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Guided Visualizations at a Social Media Strategy Workshop
Note from Beth: As a trainer, I'm constantly on the prowl for new ideas for activities and exercises that get beyond death by PowerPoint. After spending a lot of time developing trainer of trainers curriculum, it is also fun to incorporate new ideas. I've looked to meditation and reflection practices before - in fact - last year during a guest instructor appearance in Jennifer Aaker's "Power of Social Technology" class at Stanford, I had the class do a reflection activity that involved … [Read more...]
Practical and Tactical Social Media for Nonprofits
If you are wondering about the chart, it came a cool free tool called "Export.ly" It will analyze your Twitter audience, Facebook page, and even your email box by grabbing the data and dumping it into a spreadsheet. You pay per export and right now you can pay with a Tweet. I used it analyze the Facebook page. It compliments the data that you get from Insights - it lets you aggregate and analyze the comments and posts from your page. It is particularly useful if you want to easily get a … [Read more...]
Pause: The Discipline of Noticing
Last month, I had the opportunity to participate in a "Share Your Practice" with colleagues at CPSquared (a community of practice of people who are interested in communities of practice). These sessions are a social reflection process - you intentionally reflect together with professional colleagues on the trade craft of your work. How many of us have the discipline to notice what we're doing with our professional work? Our natural tendency is to keeping moving forward on the to do list, to … [Read more...]
Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy
I've been closely following the use of social media for activism the Arab world given the project I'm about to begin work on at the end of the February. Jillian York, a US-based blogger who free expression, politics, and the Internet, with particular focus on the Arab world and also write for Global Voices (see their special coverage of the Egyptian protests here. ) Jillian has been asked this question a lot in the last few days by journalists, "How are protesters in Egypt Using Social … [Read more...]
Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Integrated Mobile Strategy
Note from Beth: I've been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. I had to look no further than the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program. With 75% of the world's fisheries are fished to capacity, or overfished, the fish we order in restaurants or pick up at the grocery store for dinner, has the power to make this situation worse, or improve it. But, as consumers, we don't have that information handy, unless the the restaurant specifically lets us know and, … [Read more...]
How Networked Nonprofits Visualize Their Networks
Two weeks ago, the social media maven from the National Wildlife Federation, Danielle Brigida, tweeted the above photo showing how they were mapping one of their networks with one of my favorite low tech tools: sticky notes. This got my attention because I was designing a Networked Nonprofit workshop for E-Mediat and will incorporate a network mapping exercise. Danielle connected me to Daniel Chu, Vice President, Affiliate and Regional Strategies and resident network weaving … [Read more...]
A Free Agent at Davos!
Shawn Ahmed, Free Agent and founder of the Uncultured Project, has been invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will meet with business leaders and heads of state. This year, Shawn's video was selected from over 100 covering a wide range of topics and debates, to participate in the meetings. A big congrats to Shawn! He will talk about his work -- and the whole notion of free agents working with NGOs as highlighted in our book, The Networked Nonprofit. Shawn has … [Read more...]
E-Mediat: Social Media and Digital Activism in the Arab World
This third and final post shares some insights from the planning sessions for E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building for NGOs in Social Media in the Middle East. (For context, read my first post about this project.) The highlight of third day was a VIP Lunch with project sponsors, implementation team, and remote participation via skype from members of the In-Country teams in Jordan and Morocco. Trish Tierney, Executive Director of IIE from the West Coast Center welcomed … [Read more...]
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