Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. " Steve and I exchanged a quick comments about online facilitation practice and community design in community blogs. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. The discussion thread goes something like this. "I need a tool that does xyz for abc purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation? How do you facilitate cross-blog conversation ? How do you facilitate conversation in the comments ? Reply to every (rational) question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

And, that's why I really enjoy being a member of Cpsquared community because I get to explore online technology tools (in this case for online facilitation/collaboration) with really thoughtful people. First, as with a lot of online facilitation/collaboration it can be frustrating and a little chaotic. I met with the group last week.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. I had a fascinating conversation recently with a program officer about running an online community for African educators making use of good old-fashioned Listserv technology. This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

One might think that it would be difficult to sustain a truly interactive experience, but the way Ethan and Rebecca facilitated - it was an intense day-long conversation. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. The Summit was a full-day session with all 80 or so people in the same room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). She acknowledges that it takes time to listen and that there is no way around it. BlogDigger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). She acknowledges that it takes time to listen and that there is no way around it. BlogDigger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. What do you do to facilitate it? For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. After the panelist intros, it was opened up for audience discussions facilitated by Anslee Berkman (who is a she). Also, at the end when I thought I was having a private IM with a colleague to set up a play date with my kids, it was broadcast to the entire group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. Outside of blogs, I think that anything that facilitates word of mouth can be very effective. This would make a great blog post!???

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. And then if you’re interested in connecting more with me, would be happy to facilitate one of these retreats, or volunteer leadership workshops for your board and just continue to stay in touch and be a resource. They can help with follow-up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. Del.icio.us is a popular social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to organize and retrieve your bookmarks.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That goal means that a wiki is useful, because participants can contribute segmented content and then work with facilitators to decide how to organize it. Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. For the Horizon Project, we were asked to use the wiki to answer questions.

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