Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. That has more influence sometimes than an "expert." James Leventhal was sharing a table with two participants from SFGMC who were skeptical about Twitter. I would welcome your thoughts on how to do that.

Social Media 95

Social Media Reflection Social Media 95

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly. You’ll want to enlist directors with influence to champion the idea. Sometimes an outside facilitator can move members forward more quickly. Reflect Positive Outcomes Yes, it can be hard to put behavior in the spotlight.

Evaluation 193

Evaluation Director Leadership Government 193

sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2025

Challenges and Trends in Funding Grantee Well-Being Ultimately, creating a culture of well-being in the nonprofit sector requires a collective commitment from funders to leverage their resources and influence to champion this shift. So, they asked: what can we do right now with the resources and influence we do have and build from there?

North Carolina 85

North Carolina Philanthropy Foundation Fund 85

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language.

Collaboration 221

Collaboration Marketing Integration Trend 221

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language.

Collaboration 221

Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

This is using bogus social media metrics to translate into some value. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric. The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience.

Social Media 118

Social Media Measure Media Social 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

Synchronous 50

Synchronous Facilitation Practice Online 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Note: This guest post was published on the Packard Foundation OE Blog reflects what was learned from designing and delivering leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. That’s why we’ve included a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofits to apply the ideas and frameworks.

Professional 93

Professional Develop Nonprofit Leadership 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Works with free agents , champions, and influencers to spread their mission. I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. As part of my learning journey to put these ideas into practice, I’m integrating visual techniques into my facilitation repertoire. Two things I did.

Social Media 101

Social Media Effective Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them.

Social Media 118

Social Media Media Social Nonprofit 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Hubs: People or organizations that have lots of connections, also called “Influencers”. Have each person identify influencers that they may or not know to help them reach their objective.

Network 127

Network Nonprofit Map Exercise 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Twitter reflections and insights have been the air. There are lots of different applications and tools that you can you to facilitate your listening style, although as Jeremiah Owyang notes true useful business tools haven???t Because you can see who influences me, and who I influence." t really emerged, but it???s

Twitter 92

Twitter Nonprofit Influence RSS 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

The two-week fundraiser had nine teams of social media influences and celebrities competing against each other to raise for money for nine different charities. Last month, I did a reflection interview after the event with her to discover what worked and what didn't. Britt Bravo has some terrific advice. .

Charity 50

Charity Facilitation Organization Tips 50

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

Women wield greater economic power than ever before and are harnessing their influence to lead change on these issues and beyond. As women’s wealth and influence climb, we have the opportunity to strengthen the momentum of women as grantmakers and redefine what it means to be a philanthropist.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Honduras Donor Influence 98

Tableau

AUGUST 6, 2021

One way is to increase access to data and facilitate analysis and innovation by migrating to the cloud. This influences important behavioral changes in how people use data to collaborate, innovate, and solve business problems. times more likely than data-aware organizations to use data to influence decisions 1.

Culture 98

Culture Data Time Literacy 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media.

Social Media 50

Social Media Influence Media Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few. For now, enjoy Amy Sample Ward's reflection on crowdsourcing a surprise party ! I met Spencer Brodsky last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda.

Cambodia 94

Cambodia Social Media Rwanda Celebrate 94

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Collaborate with influencers: Partner with social media influencers or advocates who align with your cause. Offer customized swag: Create personalized swag bags or merchandise that reflect the values and interests of different age groups. These offerings can appeal to both your current and next-gen donors.

Donor 104

Donor Network Fundraising Social Media 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I don’t bother with click rates or influence leader board scores. Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint.

Twitter 112

Twitter Tools Learning Measure 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

Knowledge 101

Knowledge Goal Share Giving 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. What was our learning?

Collaboration 93

Collaboration Learning Online Exercise 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

Report 97

Report Social Social Media DC 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

But this takes a different kind of management approach , rather than organize them, nonprofits need to facilitate Millennials to organize themselves. (Cat Cat herding skills?). If nonprofits want to understand Millennials, they need to talk to them, put them on their board.

Donor 97

Donor Conference Virtual Leadership 97

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2012

1 Cooperation has proven to be efficient in enduring through meager means, 2 and expectation among donors reflects this philosophy. It facilitates knowledge distribution because it deeply influences one’s willingness to share. Trust also influences the accuracy and level of information shared.

Collaboration 81

Collaboration Research Arizona Journal 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Key influencers take action, including media. How do you facilitate others on staff to create content when they might not be have strong content skills? What tools do you use to manage the your editorial calendar and content creation process? Amplify peers’ efforts. Communications have more impact. Solicit and share stories.

Network 98

Network Strategy Learning Build 98

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Led by founder and CEO Olugbenga “GB” Agboola , Flutterwave facilitates cross-border payments transactions of small to large businesses in Africa via one API. affiliated business involved striking partnerships with fintech giants such as PayPal, Visa , Discover and Worldpay FIS to facilitate global payments with Africa.

Africa 98

Africa San Francisco Global Egypt 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Much of this spending falls under the importation of products, primarily influenced by consumer demand and the positioning of major e-commerce platforms in Africa. Afrikrea , an Ivorian startup founded in 2016, is one of the few platforms facilitating product exports. It has raised a $6.2

Africa 111

Africa Raise Social Media Channel 111

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We also need to ask questions, experiment, solicit feedback, reflect on surprises or mistakes, learn from others, and habituate other Learning Zone strategies. Each of us can regularly reflect on how well the habits we’re engaged in are working and what adjustments we want to try. Briceño : This depends on the situation.

Learning 105

Learning Free Culture Reflection 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively). What do you do to facilitate it? It can also influence traffic. What is your thought and reflection process for insight harvesting? Are there patterns?

Metrics 81

Metrics Social Media Strategy Media 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Remember bookmarked items can also positively influence your blog traffic. What do you do to facilitate it? It can also influence traffic. Hard data points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn’t make it efficient to grab data over time. Are there patterns?

Measure 95

Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2013

service agencies whether public or private are faced with three overarching issues: the dramatically growing population, the different values and cultures based on their heritage and levels of acculturation, and the different life contexts which influence their needs.

Phoenix 71

Phoenix Program Community Resource 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. It also facilitates conversation with people who are not in the room. Here are a few main points of the second half of the presentation that resonated on the backchannel: anilkanji : Social influence: should orgs measure reach or affinity? Tweets from people not in the room.

Charity 91

Charity Conference Social Media Org 91

Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Savory’s mission to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands is fueled by the generous support of its donors, and recurring giving has become a crucial source of revenue in their goal to influence the management of 1 billion hectares by 2025. Savory: Become a Regenerating Member.

Donor 84

Donor Gift Cancer Sudan 84

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

According to the authors, to develop Touchpoint Leadership, a leader needs to focus on three developmental domains : Personal Interpersonal Organizational More specifically, to succeed in Touchpoint Leadership, a leader must: Bring his/her full self to interactions with others by developing self-awareness, a clear moral compass and deep reflection.

Leadership 45

Leadership Collaboration Create Facilitation 45

Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

This might seem like the last thing you have time for; however, it is critical because how it is received strongly influences future decisions around budgeting, staffing and other resourcing going into next year. The post Year-End Reporting: Data-Driven Ways to Tell Your Story appeared first on Forum One.

Story 87

Story Report Data Analysis 87

Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

By keeping your mission on the top of their minds, you can utilize board members’ skills, enthusiasm and influence to improve your nonprofit as a whole. This initial reflection will help your nonprofit identify your strengths and weaknesses and determine how you can grow. Let’s begin.

Facilitation 52

Facilitation Consultant Donor Fundraising 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

It brings up some reflection questions about online community, knowledge sharing within a community of practice, and moving a community from one platform or technology to another. How does the digg structure/functionality/community design influence the quality of the resources collected? Consumer - you can just read what's there.

Digg 50

Digg Nptech Feeds Tag 50