Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. Global NpTech. Marnie Webb also points to this post. What's Hiafux ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. is an attitude , not a download. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. The workshop begins on April 20th and you can register here.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JUNE 9, 2018

Facilitating candid dialogue and successful collaborations between grantmakers and grantees. Aiding philanthropic and nonprofit organizations in seamlessly matching resources with needs. Establishing best practices in the strategic use of information and communication technologies among mission-based organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Get Your Social Media Strategy in Shape: Spreadsheet Aerobics. Watech4good Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

I've been lucky enough to be involved with the planning and curriculum development for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop with John and Brownyn as well as (who along with Beverly Trayner, Etienne Wenger, Nancy White , Nick Noakes, Shawn Callahan, Shirley Williams, and Susanne Nyrop.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2012

As the platform has evolved over the past few months, I've been facilitating a few introductory workshops and briefings about Pinterest for nonprofits with a goal of explaining it, what it does, benefits, and examples of how nonprofits and others are using it.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

An advisory group and planning group gave crucial input about the strategy and tactics for this event. World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

In the Jewish community, we’re starting to see “program director” positions start to take on “community facilitator” characteristics. For success is this evolving marketplace, I want attendees to realize that the implications range from mission and strategy, to the nuts and bolts of setting up a Google doc, and everywhere in between.

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

Community Engagement Reinvented: Online Fundraising and Engagement Strategies for the Modern Nonprofit Saturday, March 15 10:30AM. Catch up with nptech friends old and new over a few brews or whatever. Social Media Superpower: Tapping Creativity to Mobilize your Community Saturday, March 15 1:30 PM. 14NTC Parties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Each principle is also illustrated with some practical and tactical advice that ladders up to strategy.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing! That can make it difficult to navigate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

tags: nptech nonprofits ). I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. In Hawaii, each small group had a social media expert to facilitate the discussion - so the mix of beginners with advanced was okay. I set up a wiki.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2011

To facilitate nonprofit blogging, she recently laid out an awesome strategy for getting started. The Pierce Family Foundation noticed the change in nonprofit IT needs, and has a great article on their strategies for funding technology. Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Check it out ! Funding I.T. Funding I.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy. About a year ago, a group of nonprofit technology social media early adopters ran a couple of experiments using FriendFeed and an NpTech room. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Making your data public and accessible has numerous benefits for the organization, but data transparency itself matters because it: facilitates accountability, helps people make decisions, encourages innovation, and keeps systems everywhere running smoothly (from markets to medicines). Because data is powerful!

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2009

The good news is that the thoughtful, well-researched way you put technology strategies and tools to work is going to help your organization get beyond "weathering the storm", ensuring it thrives during this crisis. Fundraising for a 2009 NTC scholarship fund, and facilitating donations of airline miles. You can find me at:

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

In fundraising, we say that the most powerful form of ask is a peer ask, and what is social media if not a perfect medium to facilitate that? Heyman is now a public speaker that provides strategy, messaging, and fundraising consulting for nonprofits and green economy organizations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I'm facilitating a number of storytelling projects in an attempt to measure the effectiveness of how dollars raised are being used to create social change. The beauty of this is that the stories work well as micro content and as an opportunity for engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

Currently, he's developing new viral strategies to increase exposure, traffic, and donations to projects featured on GlobalGiving. He wanted to work for an organization that facilitates bottom-up approaches to sustainable development and after seeing an ad in the Idealist he jumped at the opportunity to GlobalGiving's team.

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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 plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. I have a confession.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Identify the applicable security requirements; a good strategy here is to focus on complying with the strictest requirements you are subject to, compliance will the lesser requirements will usually be inherent. Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Bloglines (nptech account).

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

It's why I felt the need to dive into visual facilitation and thinking techniques as a way to cope with getting "content fried.". Visualize On Paper: Over the past 10 months, I've made a return to paper and markers and using mind maps or visualization techniques to reflect, and plan my week or day.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Tailoring the knowledge transfer and exchange strategy to the audienceâ??s 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. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Comment Notification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. I discovered Amy's NpTech blog about a year ago, maybe longer. So, having this opportunity listen was very valuable.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

Technology facilitates smarter messaging, smarter asks, and more personalized experiences with our organization. All of the data in the world is worthless if we aren’t looking at it, if it isn’t in a format that we can use it to inform our decisions and strategies, and if we aren’t sure what any of it means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Events can take various shapes and sizes: usually with a socializing/networking element + presentations, group discussions, strategy sessions, or sometimes even games - whatever is a good fit for the community. Tags: collaboration conversation guest blogging n2y4 net2 nptech. Please share your ideas in the comments!

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Working with a facilitator, we discussed what each organization wanted to learn from the project (what was “in it” for us), what data would be required (what we had to give), and the conditions under which we could share that data. The project would fail if participants did not trust in each other and the process.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Instead of asking marine conservation organizations to collaborate on messaging, we facilitated their sharing campaigns and messaging ideas with each other, and provided tips and data to help them with their organizational campaigns. Our social mentions from World Ocean Day were unremarkable. So we tried a different tack.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

At the upcoming Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), I will be facilitating a discussion among nonprofit communicators where we'll examine how copywriting, design, structure, color, and more work together to communicate an organization's personality, positioning, and identity. Drop me a line at farra AT bigducknyc.com.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn. During my study and practice of elementary education, there was a drive to create experiences where learning was driven intrinsically.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The strategy is working.

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