Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

It is a combination of content you create or that has been repurposed from your organization's web site, but also includes what people share. Share your ideas on the WeAreMedia Wiki. When we kicked off the WeAreMedia, A Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits 18 months, we included two areas about content creation. Have a checklist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. The campaign leveraged nostalgia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy. Twitter : A space where we can engage with the community, share ideas, ask for help, get feedback, listen to complaints, participate and mobilize people to help us with our vision of ‘a book in every child’s hand’.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. Deborah Finn was a participant and shared some of her thoughts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

As demonostrated by this project, podcasting can also facilitate visitors creating their own guides and tours. That people have engaged so much with the art that they would be movitated to create their own audio guide and share with others, perhaps people who have never set foot inside the museum before.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Compelling: Never mind the what ; the key is sharing the so what with your audience. 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? The answer is simple, yet confounding: C+C+C = C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

  The game is intended to help you think through a social media strategy and share tips and knowledge.   Each group will be assigned an instructor/facilitator.     I got an email from Demetrio Maguidgad explaining how he remixed the game, how it worked! .  I'm going to remix this again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. It was a little challenging to remix a workshop that would be relevant to these different perspectives and age groups and have people leave the room having learned something. It was eye opening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

  As I mentioned to the group,  it is always a work in progress and this Aloha Remix included some new ideas - the point system, the situation cards, and scenarios that were not all non-profit. s time to rethink and remix everything you knew about marketing.   It made the game incredibly rich - and a key learning. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Mike Connery from OpportunityAgenda shared a fascinating project his nonprofit did in flickr in partnership with students in a media production class. The students had to create an image that was representative of the organization's core values and then create another image that another student could remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The idea is that participants would learn some of the best practices for these social media tactics and then design and implement an experiment and share their results with one another. Ashely shared a mini case study about their Pacifier Campaign. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." We have a mix of experience, from the early adoptors who can share their vast experience to those who are new.". He tracks content to share about local United Ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. I had noticed that there were over 300 groups in Facebook for SurfRider, many remixing the official logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. Anyone can participate or contribute to their Network strategy planning discussions which are also shared on the program's blog. The Innovation program shared a draft of its elevator pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Before I go further, I have thank everyone for the early birthday present - a donation to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? It facilitates free agent fundraising. to support the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

One of her entries, " The Softer Side of Social Media " shares the story of how a friend set up an email account for her niece to email the tooth fairy. " Her forthcoming book Momentum: IgnitingSocial Change in the Connected Age takes an indepth look at the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. Social Learning: Face-to-Face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant. The network effectiveness diagnostic tool included three desired attributes for use of technology for communications: Ample shared space, online and in-person, allowing members to easily connect with one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I've gotten into the habit of asking if there will be confidential information shared and what is or isn't bloggable. Eugene said at the beginning that he would not be sharing any confidential information and that everything is open. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

" asking readers to share their stories about how they got started in social media, first steps, and advice. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. But not many people to share with or remix. a great icebreaker question for Chris.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. And, yes they did ! But it doesn' t always have to be you asking people to donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! The questions that emerged from this group were not different from those that are asked when we talk about online facilitation and online communities. These folks would be perfect participants for Nancy White's Online Facilitation Workhop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects. " 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 4: Offer many ways to people to engage with your campaign.

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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? There are different ways that people are organizing to work together - facilitated and spontaneous. Facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

We resume responsibility not only for our participation, but for sharing back to the communities we come in to the room representing. Her additional points about the use of Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation spurred some additional reflections (boy I feel a writely document coming on.) It is a privilege.

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