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. Dave Witzel was a participant in the workshop and thought the game could be adapted as apart of training on social media at the staff retreat. People were extremely engaged. How did it go?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. . Tool mastery may belong to younger people, but.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room. Enter online fundraising contests. Contests have also helped inspire nonprofits—motivated by cash prizes —to dip their toes into the social fundraising waters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I've been designing and delivering technology trainings for nonprofit organizations for the past 15 years, I've tried to find fun ways for people to understand and feel comfortable with whatever technology. In workshops, I'd play the video and have folks jot down words or themes. Not so much how to use it, but how to use effectively.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

Here’s the first sessions: And the the report back: The game is a development of others Drew Mackie have created over the years - as you can see here - with the social media element added through work with Beth Kanter in 2007. After the problem and the people are addressed, then it’s time to consider the tech tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

My senior year of college I knew that I wanted to do work that made a difference, but I didn't know what kind of work that would be. Are there people whose work you envy? For example, at one point, I thought I wanted to be a massage therapist, but then I took a massage class, and realized I had to massage naked people I didn't know.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How to create harmony around different cultural approaches to work. Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations - Include More Voices, Make Better Choices , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bring people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling. Find Ken on Twitter at @kenhomer.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

I attended a workshop recently about "Fundraising using Social Media", and I was shocked when the conversation headed directly toward advertising. Consider this simple comparison of potential reach for campaigns run by two very different nonprofits: Large Nonprofit Using Direct Mail. 100,000 people. 100,000 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Keynote welcome.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] About the ASU Nonprofit Management Institute Founded in 1993, the ASU Nonprofit Management Institute offers 17 two-day, workshop-oriented courses for nonprofit professionals. We welcome your comments and feedback. Pollak, T.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? While celebrity endorsements have power in marketing, studies suggest that most people are more open to a transfer or exchange of knowledge with a respected peer. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. What's it like to work in a virtual exhibit workshop?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. with a few significant differences. Frankly, most people are just excited to imagine their vision coming to life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2007

Bill O'Hanlon is offering a few Have Fun * Do Good readers scholarship spaces in his upcoming How to Write a Book and Get Published seminar in Santa Fe, NM September 21-23, 2007. He will select up to three people to attend the workshop for free ($500 value for each registration). He has written over 50 articles or book chapters.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. I designed electricity workshops for families. Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2010

I’m in Atlanta on the eve of the 2010 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference and excited about the few people that I have already run into and looking forward to reuniting with more friends and NPTech peeps. You’ll find people at the conference using it in Twitter , Delicious , Facebook, Flickr , and more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

From the perspective of our work, it really means that the more we amplify different voices, the more we are doing our job. Greer recently returned from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi. Now she is the Producing Director of Women Center Stage. You can read some of her reflections on the Women at the World Social Forum blog. "I

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

About 5-8 years ago, I used to do a workshop called "Information Coping Skills" for people who felt overwhelmed by the information age. I used the " getting to zero " and "getting things done" frameworks to teach people methods for being efficient with email. The online resources are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. But now, the process of listening has changed concerns into strong interest about what people have to say." The first project was to listen to what was being said on blogs about the Red Cross.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. I''ve given talks and workshops about it all over the world. A black box with people crowded around, talking and sharing and making and doing. Now, I look back on the book and the biggest thing I see missing are the people inside that box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Will people be more or less likely to visit an online social network for domestic violence survivors, and who will find out if they do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. Told story about doing a workshop and someone said the product didn't work. All of us engage our supporters in different ways. Go to the places on the social web where you can find people who are passionate about your cause.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. So I asked people to make up scenarios. Most people enjoy building a fantasy world. This quickly proved unworkable, as the total workforce of Naturalis is more than 400 people. Buying a train. Forbidden for adults.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

What do we have to do differently?" In mid-July, the museum will host "Experience Clay," weekend workshops for those interested in clay sculpture. What motivates people to come to the museum is not the idea that there's something that's open for the next three months and they can come any time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Activist, journalist, and singer, Marisa Handler , chronicles her activist journey, and the role spirituality played in it, in her 2007 memoir, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. I think that there are as many different ways to be an activist as there are human beings on the planet right now. It wasn't bringing people toward us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

What we want is for all people to have some delicious, amazing, banging food!" His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. It has certain connotations that often push people away who don't embrace a plant-based diet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a corporate license, this means that it is for use by people within your organization. Others aren’t at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007. It is about sharing.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

Over 1,900 people from across the nonprofit sector will be on hand. It all begins with the first workshop in Blackbaud’s new Social Media Learning Series on Thursday, March 17, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. If you’re not here, then you can watch some of the sessions on NTC Online. It’s not even on YOUR website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm looking to blend different perspectives and have a workshop session that can speak to nonprofits and grassroots media makers. Different metrics matter for different social media makers for different reasons. To understand why social media metrics are different from traditional web metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. I knew many of the people in the room face-to-face, some for many years, or I knew them from online, having exchanged tweets or blog comments with them. That's rare in a conference setting. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Scott Henderson I was supposed to be leading a workshop at the Cause Marketing Forum on Social Media and Cause Marketing at the end of the month. It's an environment that attracts some of the most connected people in a wide variety of industries, creating a unique opportunity for ideas to take root in wider audiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. People write poems, and stand and recite them in public meetings. They have had arrested some very, very prominent people.

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