Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

Investing in movements or networks for social change is a strategy that some funders are using. The report is written for funders and those on the ground doing the work in the context of networks, although it doesn’t go deep into practice. But, how do you measure the results? Community organizing. Civic engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

One person in the group facilitates and the rest of the groups participates. An After Action Review can produce insights, but participants need to embrace with an open attitude, not blame game. What makes it useful as this detailed description of the method points out. Why did it happen? What was learned?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. The conversations that begin with “We did this and this is what we found …&# can always enrich a workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. Development.

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JUNE 10, 2022

With a unique energy and do-anything attitude, she understands that a community must network and join forces to create and grow successful businesses. She is regularly featured as a presenter at multiple chambers of commerce and local workshops and seminars on networking, event marketing, and sales training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I’m also a champion for the Blue Key Campaign which is using a Facebook Group to coordinate and communicate around our work supporting the campaign. Last year, Darim Online used a Facebook Group to facilitate a virtual book club for the Networked Nonprofit. It was such a terrific post I invited her share it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. Establish the underlying coordinates. Map the data. Draw a conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. Arts organizations are not alone in this. What are they learning from their experiments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . Graphic Facilitation Rocks. Otherwise, attitudes don't change. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. Social Media Skepticism is Healthy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

There is a tension with using social media to support your network. On the one hand, you need to have a clear purpose of what you want to achieve and an understanding of your network members. The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Feeding America is the nation’s leading hunger organization with a network of over 200 food banks serving 37 million Americans struggling with hunger. Dan is the Digital Marketing Manager for Feeding America where he oversees the execution of their external digital strategy which includes social media.

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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. .

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2019

We’re the most connected we’ve ever been – with our friends, social networks and even strangers near and far having constant influence and involvement in our daily lives through messaging, social media, in app social tools, online communities and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

They have reached senior decision-making and leadership levels with the help of models that preceded today’s digital hyper-linked and networked environment with its wide, deep and rapid access to large numbers of people and vast amounts of information. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Fine tells us, "When activist organizations take on the role of working within networks and choose to push power to the edges, they shift from doing activist work to facilitating activist work." " I asked colleagues Katya Andresen and Stacie Mann from Network for Good. Peter identified the pros/cons as: Pros.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2015

RT @npshana If you have an attitude that your fundraising is bothering people, you will never be successful. I’m not sure where this attitude came from, but it’s something I’ve heard from fundraisers for years. It’s the perfect balance of engaging content, facilitated networking and chance hallway encounters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. Networking opportunities. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. This could be financial; some organizations pay people to participate in community meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. is an attitude , not a download. "Put it this way, if you have a quote from Bill Clinton on your site, you are probably not hurting for publicity!"

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. changes in awareness or attitude) or tangible results (e.g. What changes in knowledge, or attitudes, or skills are you looking for, and how might they be measured? NPC Carnival.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

She is an alumna of Up With People and traveled as an Applied Education facilitator with Up with People last fall. My colleagues’ teamwork; there is sort of a “can-do” attitude here where people work hard to come up with creative solutions to inevitable challenges. While in D.C., Continual learning. Find what makes you passionate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts. Old attitudes die hard, and one such attitude is that games can’t be anything more than light entertainment.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Why not apply the same attitude to our own staff? First, let's talk process.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

You’re not only tapping into a new revenue stream, but you’re also building relationships with movers and shakers in your community who can introduce you to other philanthropists in their networks. Ask for a Small Favor The Benjamin Franklin effect describes how people have a more positive attitude towards someone after having helped them.

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