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. This was the launch of a peer learning group called “The Networked NGO,” based on [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

I also learned about this NGO from Pakistan that is using social media efficiently to communicate with its stakeholders. Someone asked what the definition of a KPI was, and since I noticed that Tom Kelly who is an expert in evaluation was following the chat, I asked him for a definition. Best definition I’ve seen.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate. 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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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

You can also donate to organizations and projects that facilitate girls' going to school like UNICEF , Room to Read , and Three Cups of Tea author, Greg Mortenson's, Central Asia Institute. What are some of your favorite NGO's and projects helping girls go to, and stay in school? 20) , and add a link to your post on Tara's site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” One of my favorite parts was facilitation a small group discussion on managing information overload in an age of distractions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

I will be facilitating peer learning groups on “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” and sharing many stories of how nonprofits are learning from measurement and making sense of the data to improve social change outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

” I attended a fantastic workshop facilitated by Michelle Gislason , Senior Project Director, CompassPoint, called “ How to Fail Spectacularly (and What You Can Learn from It) ” Here’s a few key takeaways and resources. On Monday, I attended Compasspoint’s Nonprofit Day 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be somewhere in the air between California and India to facilitate a “Networked NGO” training for NGOs in India that are Packard Foundation grantees. More about that later. But I have some exciting news!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Learn more about the technology, business plans and social-impact of (15) Projects who will be engaging with Funders and Entrepreneurs to defend their work’s potential and compete for ~$100k in cash-prizes. Blow your mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

I am serving as the Master Trainer and facilitator for the event. For many years, I served as a board member for an NGO, The Sharing Foundation , that manages an orphanage and many other programs in Roteang Village, including an education program.

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MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive. Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Connecting With Colleagues.

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MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Another blogger, Chak Sopheap , who now works as a program officer at the NGO, The Human Rights Center. In 2007 at the bloggers summit, she facilitated a session about gender and blogging. He continues to write his blog and is a new media specialist at Voice of America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

.&# On the other hand, we could all go back to our respective homes and work towards that in a chaotic, uncoordinated, and distributed way. What emerged as the idea that TechSoup Global, using a networked mindset could facilitate this to happen. Designing for Serendipity. The design for event was superb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities. I asked if there were a set of best practices or design principles in facilitating blog communities. Steve has shared his learnings on facilitating a blog community. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_communities , nonprofit , ngo

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Then we facilitated a series of small groups so they could cross pollinate. Finally, since we were on the Gold Coast on the beach, I suggested that we do a walking debrief on the beach, although we adapted it to the beach promenade. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications, including the Stanford Innovation Review, Asian NGO, NPEngage, Guidestar, Giving Compass and others. This past year was my 4th year as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

We "met" when we both took the incredible Nancy White 's Online Facilitation Workshop. Technorati Tags: nonprofit , development , ict , ngo , nptech , nonprofit This is my "virtual" colleague Joistke Hulsebosch. We've never met face-to-face, but we have many similar interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. I'll start the session with a very brief overview of examples ( NGO in a box - Open Publishing ) and an overview of the CC licenses. Brainstorm a context - ngo, goals, strategy, type of project 2. Here's the description.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

My friends from SMEX.org, Jessica Dherre and Mohamad Najem shared this post about their visit to SF.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

I'll be facilitating a Birds of a Feather session for Green, Social Change & NPO/NGO bloggers on Friday, July 18th from 10:30-11:45 AM. Just a quick post to say that today at 6 PM Pacific Time is the last day to register for the BlogHer Conference. They are selling out. If you've been waiting to sign up, don't delay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

" The online course is designed for coordinators and facilitators of established or potential communities as well as individuals with shared interests in agricultural and rural development.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative. Moreover, Rebecca is a volunteer English tutor for the education charity Action Tutoring and an applicant interviewer and team facilitator for Generation UK which provides specialized into-career courses for disadvantaged individuals.

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