Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. But, as Cecile points out the storyline isn’t about technology or social media, it’s about movement building and the people they serve.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Martin Reed offers some good tips on using Welcome emails to build community. Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses. Content Notifications and Digests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

In past posts, I've talked about: The Secret Life of a Wiki Gardener : Using a gardening metaphor, I drill down into the fine art of wiki facilitation. Here's what lies ahead -- a division and then a bridge between online/offline learning and community/content.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

ECT can be pivotal in resolving conflicts, improving collaboration, nurturing leadership skills, and building trust among team members. Strong workplace communication is necessary to develop leadership skills, improve professional growth, facilitate collaboration, reduce conflicts and misunderstandings, and boost employee engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. They build up an online and offline community, create great projects, and then ask the community to fund them through donations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Countries such as Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa are majorly responsible for skyrocketing adoption rates as citizens try to hedge against currency devaluation and build wealth. MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Offline/Online Mix This is not your mother's or grandmother's black tie dinner dance charity event! While it is an offline event, the organizers leverage their social graphs to invite friends to the event and use social media for all aspects of managing and promoting the event. events morph and change. Charity Ball 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I recently came across the My Colorado Project when Jason Manke connected with me, asking for feedback and ideas about community building and online community engagement tools. My Colorado is our attempt to build a new fundraising model for peer-driven giving and create new tools for planning and tracking your philanthropic footprint.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitated a peer exchange of community foundations that are hosting GivingDays using the Knight Foundation GivingDay Playbook , a guide with templates, tips, and examples hosting a successful day of giving. Engage Online and Excite Offline.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. Some topics of interest for me include: social media measurement, ROI, networked learning, information overload and mindfulness, Civil Society 2.0,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

company; how do you facilitate forex conversion from dollars to naira ? So we set out to build an MVP so everybody who has a domiciliary account would be able to exchange that foreign currency to naira. Let’s say you’re a freelance engineer in Nigeria working for a U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Using the analysis steps below, it can help you be more intentional with online networking, learning, and building thought leadership. These can be done offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Edutopia , a project of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is an online web site that creates and curates content that is distributed through mobile, social media, video, and offline channels. They also have a robust online community. The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

It can also facilitate informal communications with other people in the grantee organization. It is just getting underway both online and offline. He talked about “transformative&# versus “transactional&# capacity building approaches. He also added that it is important to have structured information.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

In a market where internet-enabled app-based banking can reach 300 million subscribers on the continent, USSD technology, predominantly offline and used mainly by feature phones, outpaces it with 850 million connections. And so what we’re doing is building for them, because despite having a smartphone, they want to be offline.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Community Engagement Manager NTEN seeks a community-focused individual with a love for technology, social data, and building community to join NTEN’s Membership team. This work includes online community management, group facilitation, event planning, technical support to participants, and managing related systems.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Building local chapters. Diverse Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. The point I make over and over is that you begin slowly with small steps and build up to your capacity level. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action. Conversational Key Note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

But buying one through the offline and traditional channel could prove to be a painstakingly long and high-risk process. Spinny operates a platform to facilitate the sale and purchase of used cars. The future of car ownership: Building an online dealership. Hundreds of thousands of used cars are sold in India each month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. The Second C: Collaboration. The Obama Girl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. Some identified include: -Build Community -Engage People -Advocate for Policy Change -Coordinate resources and services -Learning Networks - Develop and share best practices -Innovate -Get to Scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. It is basically a pause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. Effective delivery of content and learning experiences takes both on and offline connection.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

DarkMarket was taken offline earlier this year as part of an international operation. The site boasted some 500,000 users and facilitated around 320,000 transactions, reports the EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, with clientele buying and selling everything from malware and stolen credit card information, to weapons and drugs.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Build A Communication Plan for Champions: It is important, especially in an age of media clutter, to encourage your champions to share your messages about the Giving Day. Create Once, Publish Everywhere: This tip is a nod to the need to use multiple channels – email, web site, offline, mobile and social. Click to Download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

It is the trash from the buildings. I attended a panel called "The Future of Social Innovation on the Web" This all-guy panel was facilitated by Dennis Whittle, Global Giving and featured Premal Shah, Kiva.org; Jonathan Greenblatt, Our Good Works; Steve Newcomb, Virgance; and Ben Rattray, Change.org. Ann is an activist and an artist.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Is it easy to see how to give offline? It’s still a much smaller percentage of giving than offline giving, but you don’t want to ignore it. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. Building personas allows you to have empathy for the audience, to put yourself in their shoes. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process.

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TechNode

MAY 24, 2024

Their role is paramount in building a startup bigger from day one, as unique perspectives and entrepreneurial spirit are key factors driving the vibrant growth of new enterprises. For me, it took 10 years of working together with my partner to build a strong partnership. Now we are both best friends and partners.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

As Dan Michel notes, “ Our social media strategy focuses on brand awareness and engagement and is part of an integrated communications strategy. We spend time identifying and building relationships with super-advocates online and engage them — similar to the way you engage major donors or champion advocacy constituents.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 11, 2024

Enter Greater Giving’s guide on building a Strategic Fundraising Calendar —your key to unlocking a prosperous 2024. Integrating Online and Offline Channels Diversify your approach by combining online and offline fundraising channels. Learn how to let the data-driven insights guide you in your planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

but there wasn’t an offline space for that. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. Questions and Discussion.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

Providing a space for online community-building. A member portal encourages community-building. Providing a space for online community building. An accessible member portal is a great way to encourage online community-building, as well as help new members acclimate to the online community. This allows members to: .

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