Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. There are examples (see below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Last fall, we marched all 350 or so Environmental Defense Fund staff through two days of a social media challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Making it easy for your champions to do the work is also important and you’ll find lots of templates and examples that you can remix on the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook and toolkits on the GivingTuesday site. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Hawaii Social Media Game View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate. tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ).     Would this mix of levels be a recipe for disaster? . 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Part of the Hawaii Social Media Club Workshop.    The Social Media Game.   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.   It's Hawaii Geek Week !  

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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. She is the third person to mention a remix. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. tags: nptech youth ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. Mary’s remix simplified the tool selection to what was being taught during the TOT. It boils down to audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

I was curious how a large national network with local affiliates approaches a social media strategy in a networked way. Iavor says they started with an over arching strategy, "We had to think through what we do as a brand in the social space and how it relates to our business goals so we could deploy social media strategically."

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

By Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Founder, Social Media for Nonprofits. Is "Top Ten Social Media Fundraising Tips, as Featured at Social Media for Nonprofits " such a compelling topic that droves of nptechies turn out to cast their ballot, or is something else afoot? 379 is my new magic number. Ed note: it's true, by a longshot!].

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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. For starters, podcasting can liberate art lovers from the museum's clunky audio sets and enjoy the Museum's "Official Audio" more stylist piece of equipment. Which is something a musem would want to embrace, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

The online facilitation list recently had a thread about choosing wikis. I found the above image in Flickr under a license that allows me to remix it -- so I changed the title. I'm also reminded of Andy Robert's wiki on wiki facilitation. Origina l photo CC by license in Flickr User Start Cooking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

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. We had some discussion about how the photos were licensed in creative commons to facilitate this remixing. Anyway, here's the flickr set.

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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. The method is simple - they test their ideas, if it works they build on it and if it doesn't they remix. Witzel notes, we don't have the barrier of "paralysis by analysis.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

Her focus is on "the ways that digital tools, particularly social media, are enhancing our connectedness to one another and our ability and willingness to work for the collective social good." when introducing it to people -- it made want to play with the idea -- social media and the tooth fairy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Every year I do a fundraising campaign using social media. For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

There is a tension with using social media to support your network. Over the past two years, the Packard Foundation has worked in partnership with Monitor Institute to explore how networks were changing the social sector. (If I did a presentation on social media and nonprofits in the afternoon. Photo by Thiago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. Here's the description. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Here's the focus: Okay, so Chris prefers to say he's not an expert, but that he advises people on social media use. That doesn't change the fact that he's smart and savvy on the social media front. " asking readers to share their stories about how they got started in social media, first steps, and advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Check out Train for Humanity that weaves together getting fit, social media, and raising funds for 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

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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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. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. Social Strategies.

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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

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.) Another way to involve remote participate is to set up a remote tracks using speakers and facilitators who are the live event. It is a privilege.

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