The Next Web

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Branch offices can play a huge role in facilitating a startup’s expansion, not only by extending its reach in sales and marketing, but by tapping into a larger pool of talent, and playing to the unique strengths of a particular city or region. Remote communication apps like Skype, GoToMeeting, LivePerson, and Join.me

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

We won't be spending Thanksgiving with family this year, but I could still record a family member's story with the Skype recording program for Macs I use for podcasting, ecamm Call Recorder for Skype. What were your grandparents like? If you have a PC, I've heard great things about Pamela. Whose story would you like to capture?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. Colleague, June Holley , was not able to participate in person, but was able to participate via skype. The questions: What do you hope to learn today? What’s the biggest challenge related to networks and leadership?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

A few days ago, I got an email from Seth Mazow with a question about how to record a SKYPE call. I thought Marshall Kirkpatrick has recorded our interview via SKYPE, but just remembered that it was Corey from the 501C3Cast. I know that Nick Noakes records via SKYPE, but don't know what tools he uses.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2011

Chief among them: what tools would facilitate such an arrangement and how to cultivate a collaborative spirit among team members? Tools such as Basecamp or Cohuman can facilitate task assignment and management. Online tools now exist that make it possible for work teams to contribute from outside a traditional office setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

Two years ago when this group was meeting in California, Nancy White saw me online and skyped me. As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time! Much of my connection has been facilitated by online technology so it was great to participate - finally - face-to-face. tools that facilitate this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The implementation team was in the conference room in San Francisco for the first time, plus we had in-country leaders on Skype and phone. Our first day of meetings devoted most of the morning for team building and orientation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I speak to college students regularly, many times through skype like this group of students in Indiana this past month who shared stories about their internships which often included measurement and spreadsheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

We had some discussion about how the photos were licensed in creative commons to facilitate this remixing. Last night, I had a skype call with Mike Seyfang from Aussie land, who is trying to help educate us all about the subtleties of choosing a cc license and the tradeoffs/barriers of remix culture vs non-commercial use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process. The official title of the session was “Donor Engagement in An Age of Complexity.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. I speak to college students regularly, many times through skype like this group of students in Indiana this past month who shared stories about their internships which often included measurement and spreadsheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

The built-in webcam for most models also facilitate conferencing via Skype, a component that often is a $50 add-on for full sized laptops. In addition, as organizations adopt more Web-deployed technologies like CRM or document sharing, this may seem like a viable option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The last drawing/map is from a peer learning group of Packard Grantees that I am facilitating based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” from Radio Bilingue. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Radio Bilingue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

I was delighted last week to see this skype message pop up from Dave Cormier. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? " Dave has posted his first observation here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. And even when you are meeting on Skype or a conference call, the basics of good meetings apply. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. They’re planned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

and Skype and everyone was impressed to see the possibilities of connecting with someone they knew from Cambodia who was in the US. She was the facilitator for the event and did an excellent job keeping everyone on track and picking up key themes. She facilitated the session on "Gender Blogging" on Friday afternoon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

David and I had our first skype call to begin to design the session. We are also interested in a lot of the same content areas -- nonprofits, collaboration, online communication, facilitation, social media, social networking, web2.0, We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Feel free to email or skype me if you need help getting started - it's a wee bit of a learning curve, but fun. After the panelist intros, it was opened up for audience discussions facilitated by Anslee Berkman (who is a she). If you're interested in attending or getting more involved, there are some ways to do so.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com). For example, if you have determined that you need a CRM solution, you need to understand how you are going to facilitate your business processes through the system. Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g.,

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. Some of these recommended solutions include QuickBooks online (accounting), Salesforce.com/Common Ground (database/CMS), Google Apps (email), Dreamhost (website server), Ring Central/Skype (Telephony).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. Some of these recommended solutions include QuickBooks online (accounting), Salesforce.com/Common Ground (database/CMS), Google Apps (email), Dreamhost (website server), Ring Central/Skype (Telephony).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. Take your onboarding online. Keep your volunteers engaged.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

and Skype/Facebook integration now include group chat functions and. cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. Adobe Connect - integrates many types of media into a shared workspace with robust tools. Stroome - provides video editing in collaboration and ad hoc project collaboration. early beta).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Jenny is about to pilot a 12 Week Training Program.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

The site has social media integration to better facilitate sharing and collaboration. Working with his distributed production team required Skype, cloud storage, and email. The site allows users to upload content — video, audio, and images — and invite others to put the pieces together.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 5, 2016

They are not, as might be feared, wedded to using the more esoteric forms of electronic communication (Skype, texting, etc.). They have developed the skills to accomplish complex tasks with virtual work and to utilize web tools that facilitate collective and simultaneous input without the time consuming process of sequential revisions.

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