Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? At the beginning of the summer, I taught a master class and workshops with colleague Tharum Bunn from Cambodia at the IFC/Asia. Social Media (Facilitator: Beth Kanter). Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? The topics. Share in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. Nonprofits using social media… it all started on MySpace. Recent reports have alluded to class and race divisions between MySpace and Facebook users. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1. Nonprofit movements have been born on MySpace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. Debian or Ubuntu are just as “Enterprise-class&# as RHEL without Red Hat behind it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Author Jeanne Bell states, “while the nonprofit sector regularly discusses and addresses programmatically issues of race and class, recent studies reveal a sharp disconnect between our values and our leadership’s demographics” (Ostrower, 2007). Capstone CEO Interview [In-person interview]. Public Administration Review , 64(5), 529-538.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listen Learn Adapt: The Secret To Nonprofit Social Media Success View more presentations from kanter. These is a rough cut where I've riffed on some of the ideas in David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " and extended them to nonprofits and social media. tags: blogs facebook ). More on that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

Clearly, not all writers are cut out to do the kind of work Power does, but if you want your writing to have a larger purpose, here are a few resources for you: August 23-25th is the Writing for Change 2007 conference in San Francisco. HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs) in Minnesota has a Writing for Social Change Program.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. blog has been going for almost five years now, and I''ve seen people''s concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago, I gathered a group of creative folks in San Francisco and asked them, "what makes a social venue feel welcoming and friendly to you?" I had specifically asked about places that feel welcoming, and the responses were about exclusive experiences. Secrecy introduces novelty to the visit experience.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. blog has been going for almost five years now, and I've seen people's concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I was a sociology major, but wasn't attracted to social work. You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn. Sign up for it. Find support.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Who cares if children's museums don't change as long as the content and the experience is good? New questions are raised as classes can rapidly access information relevant to lessons, and students no longer look to the teacher to have every answer. The wired classroom is not a free-for-all nor an entirely screen-based experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It felt to me like coming out of the closet when I began talking about spiritual practice with my activist friends"--Marisa Handler The more I write about organizations and individuals who are creating social change, the more I realize that to create true change, we need to change our inner world and our outer world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Also, you remember how much work you got done when a substitute teacher came to class?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. Twitter was the biggest social media activity, absolutely no surprise. Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

And Phil Zimbardo is going to speak about his book, The Lucifer Effect , which showed how he had an experiment where he put a few students of his from Stanford in prison and a few people, in the same class, in as prison guards, and then it showed how immediately they turned bad because of how power can corrupt people. Social change?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students. Our dream is to raise the floor for every person with a disability, to ensure access to the material needed for education, employment and social participation.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The conference title makes most people think it deals with technology, servers, and computers, but the real buzz of the conference is using new social media tools for fundraising and publicity, in short, how to communicate effectively. He also teaches classes on podcasting and social media.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 7, 2011

who come from different Latin American nationalities, although they have varying races, cultures, language proficiencies, and experiences in the U.S. While Latinos have a variety of differences, they are often united by the many struggles they experience. The term Latino refers to the nearly one in four youth residing in the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. It's the social component. It's social, and the fact that that's rewarding and fulfilling and empowering for them. The education is key. It was wonderful. I can't wait.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Younger adopterss, with little or no allegiance to the old pattens and tools of tv-media-based traditional planning, are out there running wild, trying anything they can get their hands on, and moving fast enough that failures disappear quickly into the past, overwhelmed by the successes of experiments that worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

From my son's kindergarten class. The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have used crowdsourcing and social media to encourage innovative social change ideas or to raise money for nonprofits or shine attention on their do good work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. Kennedy New Frontier Award in 2007.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. They are the majority of those who actually experience physical violence. We should call them social benefit organizations." I am very inspired by that.

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