Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Here they are: Rituals.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

How do I determine the best structure for my program? Here are some factors to consider when structuring your membership program: Your organization’s goals. Do you have enough benefits to offer multiple tiers, or is a flat structure right for you? They can also facilitate easy membership renewal Communication tools.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Think about the information that visitors to your site would be seeking first and foremost.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

Your content strategy is a living document, a map that you and your colleagues can use to decide where your content goes on your site and how you will use it to deliberately create intentional ongoing engagement with your organization. Your strategy allows you to create a cohesive picture of the organization across your whole site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. The appendixes include highly curated lists of web sites, articles, case studies, and books.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 16, 2021

The lack of structure can be challenging. They can also help facilitate connections to others in the industry and help you widen your professional network. With just a little research, LinkedIn and other professional networking sites are great ways to connect with those who are making an impact in your field.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) - As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) . I love it.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Assembling a group to travel to one of the organization’s work sites and volunteer. This structured approach works well for busy members who want to make an impact but don’t have a lot of time and like to be plugged in exactly where they are needed. Advisory Boards Need Structure. The most likely reason is time.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) – As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) . 11NTCSocialCRM).

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2012

ThinkShout is facilitating an NTC Drupal Day on April 3rd, 2012, the first day of the NTC. If you're interested in helping out with case studies or other planning/facilitation opportunities as part of the Drupal Day for Nonprofits, give Sean Larkin a shout ! Email Brendan to add it to your registration. 10:45-11am: Break.11-12

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

The ideal social network structure, as well as organizational structure, would contain a mixture of both types of ties between individuals in the network. First of all, a structure must be put into place for mentorship. As for support, both strong and weak ties create a strong network of relational support for an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. .” Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

How can the web facilitate culture shifts? WiserEarth & WiserEarth API – Open database of over 100,000 environmental & social justice organizations anyone can search and webby folk can integrate into their site. 4Change will be structured around a series of questions which all participants can respond to.

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

These core steps will give your event planning team a solid structure upon which you can build your auction strategies. Online auction software for planning the event and facilitating bids is the primary expense associated with hosting your first virtual auction. Develop an event marketing strategy. Encourage early engagement.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference favors networking opportunities over speaker-led sessions and utilizes the “Liberating Structures” facilitation technique to spark conversation and empower innovation. The “on-site” ticket prices ranged from $499 to $2,099 for AFP members; for non-members, the “on-site” price was $2,799.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

This format is structured the same as in-person conferences. Many brands host their event on a virtual event hosting platform that facilitates chat rooms during sessions, pre-recorded sessions, private messaging, social rooms, networking rooms, and more. . This will also be your ticketing site. . What is a Virtual Conference?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. to Paypal or an off-site website form) to do so. Look at the following: (1) Does it have an intuitive navigation structure? (2) And that’s a shame. People Yearn to Express their Love .

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

If you’re heading into 2020 unsure of the state of your site, it might be time for a refresh! Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. What are your goals for your site? Here’s what we’ll cover: Frontend elements of your site. Backend elements of your site. Is it performing well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. One way of conceptualizing this is using blocks to make a structure. What are APIs? So what is an API, really?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Your sitemap is a visual representation of the structure of your website. While it may make it easier for an organization to structure the website according to their org structure, this can be frustrating for users. Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Deliverables.

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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! Structured, but flexible schedule and plan. Agreed upon plan. Evaluation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 30, 2009

Last Sunday at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference, I facilitated a meetup for Changebloggers: Blogging, Podcasting and Vlogging for Good. We started with some structured networking, and then shared changeblogging tips, resources, and success stories. Send them a little link love and give their sites' a click.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2015

CoPs are supported by volunteer organizers who answer questions, facilitate conversations and connections among group members, and plan and implement regular community conference calls, webinars, and tweet chats. Events NTEN couldn’t put on any of our in-person events without the help of on-site volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them. What people, organizations, or online bloggers/sites are in your ecosystem? Some reflection questions to generate insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow. Having a remote team or a hybrid of on-site and remote team members requires a different way of working. Create a Remote Working Team Charter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

It can also facilitate informal communications with other people in the grantee organization. He also added that it is important to have structured information. Transactional capacity building are projects like building a web site or accounting system. Transparency was a theme that came up throughout the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

As a trainer, what I've learned to do is wait until I arrive on site and make sense of it. Then customize the structure to the location. We had a wide mix of levels in the room - from novice to more expert and I was thankful that some of the presenters, like Sorin Matei helped facilitated a small group. I hate that.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

The first three focus on “internal” strategies for keywords, content, and site organization—things you can do within your web properties to optimize them for search. The final three explore “external” tools and strategies to aid SEO once you’ve optimized your site, i.e., what else you can do to boost relevant traffic and high rankings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This can be challenging, but with the right support structure, nonprofits can thrive in this environment. These include: Reduced cost : Virtual fundraisers don’t need an on-site staff or physical venue which saves money. Let’s take a look at the benefits offered by in-person, virtual, and hybrid fundraising.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks. We created a public site to coordinate the group and share their work. We were amazed at how many people were ready to pay to support the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

I'm comfortable using social networks and other social media sites, although I use them as an individual, I see great potential for my nonprofit organization's fundraising efforts. He allowed me to share his story if I stripped out all the identifying details. I am a nonprofit development professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. I blogged about the content last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. Many nonprofits perceive "personal networking" on social networking sites like Twitter to be a waste of time. Seems like facilitative leadership is key. Questions to ponder.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. There are plenty of options ( Google Sites , Ning , and GroupSite , to name a few) that allow you to host discussions and share documents with groups of people relatively easily. This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers.

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