Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Harvard Business Review, March 2013. Foundation Review (Vol 5:3) Makes the case that most foundation strategies are unfolding in complex and dynamic environments, and foundations need a more committed approach to learning and strategic adaptation. Jacob Harold, “ Nonprofits Master “Medium Data” Before Tackling Big Data.”

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

We have a series of case studies from organizations of different sizes and missions, and we are continuing to collect and share more stories like these - you can review the full set on the website. Be sure to review Successfully Engaging Volunteers in Technology Projects. So be in touch!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 2, 2009

Such an overview would let those interested in participating or facilitating a competition review the full landscape of options, characteristics of each, and so on. Early on in that online chat, the request emerged for a compendium or other list of “all” the Challenges and Competitions focused on social benefit.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Consider using an outside facilitator to help develop questions and protocol and to help identify themes from your data. One benefit of focus groups is the ability for participants to feed off each other’s energy and bounce ideas off one another.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog is up – you can read the post and join the discussion on SSIR , or read the full post below. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? If you have, you certainly aren’t alone.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. SUGGESTED METHOD #2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? Some Learnings on Practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. One organization had particular success using Twitter to facilitate its state policy work. You can read the post and join the conversation over there – it’s also copied below.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

A Review of a Standard Risk: Failure to Meet Program Outcomes. 4 examples of how software can facilitate strong internal controls. You can test whether each “PA” has an attachment and then selectively sample whether the supporting documentation works. This allows for easy analytic review and for the auditors to test documents.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

This wrap up will highlight some of the insights and resources shared during the chat, but, if you’d rather, you can review the full transcript. Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action. real time, and 2. co-created.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The goal was to review each document and separate the poorly written ones from those of acceptable quality. After reviewing more than 200 docu­ments, I’d say we tossed 90 percent into the dumpster and the remaining 10 percent went into a hopper to be rewritten and reformatted. Is the text well formatted?

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

From applications to reviews to reporting, there are a lot of moving parts to a funding program. With a system to help you facilitate application reviews , you can use your grants management software to schedule reminders for when reviews are ready to move to the next stage.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Santa Cruz Collects has garnered rave reviews visually from some of the same people who were dismayed by All You Need is Love. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. Process: A sample exhibition label for one of the collections - incredible toasters from 1906 to 1960.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Blog on the Boards : Where an audience member writes the review of performance and it is posted on the blog. Facilitating people who receive organization???s Here's a sampling of articles: Marnie Webb, CompuMentor Ready to Start Blogging ? American Cancer Society ??? A in the emerging new medium to get their message out there.

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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 panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or check out the repost below. It’s called the #CommBuild chat and was born out of a facilitated monthly Twitter chat called #4change.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

We don't have traditional designer/developers on staff; instead, we have a team facilitating this process and liaising between project participants and fabrication staff to develop these virtual ideas into physical reality. I'm planning a full slate of programming, from museum tours to build classes to design reviews with the pros.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. Sample metrics. Ask “So what?”

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

It isn’t that we need to organize them, but we need to facilitate ways for them to organize themselves. You can get the full report, review charts and data, and more at: [link]. Share the challenges and the problems we want to tackle and asking them to join us in the whole process instead of just asking them to fund something.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? The other thing that you’re going to do to facilitate that conversation is you’re going to. ” You’re going to review the annual, you know, commitment form and have that discussion because you have to remember that board members are busy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And there’s a reason, even in normal times, that people go to their advisor to review a will. And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. Here’s something on Alex’s Lemonade Stand where they share sample language that donors can share with their attorney.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And if you stay for the whole thing, you still get those things and you can review them, you can pass them on to a friend or a colleague. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

Assessments and Review :: evaluating past performance to inform future mobilisation efforts. Why I like this idea: There is not a resource that facilitate learning and experimentation from organizations/networks/individuals who want to use networked approaches for social change campaigns – regardless of issue.

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Journal Change Learning Technology 101

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2010

" 2009 In Social Media: A Cartoon Review – Rob Cottingham, from Social Signal, created a very fun video that recaps all the major contributions of social media to the world in 2009 – think you were on top of it all? This is a race we cannot afford to ignore."

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