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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

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Over the past couple of years, they have been dabbling, and then wading, in data visualization techniques. And for more fun nonprofit tech talk, check out our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. The case goes like this: We want to provide knowledge and expertise.

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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.”

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first.

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Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

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Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? Personal Fundraising – In order to extend our reach and to leverage personal networks, we encouraged people to create fundraising pages.

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Three Upcoming Nonprofit Events and Conferences to Check Out

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Whether your organization is local or national, with the right tools and techniques, you can tap into the rising tide of advocacy and make your voice heard. Session ideas that attendees have already posted range from “New Media Techniques in 2012” and a public narrative training around storytelling to build movements.