Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. It was always peer learning – I’d share about the technology and they’d teach me about their work.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Do this via survey, focus group, or one-to-one interviews. Do you have necessary facilitating internal systems, policies and procedures and controls? How do you imagine your constituents will feel and behave over the next umpteen months? And how will you find out so you don’t have to assume? . Ask your supporters directly.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. Every day we read about ways that teaching, learning and accreditation are being unbundled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. As much as I could, if I got asked a question, I invited the younger folks in the room to answer and facilitated an inter-generational dialog. This week I put that into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! The questions that emerged from this group were not different from those that are asked when we talk about online facilitation and online communities. These folks would be perfect participants for Nancy White's Online Facilitation Workhop.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. She is an alumna of Up With People and traveled as an Applied Education facilitator with Up with People last fall. before coming to Up with People. While in D.C.,

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As someone interviewing for a top job, how can you detect warning signs of organizational system decay *before* your professional credibility is on the line? Modern systems facilitate automation of the moves you will make while doing the delicate courtship dance of recruitment with in-demand board members. The Seven Questions.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. Move aside, Julie.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” So let me navigate around that.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. I have actually one of my students on the on this call which is fabulous. So every time I teach or present, I like to do group agreements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. Invisible People uses crowd sourcing to select the best stories and interviews.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. And what I always tell the students that I work with is, number one, stay in community. It might be teaching. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes. We never saw it in action before we started doing it.

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