Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

So, being able do some real time network weaving while the birthday campaign was unfolding was highly satsifying. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few. I got to teach two back to back sessions of the class and it was exhilarating. But it is late, and time for bed! Tags: birthday.

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If your LMS doesn’t make it easy for your association to keep up with this evolution, you’ll quickly fall behind the times. When that guidance is released, your association will want to provide CE to members in a timely, but still effective manner. Proctor and time assessments that have more stringent requirements.

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JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. tagging capabilities to keep things organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

tags: nonprofits socialmedia ). Last week I facilitated a workshop at the Kellogg Action Lab's College of Consultants Convening. I wish I could have attended the other workshops that were taking place at the same time as mine - from David La Piana on Strategic Planning and Dione Alexander from the Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. You also need to use these techniques if you’ve planned too much content and you’re running out of time. You tell participants you might not have time to cover all the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He said that there are only 24 hours in a day and you have to make choices about your time. He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. Every time we see new email in our box, it produces a positive feeling. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Apple's goal is still to sell you a product, but their website design is based on their understanding that they need to invest a lot of time into that transaction. As Seth Godin asked in a recent blog entry , "Do you really expect that the first time we transact, it will involve me giving you money in exchange for a product or service?"

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JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. Assessments are closely tied to learning objectives, or what you want members to have learned by the time they complete the course. What did the last assessment that you took look like? Detail a process. Fill in the Blank.

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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. it takes time for people shift their desktop habit. Maybe more people will share their materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. Live in a tool for a month, and experiment with only one tool at time.

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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. I spent some time in the beginning asking questions and letting people share their experience and perspectives on social media. tags: nptech youth ). This week I put that into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. Tags: guest blogging npblog. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. Colleague Kaliya Hamlin has this description. I do agree/disagree to statements like "Social media is a waste of time" or I do a spectra gram based on personal comfort level and whether or not they feel social media is valuable for their organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And, there were times when situations happened that I had not anticipated. Like the time I was doing a session in an artists loft and the phone jack was 150 feet away and my phone cord was only 125 feet. And, after spending some time rearranging the room, the long cord wrecked havoc on the Internet connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

just in time??? At the same time I discovered places like the Well, ECHO (east coast hangout) and Meta Network (where arts wire has hosted). Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. Note the blink tag! Twitter reminds me so much of that BBS.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. Several times on the tour, Vi said, "I once had someone on a tour who told me." But participatory facilitation can be taught. Passion, confidence, and personal connections to the content--those are the hard things to teach. I avoid them. What made it so special?

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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.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Regulars teach newcomers how to behave and reward other regulars with close friendship. Regulars may drop in multiple times a day. Third places facilitate engagement among patrons, whereas museums and libraries deliver services to patrons. Less judgment of how people use their time. Less prettification of content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Adding a verbal image tag when embedding an image can enhance user experience, especially if the user has software which "reads" web sites aloud. As a rehab teacher, it seems to be what I teach most of the time these days, since there are so many apps that facilitate independent living." Next Steps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). And when I read his transcript and saw his slides , I was intrigued. Bridging Silos.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers. April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. So how about it?

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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. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I try to write there at least 4 times a week. By blog coaching I mean that I teach people how to run a blog. As a heterosexual, middle class white man in the USA, it took me a long time to have it driven into my skull that not everyone relates to situations the same way I do.or How did you discover the nptech tag ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. Some sort of research ???

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

Your members give a lot of time, money, and talent to your church. Your members put a lot of time, effort, and money into supporting your church. Parents and guardians often put off self-care or important errands because finding a reliable babysitter is time-consuming and expensive. The Key to Small Church Fundraisers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Spend enough time driving on the west coast, and you’ll see more of their yellow bumper stickers than I BRAKE FOR VEGANS. The guides pull you, teach you, challenge you, and entertain you. Live facilitation has a varied role in museums. Development costs are one-time; operation lasts forever. Because of the guides.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

It’s that time again: time to meet up at the Nonprofit Technology Conference! This year’s event will have me quite busy so I’m hoping that by putting out some of my plans, we can find time to connect so I can learn more about your work! Tags: events 10ntc netsquared nten presentation. When : 9:00 a.m.

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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." Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. So, armed with an improvised mobile wireless mic, I used an Oprah style facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Meeting June Holley for the first time! Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. Meeting June Holley for the first time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” Then I asked everyone to take a few minutes to write again on the sticky notes, this time about things they like about the Foundation. So, expect more from me soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. I’ll be co-teaching with Mary Joyce, Jessica Dheere and Mohamad Najem and working with an amazing group of people from six Arab countries. The Colbert Report. Source: Leadership for a New Era.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. If you can teach science, how can you be stupid?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. Teaching in an international context. When teaching in different contexts, especially outside of the US, you need to make some adjustments to your context.

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