Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? Tags: america giving challenge. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. Does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. We rotated groups and then came back together. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. Movement helps wake them up. Even just a simple stretch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I had a fairly large group and an excellent space to work in. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Next, we did a role-play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices. This group was one that was comfortable learning in public and modeled it.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF). One organization had particular success using Twitter to facilitate its state policy work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. After each participant selected an experiment, we grouped them together and had them work together on setting it up. This is the gift of time.

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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. . Tactics is doing, moving, and acting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. What are some tips and techniques? Tags: wearemedia. It is time for the community to write the Hollywood ending ! What is a social content strategy? WAMdeep (November 15th - 30th).

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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. 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

APRIL 2, 2009

As technology steward for an online community of practice or facilitator of a group that wants to work together online, it is valuable to do this exercise to help you get a better understanding. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection. Tags: visual thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute. We worked in small groups by network purpose. The network needs to conduct self-evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. More Advanced Techniques.

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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. Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Collective intelligence refers to the outcomes generated by pooling knowledge from diverse groups, using it to research and debate and then refining the resulting understanding into useful and actionable information. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator. Tags: crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. I invited folks to join the nptech group. Maybe more people will share their materials.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. Wherever possible, Vi personalized the tour to individuals in the group. At one point, when talking about the Chinese men who had built the railroads in the Western US, she asked each man in the group how tall he is. But participatory facilitation can be taught.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Tags: Conferences Free Agent. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). I'll facilitating week 5 along with Shawn Callahan and Susanne Nyrop that is focused on helping participants summarize their learnings and think through implementation. I'll also be doing a field trip of the NpTech Tagging Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. James assembled a group of funders and the talented Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area , a local arts service organization to help implement project. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. If you're going to do something sophisticated, like integrating your grants management system with your grantee community, be sure you have very solid management support, a healthy budget, and a very patient stakeholder group. Tags: Influence Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. Tags: network effectiveness. How do work in a networked way and not get overloaded?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others. Tags: Information Coping Skills streamline. Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Conference or Event Blog: A group blog is set up for the specific event or conference. This might work best for a group where some post-event action on the ideas captured during the event might be anticipated. tools, but what happens when you have a group of people who may not be? Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. What's it like behind the firewall facilitating everyone in the organization to embrace social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

One might think that it would be difficult to sustain a truly interactive experience, but the way Ethan and Rebecca facilitated - it was an intense day-long conversation. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. tag: [link]. Technorati tag: [link]. Flickr tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I met a lot of fantastic videobloggers as well as learned a lot through the discussion on production values facilitated by David Tames. Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. The classic technical glitch for me was doing a presentation at the Cloisters in NYC for a group of arts education teachers. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. This was circa 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Finally, they are commonly used by school and family groups as learning places. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces.

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