ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

One of the themes raised up as the GEO/Monitor Institute conference came to an end was the importance of trust and relationship building in networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Reboot Britain - David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and I are going to faciliate another round of the Social by Social Game at Reboot Britain - I'm really looking forward to the innovative ideas groups come up with! I'm also looking forward to the rest of the day as a participant and not just a facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

I’ve been having this conversation with several groups lately, Network of Networked Funders and Network Weaving Sandbox , comprised of individual who are intentionally approaching their work with a network mindset. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network. These can be done offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I’m talking about the stuff we consume daily to keep inform of our professional field. It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She pointed out that an individual’s knowledge and skills will be out of date within 5 years and a college degree will be out of date long before the loan is paid off. This means we need to build the skill of learning the new and this means building online social network competence. He asked to reflect on our network map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about. Designing for Serendipity.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings. We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. WeAreMedia Choose Your Own Adventure Webinar where we look at strategy maps and took deep dives into tactics like listening/engagement, spreading buzz , storytelling , and social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Visit the United Way's LIVE UNITED ™ site and run your mouse over the map. It doesn't stop at integrating social media into the external communications plan for the national entity, but includes training and support for local united ways to implement a social media strategy in their local communities. Here's an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Stephen Blyth of Common Knowledge invited Beth Kanter to visit New Zealand to facilitate some workshops for NGOs interested in networked capacity building. Ushahidi is a NetSquared project alumnus who has gone on to create an amazing interactive mapping platform. Find your closest NetSquared Local group on our map !

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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 ). The book is well-researched, well-written – and gives you the map for navigating in an increasingly complex world. Now You See It by Cathy Davidson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. with "just for fun."

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

If you are hosting an in-person event and you want your attendees to access digital aspects of the event, like a schedule or map, then you can choose a virtual event platform designed for mobile apps and small amounts of digitization. Some platforms are also tailored for a specific task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

I'm coming to Minnesota at the end of the month to give a keynote at Message+Medium+Mission Conference , nonprofit tech conference co-sponsored by the good folks at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and MAP for Nonprofits. If you are planning on attending, I look forward to meeting you.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. What are APIs? So what is an API, really? Think of APIs as connecting plugs between applications.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

An interactive map app was also collaboratively created by the community as a social experiment to facilitate user experience. Through this project, she bridged the gap between curator and audience using the essential component of social media: technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was going mainstream in nonprofit workplaces, along with the need to develop technology plans. Similar adoption issues and themes surfaced as I identified in my recent post on social media policy. In a follow up email, she asked what might be different about the adoption issues for social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

If you are hosting an in-person event and you want your attendees to access digital aspects of the event, like a schedule or map, then you can choose a virtual event platform designed for mobile apps and small amounts of digitization. Some platforms are also tailored for a specific task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. What's your strategy map? I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed. What's the outcome? What's the key metric? How might you measure it? Observations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement.

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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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. including: a product matching program, storytelling trainings, social. network management, and cause marketing initiatives. Connection points like Google Hangouts allow your circle to share what they are. Collaboration. We will focus. A long-time.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

We are also interested in a lot of the same content areas -- nonprofits, collaboration, online communication, facilitation, social media, social networking, web2.0, So, here we are using a wiki to map out the presentation in a way that others could join the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

The paper goes on to explain that measuring influence on blogs by number of subscribers and how many people linked to it isn't longer a credible metric because people are using a variety of different social media tools to connect with their audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

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. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Social networking. In order to enhance the transfer of knowledge, it is important that the messenger be seen as a credible expert on the information being presented. ".

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. After mapping the community and identifying shared goals you can focus on, you can start identifying the online tools and technologies that the community (especially when you break it down into segments) already uses, for what, why, and how.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

At the info desk with the maps? 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 Where do you display those ratings?

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