Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Basic Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. Here's one of her training presentations. NpTech Conversations. re working with???something

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. It’s very frustrating to see vendors fall over themselves offering ‘open’ tools when it’s impossible to use for many clients because of these performance problems and/or capacity controlled API functions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Crowds Can Not Be Trained Like Seals by Beth Kanter. Here’s an overview of the different types and some examples for each in philanthropy and doing. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. A group of individuals has more knowledge to solve a problem than a single individual. This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing. How do you evaluate this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The lab used human design facilitation techniques that I have been trained on by Luma Institute. We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). This campaign melded multiple ideas for a mashup and multiple dimension, campaign approach.

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