Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Tags: training materials. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She gave a brilliant presentation that shared the story of footing binding in China and how using a networked approach and network weaving techniques, they were able to change the practice in a decade. . She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. Tags: network weaving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. One value of a blog is at least I captured my reflections from several months ago and a workflow diagrams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. 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. tag: [link]. Technorati tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Reflection at the end to harvest learnings. Tags: scholar working wikily. Photo by Goldberg. Exploratory and creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. If I was in a room, live, I would have facilitated a brief conversation about the themes and interjected the themes into conversation - and then summarized them succintly with the slides. These are shorter sessions focused on tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience.

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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

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. And because listening and learning more techniques versus outcomes - and techniques that you need to use continuosly, those became the dotted links knitting the outcomes together. . Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Most of the social media tools and tag lines did translate, although there isn’t specific Arabic concept or phrase for “user-generated content.&#. Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

1 : Blogging Community/Community Blog - Basic Definitions This post was my reflection after taking a fabulous online workshop with Nancy White that included a link to Steve Shu's post and a question about "Can Community Blogs be facilitated?" Technorati Tags: digital_divide , blogging_communities , net2 , nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

I participated in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop last fall where one of the participants was the thoughtful Nick Noakes who is the Associate Director for the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching at a university in Hong Kong. " He talks about the difficulty in removing the "geekiness."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . Tami Simon offered a self-reflection on her technology use, she's a blackberry user, sharing her inner feelings on why she grabs her blackberry on a Friday evening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). I'll facilitating week 5 along with Shawn Callahan and Susanne Nyrop that is focused on helping participants summarize their learnings and think through implementation. I'll also be doing a field trip of the NpTech Tagging Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. Tags: crowdsourcing. Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits? What are the best resources, including blogs, books, and articles?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Two gems shared by a participant was this leader board of healthcare tags and this twitter tool that lets you look up your legislator’s Twitter handle by zip code. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. Some participants got frustrated along the way, but part of the learning was to make time and space for reflection to get to deeper insights and improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? Some places I want to go.

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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. Tags: network effectiveness. Communication tools are appropriate given member skills.

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JUNE 13, 2008

And this week, I had an aha moment about a designed listening technique: conversations with computers. The facilitator is functionally another visitor, one with whom the participant is not only willing but eager to speak. But Storycorps still requires facilitators, and it asks a lot of its participants.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Before the event we used the Knowledge Garage to share document resources with participants, promote discussions and idea sharing, and to facilitate online connections so participants could better connect with each other when the Summit began. Tags: Collaboration Communication Strategy Technology. Be creative AND flexible.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. The visual design of your website should be bold and accurately reflect your organization’s brand or identity. Sharing updates and information on your campaigns or projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. What do you think are some of the evolving best practices and techniques using these tools? and I knew where I could find it.

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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." The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? Tags: sxsw training materials.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? They also want to avoid stories or perspectives that reflect hateful or offensive views toward other people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

I gave a keynote about the Human Side of Data for Good and facilitated a mini-innovation lab to brainstorm creative ideas around the challenge of communicating about the value of shared data and becoming the community knowledge center for shared data for donors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders. Data Facilitation'

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag.

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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. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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