Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In my last reflection, I talked about balancing participation on home base and outposts. The stuff that people like to contribute are: their own links and brief descriptions, resources, and quick tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. Additional Resources. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Takeaways. Visualization Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. Dave points to a couple of resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ). s feelings of ???responsibility???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I used the wiki a flip chart - so the leave behind is the slide deck, notes, and a few resources. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. In fact, you need these skills to really reap the benefits of your professional online network. I feel really inspired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Trainer Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. In her spare time, Nancy also moderates online facilitation , another long running Internet discussion list and maintains an excellent wiki , chock full of invaluable resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Frank Barry offered to do compile a list of movement building resources and nonprofit examples and I've added a posts/resources from the last few years. Below you will find some great resources to help you learn more about creating a movement. Social Movement (Wiki). What's A Movement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2008

Nancy White asked some great questions that lead to some good reflections. For more resources on this topic, see my personal fundraising wiki. I stayed up last night for a discussion about fundraising on social networking sites. You'll find the slides, a recording, and notes on the FLNW blog. Some people don't like to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. I always include a good list of resources, particularly how-to steps, videos, and screencasts. First, it saves a lot of paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

A number resources were shared and interesting points made during the back channel which I summarized here The first day I presented a brief over view on social media for external communications which included 8 principles. The game wiki is here. During the session, I live tweeted the notes using the hashtag #packnet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. But the short definition is: "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. But that was last month's thinking, the Webinar gave me a chance to reflect and incorporate new learnings, particularly with some of the professional tools. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Screen capture here : I've been running small experiments on the art of retweeting for a couple of weeks and it's time for a reflection. . Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki. Some Resources: Just getting started with Twitter? Here's the five minute start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. I was also able to share the workshop wiki. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here. We then did our respective workshops on strategy and tactics and then reconvened as a whole group to do a little bit of a reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

Nonetheless, the reflection questions are very valuable and important to incorporate in your strategy planning and reflection process. And usually have to submit reports that demonstrate "impact." Nonprofits need to learn the insights and also understand the value of the investment. going beyond clicks and impressions)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A. The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

I asked people to share a couple sentences about their experience from your nonprofit organization, or point to an excellent resource and add a sentence to describe it. Twenty people made contributions - although 7 contributions were made by "guests" - people who didn't register for the wiki. Reflections and questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Technology for Communities project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). Prizes will offered too!) How to identify and do more case studies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

You can find the slides and resources at my Arts and Social Media wiki. I've been keeping an inner ear for that and when I spew jargon - I mock myself in front of the group and translate. It gets a good laugh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing. The presentation wiki and resources can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

An introduction to analytic tools and individual/team reflection processes The panelists included Sarah Granger, Danielle Brigida, Wendy Harman, and Qui Diaz. How to listen to improve the results of your social media strategy implementation 2. An understanding of the right metrics to use and how/when to incorporate qualitative information 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). Evaluation should also include your personal reflection. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain. Then, I asked people to report out the burning questions and add them to the wiki page set up for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Think about some of the changes reflected by this typewriter, manufactured by E. The adoption of the typewriter, at just the same time that women began to work in offices, reflected changes in women's roles, new ideas about the organization of work, and the rapidly growing corporations of the day. Remington & Sons around 1875.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It also serves a resource leave behind! I discovered this post from Alec Couros , reflecting on his recent presentation in a wiki for emerging technology. I opted for the wiki-presentation method. m sure they wouldn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I have a confession. The Blog Usability Checklist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, we explored questions about how nonprofits go about planning their social media efforts and various resources are summarized here. We created a worksheet with more detailed questions adapted and remixed from CCTV's wiki. The action - feed -reflection process is very important. I found 3 really good planning templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

I'm just back from the red eye and really tired - and wanted to capture a few reflections about network effectiveness and resourcing. One of the things we discussed was were strategies for resourcing the World Cafe. My Necklace/USB holder. The World Cafe is structured as a 501-c3, but it is really a network. Dave founded ???Spot

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. If resources are available, software such as, NVivo, will make the early stages of your analysis a little less time consuming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Under this program, the Foundation invites a mid-career professional, accomplished in their field to be in residence at the Foundation to be a resource to staff and complete a project to benefit the field. . My writing on this blog does not in anyway reflect official Packard Foundation policy. What does that mean? My office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0 20" or "Social Media.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. What’s important to note here is that unlike wiki or websites, the direct forms of content creation, with Ushahidi citizens only needed to know the number to which they send reports from their phone. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. After a very successful three days I had some time to reflect about what made this technology initiative such a success. Knowing your audience: what they want to get out of the online portion of the event (e.g.

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