Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. You don't get as much control over the look and feel of your mind map as you would with say MindManager, although you can import an MindManager file. Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that? I had to play with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion. .” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

These tools can facilitate coordination/discussion/communication amongst key stakeholders about the content. The diagram below is Robin Good's Collaborative Map of Online Collaboration Tools. She offers some examples of this approach from the activism field.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery.

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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. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Stated another way, organize and simplify. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

TechSoup involves online volunteers as subject matter experts, moderators, and facilitators for our community forum. We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. Virtual Volunteering Wiki : in conjunction with the 2013 release of the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook later this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. 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

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The 1:9:90 rule says that 90% of all users are consumers, 9% of all users are curators and only 1% of the users are creators.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. Stringing Connections , in which visitors could describe relationships between works in the exhibition and make them visible by tying pieces of yarn between them on a large map of the gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Browse through this list of resources about user-generated content in an educational context from the Horizon Project Wiki. Openness - ????A

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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. 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. ". E-mail marketing. event managment.

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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." Using this open source collaborative platform, the Manhattan-based nonprofit has so far engaged more than 600 communities in 55 countries in creating citizen maps to catalyze new environmental projects, large and small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way? Not sure how to use the wiki software and may feel too difficult or time consuming to figure out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

There are social network applications designed to facilitate free agent fundraisers, for example Facebook Causes Birthday Campaign and some of the earlier experiments over at Social Actions. There are numerous examples in NTEN's WeAreMedia Wiki focused marketing and fundraising objectives. What's your take?

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