Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. Here’s an overview the tips and resources I shared. Don’t wing it alone.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. Do you have one in place?

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Great conversation, a little bubbly, and treats at the Innovation Summit. Teri Carden, Founder and CEO of 100 Reviews , facilitated a panel discussion on how to turn your next great idea into gold. Sharon will facilitate a 360-degree discussion about trust. Just what we missed in 2022! Leadership. Creating Community.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Is there expertise we can share? Are there connections we can facilitate? This big little idea was simply to hold space for CDOs to talk about what’s stressing them out and share experiences, ideas, and lessons learned with others who are facing the same challenges and finding their way through. How can we retain talent?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

As we grow older, storytelling is the means by which we engage with our friends and family to create shared understanding, and eventually with our employers and workmates to establish alignment around a mission. WhatsApp offers an appealing and efficient method of sharing documents and other materials among members of a team.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I understand how the varied APIs work, and have to keep on top of whether I should be using a “like&# or a “share&# button for Facebook. In other words, I don’t avoid social media, I use it a lot, and I actively facilitate my clients use of social media integration with their web presence. (

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or check out the repost below. It’s called the #CommBuild chat and was born out of a facilitated monthly Twitter chat called #4change. How do you collect and share content now?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. Communities share, pass on, and constantly expand a collective wisdom and knowledge from experiences, events, movements and legacy. Principles.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. And here’s how to start! How To Start a Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

The overtouting of conversation as the ultimate metric of mobile and social media success has unfortunately been overdone. To engage effectively is to respond genuinely to questions and comments and facilitate the discussions that your followers are having with each other. This is both ineffective and a poor investment of time.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

While each organization varies in size, locales, and causes, technology can help facilitate workflow. The ability to save, share, and collaboratively work in one area without duplicating efforts can save organizations a lot of time. Collaborative meetings and deadlines can be easily tracked with a shared calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Here are the ones we featured: It’s (not) only a napkin: Share your name. Share your name.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I’ve been having conversations with my team, friends in the industry and fellow CEOs about what to expect in 2022 and we all agree that next year will be another wild ride. Last Friday, for the first part of the Matrix Group holiday celebration, I hired a facilitator to run a group discussion about the year we’ve just had.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Explore Future Impacts Tom believes it’s MTI’s responsibility to initiate conversations about anything that might impact the heat metal industry. We’re forcing these conversations, Tom says. There’s no other framework that allows you to come together as a group of people or companies and facilitate or fight for a cause.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly. Discussions about best practices, strategic planning sessions, or board development exercises can launch conversations about how and when to evaluate the board’s performance.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

An Easy Workflow Conversion? Data Conversion or Reckless Migration? Data conversion is more complicated than most want to admit. If this is not the case, your provider could also use some purposely designed conversion tools. On the other hand, tools now exist to move just about anything to anywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

We are not used to conversations with another person while we are staring in a mirror. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. The one I like the best is called “Two Pictures” where everyone shares 2 pictures about anything unrelated to work and spends some time sharing it with the team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The over-touting of conversation as the ultimate metric of mobile and social media success has unfortunately manifested itself by many nonprofits mass thanking followers for their follows or retweets and posting “Thanks!” On mobile and social media, whoever shares, posts, tweets, and features the best content wins.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Track your open rates and conversions (do they open the email and then do they actually make a gift) – open rates are important to measure, not just conversions and gifts. Share the challenges and the problems we want to tackle and asking them to join us in the whole process instead of just asking them to fund something.

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EveryAction

MARCH 29, 2023

While every situation is unique, there are three main components to consider in order to be successful: First, audience insights always come first; second, you need to know how to talk to your target audiences; and finally, while you’re working hard to facilitate and drive impact, your supporters are the real heroes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2019

As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Share it in the comments.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 11, 2024

Create and manage different volunteer groups To encourage and facilitate conversation between your member volunteers, use your online community platform to create different groups. If your volunteer program is large, you might want to add more groups to ensure conversation flows more freely.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Workshops, ideation sessions, and other conversations with stakeholders are how we draw out, understand, systemize, and ultimately incorporate the heart and soul of any organization or effort into a strategy or tool. Facilitation. When facilitating the session, keep your role in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Understanding: Methods for Analyzing Challenges and Opportunities.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here are a few statistics that we shared: 27% of Americans say they have not too much or no confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interest ( Pew Research ) 39% of Americans, a record-high, say they don’t trust the media at all. Many attendees expressed surprise over the trust statistics that we shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

My work as a trainer and facilitator has brought me to many places in the world. Often, the training on-site is the beginning of project which includes facilitating sessions remotely across time zones. you automate the conversation, there is less of change of having “time zone dyslexia.”

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The recent focus on social determinants of health adds even more energy to the conversation about exchanging and updating agency, referral and service data. Each of organization shares a common interest in making it easier to share resource directory information in real-time. Your Visionlink Team

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Shape the Conversation . Once you have a good handle on the subject matter, consider how you might want to shape a conversation on the topic with your key stakeholders.

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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. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here. You can do a whole network analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps that offered features like chat, desktop sharing, polling, white board, sticky notes, and audio and video conferencing. It is between the two methods. This helped us do a better job of sense-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy. What I also love about this process is that allows for emergence of the unexpected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks?

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