Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. Mary’s remix simplified the tool selection to what was being taught during the TOT. It boils down to audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

It is also content created by your supporters that they share through social outposts and that you re-purpose and remix back through other channels including your web site. There is a balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. It's how you use the conversation to generate, aggregate, and facilitate social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Also, for our Creative Commons licensed books to be remixed/repurposed by the community in whatever way they wish to. Flickr : Documentation of the work we do and also to upload our Creative Commons licensed illustrations so that they can be remixed/reused. (See See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

As demonostrated by this project, podcasting can also facilitate visitors creating their own guides and tours. For starters, podcasting can liberate art lovers from the museum's clunky audio sets and enjoy the Museum's "Official Audio" more stylist piece of equipment. Which is something a musem would want to embrace, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

  Each group will be assigned an instructor/facilitator.      He has reiterated this game over and over for different audiences and circumstances and I've remixed the game for filmmakers and even took it to Cambodia.     Now, I've remixed to give it some Hawaiian Aloha spirit. 

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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. She is the third person to mention a remix. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked! . In fact, just last month, I took.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

  As I mentioned to the group,  it is always a work in progress and this Aloha Remix included some new ideas - the point system, the situation cards, and scenarios that were not all non-profit. s time to rethink and remix everything you knew about marketing.   It made the game incredibly rich - and a key learning. 

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Put ‘em all together and you get the key to viral victory: Contagious: The holy grail of social media marketing is attained when your engaging, short, and believable message takes fire and people start spreading it on your behalf; hopefully even remixing your message and broadening your appeal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. It was a little challenging to remix a workshop that would be relevant to these different perspectives and age groups and have people leave the room having learned something. It was eye opening.

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The agenda of the Leading Change Summit is different than anything I’ve seen in the nonprofit space, an interesting reboot and remix of the traditional conference. The Conference Tracks: Impact Leadership . Digital Strategy. The Future of Technology. You can find a complete overview of the LCS experience is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

The online facilitation list recently had a thread about choosing wikis. I found the above image in Flickr under a license that allows me to remix it -- so I changed the title. I'm also reminded of Andy Robert's wiki on wiki facilitation. Origina l photo CC by license in Flickr User Start Cooking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

The students had to create an image that was representative of the organization's core values and then create another image that another student could remix. We had some discussion about how the photos were licensed in creative commons to facilitate this remixing. Anyway, here's the flickr set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. I had noticed that there were over 300 groups in Facebook for SurfRider, many remixing the official logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." Facilitate the content creation, you can't control it, but make sure you have a solid overarching strategy. This a terrific example of in working in networked way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). 6: Leverage the power of social proofing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. The method is simple - they test their ideas, if it works they build on it and if it doesn't they remix. Witzel notes, we don't have the barrier of "paralysis by analysis.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. It facilitates free agent fundraising. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

And, if you search through delicious, a social bookmarking service, you will turn up some interesting bookmarks that give you some dental tips, background , an online service that facilitates communication between your child and the tooth fairy, and a critical thinking exercise that debunks this popular childhood myth.

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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. Here's the description. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way? There are different ways that people are organizing to work together - facilitated and spontaneous. Facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant. We created a network of fans who are remixing our context and spreading our message, how do we guide them effectively without controlling them? How can we activate the activsts in the real world? (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning. 1) Social Media Game : I have used the the social media game at over 50 trainings during the past four years and many others have re-purposed and remixed it too.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. But not many people to share with or remix. I tried to apply all that I learned about facilitating online conversations, connecting, and networking to blogging. A totally manual blog! The Typo Police Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. So, why not consider a micro loan to lend4health that facilitates loans to individuals with autism spectrum disorders so they seek treatment. And, yes they did ! Organizations like Kaboom help build them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution! You can find the columns here : The summaries are released on cc 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Many people have also remixed it. When I use it with a large group, I do a fair amount of social engineering to ensure there is the right mix of technical experience, communications experience, and meeting facilitators. Mostly that is done in the room. I think this is still important for even a smaller group. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! The questions that emerged from this group were not different from those that are asked when we talk about online facilitation and online communities. These folks would be perfect participants for Nancy White's Online Facilitation Workhop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Her additional points about the use of Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation spurred some additional reflections (boy I feel a writely document coming on.) Another way to involve remote participate is to set up a remote tracks using speakers and facilitators who are the live event. It is a privilege.

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