Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Social Media Lab: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit. As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. The first was a free general admission ticket that included access to all live keynotes, sessions, workshops, and networking events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The concepts around connectivity and leadership were synergistic with the concept of networked leadership that Allison Fine and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit , published in several years before. It also analyzes the skills – which are often misunderstand as the ability to use the social network platforms like Facebook.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans. Most impactful is having sample bequest language that donors can share with their legal advisors. This recognition can inspire continued engagement and motivate them to promote planned giving within their networks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account. But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Bell was on networked TV apologizing. 3: Social Networking. He went through some recent trends with social networking use. Ultimately, Ms.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Community Managers ensure successful engagement and participation on a new platform by facilitating discussion, modeling behavior, and supporting leadership development. Community Managers provide key facilitation that empowers participation and engenders trust.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Be sure to watch their space for more!

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. 11NTCSocialCRM) Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) - The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. This year, my 4th, promises to be the best yet. I love it.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account. But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2013

This 3-hour course showcases real-world examples to help you discover how best to protect, positively promote, and selectively manage your online personal and professional profiles, all while maintaining your connections to family, friends, colleagues and networks. Related Links : KAUST. Course listing in Acadox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Here is a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started. This Sample Budget Template provides a more detailed expense breakdown and can be used to start your Giving Day budget. None of this can be done effectively without systematic planning upfront – and that takes time. How much staff time is involved?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. This is the last post in a series of post about my experience at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

But there was something else at play for me this year, my fourth, celebrating my birthday with social media and a networked fundraising campaign for the Sharing Foundation. It makes you feel good to give and celebrate and be part of a network of people doing the same. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) – The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

Investing in movements or networks for social change is a strategy that some funders are using. The report is written for funders and those on the ground doing the work in the context of networks, although it doesn’t go deep into practice. But, how do you measure the results? Community organizing. Civic engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Social and Mobile Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. Measuring Networked Nonprofits: Using Data for Social Change is the topic of the book I’m co-authoring with KD Paine. Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

One person in the group facilitates and the rest of the groups participates. It can also be used in the middle of a project or strategy to learn while doing. The process is simple. You ask and answer these questions: What was the intent? What actually happened? Why did it happen? What was learned?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

When I facilitated technology and web workshops for nonprofits in the 1990's, I did a lot of workshops on TechnoStress where small groups would identify their concerns and then literally draw a picture of them. Amy Sample Ward shared a collection of links recently pointing to my post about silo culture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founders of Yahoo! Schroeder calls this The LeanModel Framework.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In order to ensure the work and concepts that emerged throughout the workshops had a launch pad, we created the Idea Accelerator as the final day’s focus, pushing those ideas into possibilities.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? I wrote the second article called, " Determining Your Social Networking Needs."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion. In which formats?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Following a point-counterpoint tradition, NTEN''s CEO Amy Sample Ward will facilitate a conversation with panelists Michael Enos, CTO, of the Second Harvest Food Bank, Gouri Sadhwani, CEO of the Akanksha Fund, and Rick Cohen, Director of Communications and Operations at the National Council of Nonprofits. >> Don''t miss out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

Here are my big picture takeaways from participating in this networked, virtual cross-generational exchange that explored the lessons learned from generation to generation –while encouraging more organizations to look within their own institutions at how they must change in order to attract, retain and engage new donors, activists, champions, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 9, 2012

Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. She works with individuals and organizations whose mission is to increase our capacity for empathy, generosity, and creativity.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It’s great for organizations to inspire hundreds or thousands of supporters to join their group, forum, network or whatever other opportunity that’s available. Email Amy Sample Ward the link to your post! Well, those connections are really important, but not in a highest-friend-count kind of way. Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

– "The goal of the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS) project is to turn qualitative case studies of digital activism around the world into a non-proprietary quantitative machine-readable data set in spreadsheet form that will facilitate the work of scholars in this new field."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

I'm also looking forward to the rest of the day as a participant and not just a facilitator. " onion network - "The onion network is an international mixture of socially aware freelancers and companies. The way we choose tools based on our networks/friends' choice is really clear when you map it like this!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

The core team was the same: David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and Amy Sample Ward - all co-authors, with Cass Business School of the forthcoming Social by Social handbook. It was a lot of fun, and since Andy was doing an excellent job of facilitating, and Amy was mentoring the groups, I was able to capture proceedings on video.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Through a facilitated training, participants will work independently and in small groups to develop and share project plans for using social media to engage supporters. Understanding who you are working with and the kinds of content you want to create and share, will help you then build engaging and valuable social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. As someone who designs and facilitates professional development projects for nonprofits, this is a trainer’s dream! There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

NetSquared Local is TechSoup’s volunteer-driven network of nonprofit tech meetups and salons. Stephen Blyth of Common Knowledge invited Beth Kanter to visit New Zealand to facilitate some workshops for NGOs interested in networked capacity building. Burlington, VT: Social Change Anytime Everywhere with Amy Sample Ward.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

As an association, your main product is the value that you provide to members— this likely includes networking experiences, events, and casual educational experiences such as webinars and presentations. Analyze samples of their past work. These are all fairly easily managed by your team of association professionals. Course authoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. We had one person handling the technology and another person serving as moderator in the room. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked.

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