Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

My work as a trainer and facilitator has brought me to many places in the world. Often, the training on-site is the beginning of project which includes facilitating sessions remotely across time zones. Here’s my best tips for scheduling virtual meetings for your nonprofit across time zones: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

As I ran snapping my tourist photo of the poster for my learning journal (which I keep on Flickr ), Ansible mentioned that uploading Second Life snapshots on Flickr is controversal. So, perhaps my photos won't be censored from the public search. You can read the details here from Wagner James Au's New World Notes Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. As Louis Sullivan, HHS Secretary in 1989-93 and famous for walking meetings, notes, “For me, walking has proved to be a great way to promote a healthy lifestyle, while facilitating my communications skills and leadership efforts.” Virtual Meetings: Conference calls, online chats, and webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. Here's where the coffee cup photos enter. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. I remember being inspired by it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't." How do we think about virtual worlds and help us study human behavior. On the topics of metrics, we don't have a name for virtual worlds yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. Take for example the upcoming podcamp in Boston that is using a wiki for registration, program planning, note taking, and virtually all the logistical details or any of the barcamp gatherings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting.

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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. Ushahidi’s board , like its staff , work together virtually across many time zones using different online tools for meetings and collaborative work. She kindly live tweeted the workshop and took some photos.

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