, and resources out into communities residing on sites and networks other than your own." Global NpTech. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Buoyed by the success of their first event, the Twestival organizers wanted to do a second event, selecting a charity that had a global outreach and an active presence on Twitter. As Ben observes, " Well that ticked the boxes on the accountability and global presence fronts. Seems like facilitative leadership is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. score out of 5.0).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Frogs are one of the harbingers of global warming. (I I guess that explains why I've been hearing frogs at night since February) Frogwatch USA is a monitoring program that facilitates people's collecting and sharing data about frogs in their area. The Packard Kid Connection site helps kids get ready to go to the hospital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

It facilitates free agent fundraising. In a round up of 2009 social media predictions , expert Charlene Li predicted that Obama-maniacs will spawn a new age of activism. " The millions of online-activated volunteers in the Obama campaign will find the drudgery of governing unappealing and abandon Obama's citizen government movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. And Netsquared.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

An inclusive environment that cultivates engagement from a global community. It embraced a truly hybrid model; that is, it facilitated real-time participation from every attendee, rather than just adding a digital component to an in-person event. What do you get when you combine around the table with virtual collaboration?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

How a global crisis shifted member expectations. Community Brands research shows that one of the primary reasons members join an association is for networking opportunities. Nimble Communities helps associations to facilitate and elevate social networking among their members, even when in-person events aren’t feasible.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Blogs and social networks fall in this category. But I might enjoy a "tour" of web content facilitated by a staff member, especially if I could then take home a list of the pages we perused, or, even better, have them automatically added to my del.icio.us the website has a distinct enough brand to constitute its own institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. We need real world events to be a central part of our online organizing. What kind of offline events are the best fit for your community?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And finally, you want to identify the roles needed to create, facilitate, and implement the programs and services you design with the community. We are at a very interesting time – with shifts happening locally and globally, governments changing, and new paradigms emerging. At least if you plan on interacting with them!

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APRIL 26, 2021

Virtual events have skyrocketed in popularity, with more and more nonprofits moving to the digital space to facilitate traditional face-to-face engagement efforts like auctions, galas, and walkathons. YouTube users can begin streaming in minutes and you can leverage scheduling options to better facilitate your pre-planned events.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

George Durham, Program Manager, Microsoft Global Community Affairs On January 12th, 2010, a devastating earthquake ripped through the Haitian landscape, literally decimating cities like Leogane, Petit Goave, and much of Port-au-Prince. George Durham is a Program Manager with Microsoft’s Global Community Affairs team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Organizations should assess what drove success for online, global, and activism campaigns to identify “next” practices — instead of just trying to emulate their efforts. And you can spur attention by reaching out to bloggers or encouraging your supporters to introduce some of their friends to your work. He is the author of Media Rules!:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. I facilitated a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit, covering the concepts of social culture, simplicity, and transparency.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Nonprofits will use this data to understand what communication channels are most effective, how to better fundraise (who to ask for how much), how to effectively facilitate events or peer-to-peer fundraise, how to increase recurring giving, etc. Social Media. The benefits and options for leveraging this integration are limitless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. Social media has changed the world. It has revolutionized communications on a global scale, and the transformation continues with every status update, blog post, and video stream. The global citizenry has become a global network.

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