Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. There was a large mind map on the wall with a prompt in the middle encouraging visitors to imagine a slightly distant future with no staff present to enforce the rules in galleries or museums.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

You’ll also want to consider the design of your materials, leaning into visuals over heavy text and keeping messaging digestible. The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. Map Out Your Email Strategy in Advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Brilliance by Design by Vicki Halsey. A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Some really good design points.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Also, the caliber of other workshop facilitators was definitely a plus! Bush, Ph.D.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

To that end, they designed and executed three projects: Xavier , an opportunity for visitors to "talk" with a sculpture in the exhibition via magnetic quotation boards and alphabet fridge magnets. All of these were designed intentionally to support the exhibition goals around multi-vocality, surprise, and relationships among artworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Visit the United Way's LIVE UNITED ™ site and run your mouse over the map. It's the agency's campaign designed to inspire individuals across the country to help advance the common good through giving, advocating and volunteering in the areas of education, income and health. Wondering where he got that awesome T-shirt?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2010

Oldenburg is the individual to whom the term "third place" is attributed, and this well-researched 1989 book put him on the map. Oldenburg celebrates places that are less structured, less designed, less facilitated, and less content-rich than most museums want to be. While it hasn't happened here in awhile, a new Museum 2.0

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

Big Local was designed from the outset to be radically different from other funding programmes. Although the board facilitates the programme, it is the young people themselves who run the weekly meetings and activities independently. A User-Led Approach to Grant Management System Design.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Today, a conversation with Elisa Giaccardi , from the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design at University of Colorado , Boulder. Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast. They really got things done, and they designed a very strong network and a very strong set of values and principles and goals for the coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. What's your strategy map? What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe. Which one worked best?

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Drawing national attention to an important issue (and a good bit of recognition for your organization the process).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

See side links for different examples of individual and organizational nonprofit and nonprofit technology blogs or click on the " Bloggerviews " for interviews with a few). Walker Art Center New Media Blog Interview with New Media Designer Community Programs Blog Interview with community program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. The maps are made by community members.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Interactive maps of the auction venue. Provide virtual tours or detailed maps that allow potential bidders to explore the space where the auction will be held. Prepare compelling stories or interviews that resonate with the local audience, and provide high-quality images or videos that these outlets can use in their reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). If you want to dig in, you can learn more here: Interview in the Guardian. My blog post with slides and links.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We’re going to be using strategic planning processes to talk about how we can engage folks in helping to design the services, the programs, the community infrastructure that we all live in, right? And so today’s topic is Power of Community and Strategic Planning. They want to invest more time, more resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

There are social network applications designed to facilitate free agent fundraisers, for example Facebook Causes Birthday Campaign and some of the earlier experiments over at Social Actions. Last month, I did a reflection interview after the event with her to discover what worked and what didn't. What's your take?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. payday loans), subpar products (e.g.,

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