Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? Show the question to a group of people and ask them to raise their hands if they have an immediate answer to that question. That's why I asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

One immediate use that came to mind is that if you had a distributed work group (based in US) that was working together, you could have people add photos and brief intro to the map. People could reference the page to visually see the group and get a reminder of time zones. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech Other ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it. New Zealand: Tables for Small Group Exercises. We asked participants to create a name tag comprised of key words of what they learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation. Social Engineering the Small Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Think watchdog groups, corporate score cards, and corruption indexes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? Tags: america giving challenge. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. Does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag ! Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I had a fairly large group and an excellent space to work in. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Next, we did a role-play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

We had a small group and each of us had to speak in front of the group while Heather coached us. When the Group is Quiet: If the group is not responding for whatever reason, don’t tell them they’re being too quiet. Tags: Presenting Training Design. I took one of her workshops recently.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

When it came to the second part of the workshop, the small groups set out and came back with some very clever ideas for making some of their favorite exhibitions more shareable. Tags: design participatory museum. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.)

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MARCH 5, 2009

Organic Groups - since I haven’t personally implemented OG, I didn’t know a lot about the innards, and how it really works. Advanced Theming Techniques - A nice talk given by two folks from CivicActions, once of whom I’d worked with jointly on a client project. I’m very much looking forward to tomorrow.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Here's what you do: Get a group of staff members together around a table. It's much faster to learn with a group of questions than it is to slowly replace a question in the gallery successively over time. Tags: design. About ten is good, but this can work with anywhere from six to twenty. Give everyone a piece of paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

See the range of creative expression in the flickr group. Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used. Tags: twitter. If I remember correctly, it was Robert Scoble who did it first and others took his cue. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

We covered some strategy points, but also had the group tweeting. Participants got to introduce themselves with "just three tags," picking three key words that describe them. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Tactics is doing, moving, and acting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

Given that this was two and half hour workshop at the end of a long day at SXSW, I put to use all the interactive training techniques that I have been teaching nonprofit trainers around the world. We rotated groups and then came back together. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. Movement helps wake them up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy. An example of this creative spirit was when one group created a new card on a napkin. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. Tags: training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. After each participant selected an experiment, we grouped them together and had them work together on setting it up. This is the gift of time.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF). Tags: issues otherblogs socialmedia adoption conversation report research social media ssir.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

I don’t yet have a kindle, so I was thrilled to see this tweet from CuriousLee with a photo he shared on our Networked Nonprofit flickr group. might see some photos popping up in the flickr group of people wearing #netnon t-shirts. I learned about some new techniques for measuring blog stats and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices. For the small group work well, it requires having at least one person with hands-on experience. It worked well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

For example, colleagues using the #squirrel hashtag and we remind each other to focus or suggest other techniques. Explore the Priority In Box tab in the settings and you’ll see that you can group your in box into different priority levels. Tags: Mindfulness. I’ve been using Gmail for many years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. This another area of Steve's interest and expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I'm working with a small group of Packard Foundation grantees on a social media lab where they are implementing different social media experiments. I view it as a focus group that offers content ideas for blog posts as well as to provide another conversation channel to share insights about social media. Tagging photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Learn the techniques of simplify and apply to your social media use. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

After a ten-minute break, participants will reconvene as a group to grill the presenters in each of the areas. Goal: To understand how to use listening strategically and the tools and techniques required. Tags: wearemedia. The Learning Objectives. Final Q&A: 40 minutes. The Breakout Tracks. Listening/Engaging. Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

In the many years that I’ve been designing and delivering capacity building and training, I’ve learned being a guide on the side and helping to surface the knowledge and experience in the group produces far richer learning experiences. I could not imagine doing social media without connecting to peers.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I started with a variation of of the human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. For this group, I felt it was important to ask about personal comfort/experience and whether or not they felt social media had any value for their agency. The group, for the most part, was curious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

At this stage, it is clear that nonprofit and advocacy groups are headed for extraordinarily difficult financial times. Look at it as part of your organization: There have always been good reasons to build your social network, but now it is a matter of strategy and applying the techniques of network weaving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. More Advanced Techniques.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Once you're signed up, the amazing Beth Kanter will get you up to speed and help you choose a project, Here's are some of the projects still looking for volunteers: Group #037 - Pro Pueblo Foundation Corp. Group #007 - Miles for Cystic Fibrosis. Group #021 - CobbWorks, Inc. Group #015 - The Shawn Norris Foundation.

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