Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. Marty Kearns has a diagnostic tool over in his Advocacy 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta. Use Learning Theory. This book is a must-have for any serious trainer.

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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 brought along their chimes which are a great tool for getting people's attention when they are working in pairs or small groups. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Big visions often mean higher likelihood of disappointment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up. First, it saves a lot of paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. The professional tools for monitoring and analyzing social media data can be expensive and pose a steep learning curve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Not wanting to miss an opportunity to play with my new toy, err, learn how to use my new tool, the Nokia N95, I did a live broadcast of our dinner. More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). What role do technologies such as blogs, wikis and social book marking might play in your community???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools. What are some tips and techniques? How do you scale?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

This prevents making tool-based decisions. I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. An example of this creative spirit was when one group created a new card on a napkin.

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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. Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. . Over the Shoulder Learning on Steroids: Social Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Closing the Triangle : This is a network weaving technique of introducing people in your network. Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools. Bytes of Wisdom or humor : I share some geek humor now and then.

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Forum One

MARCH 4, 2009

Federal government web managers and IT staff (and their peers at large nonprofits and foundations) face a constant and growing barrage of requests from departments, initiatives, programs, and projects for project workspaces, social networking, wikis, blogs etc. tools ( here's a nice compilation ). tools ( here's a nice compilation ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. To meet people where they already are, we created a Facebook group and wiki site to share information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project will be discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. There is a difference between market research (using surveys, focus groups, and interviews to collect data) and listening (using social media tools). What are some advanced techniques for listening?

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

The final list will be available over at the client's workspace on Omidyar, a wiki-like space. I am also eager to test out some of the tools and ideas I learned about social search during the Yi-Tan call. I'm specifically looking for conferences in these general theme areas: Nonprofit. Nonprofit Technology. Technology. Social Change.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. I'll be curious to read more of these experiments.

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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. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. 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

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

tools and websites. tools and websites (circumvention techniques, online petitions and campaign.). tools and websites (circumvention techniques, online petitions and campaign.). applications either via the Advocacy Wiki site or by e-mail through the contact page. the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques. The tools used will include (but not limited to) a combination of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

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. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Are you up-to-date on the latest tactics and techniques in your area of focus? Jennie Anderson of AIDS.gov and William Neuheisel of DC Central Kitchen, who work on communications at their respective agencies, share some of their tactics and techniques. Are you credible? Are you acting responsibly with your financial resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Each case study will showcase a different outcome, metric, and tool and share some words of wisdom. tools -- Eve Smith , Danielle Brigida , Carie Lewis , and Wendy Harmon. I will kick off the session with a brief overview and Justin Perkins will share specific techniques and tools like the Social Media ROI Calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Why map your network with a software tool? How technical?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

I taught two workshops ( notes are on the wiki.) In the afternoon, we took a deep dive into the listening techniques. This group undertook several months of two-way mentoring - brief sessions learning about the tools and each other's work flow needs. The Nonprofit Communicator blog has a round up of local reaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

blogs, Twitter, wikis and various widgets (like IM interfaces that help people connect, converse, swap ways of doing things and gather feedback from colleagues and customers). Crowdsourcing collective wisdom refers to the aggregation of anonymously produced data from groups of independent, diverse and decentralized people (crowds).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

tools and techniques. tools, a couple of good mini-case studies, (the one about the Nitrogen Wiki ) and a focused list of references from the philanthropy world. tools, a couple of good mini-case studies, (the one about the Nitrogen Wiki ) and a focused list of references from the philanthropy world.

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