Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). This training will be the kick off for a peer learning group that Stephen will facilitate over the next few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference takes place in Minneapolis next week. I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. April 13, 2013 10:30-Noon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. I foresee that 2013 will be the year that this strategy really takes off. Flickr Photo by Toddy. I’m so glad you asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013. kanter we have wifi connection interuption here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. Paul Rees (@paul3141) May 15, 2013. Walking Debrief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Harvard Business Review, March 2013. SSIR Blog, January 2013. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013. Jacob Harold, Guidestar , shared some thoughts to this question, “What are the basic building blocks to facilitate better access to data?” gpf13 Technical part about data easy – hard part is getting humans to collaborate @ jacobharold — Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 15, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Jim Canales (@jcanales) April 5, 2013. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. ” All good nonprofit strategists know that you have to begin with setting measurable goals. Click to Download. While it may be the dog days of August, GivingTuesday 2014 kicks off on December 4th. Number of donors. Number of new donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It is helpful to utilize a process that will help facilitate a deep and meaningful dialogue. Imagine the possibilities of bringing together your organization’s stakeholders to develop and agree on the measures of impact for your organization as a whole. Contact one of our nonprofit specialists today!

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We took a year off of C3 in 2013 and reconsidered our goals for the group. We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks. Our measures of success for C3 are: C3 members find it useful and valuable (measured via self-report and attendance over time).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

TechSoup involves online volunteers as subject matter experts, moderators, and facilitators for our community forum. Virtual Volunteering Wiki : in conjunction with the 2013 release of the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook later this year. Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Stephen Blyth of Common Knowledge invited Beth Kanter to visit New Zealand to facilitate some workshops for NGOs interested in networked capacity building. Portland, OR: Mini Sessions from Locals Who Presented at 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Toronto, Canada: Measuring & Engaging your Email List. Wednesday, May 1.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2017

The post-march narrative is all about organized action, with dozens of new initiatives emerging to help facilitate sustained political engagement. The study also pointed to a greater emphasis on measuring social outcomes of philanthropic investments. Employees as philanthropists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

What are you focusing on for 2013? So, I’m going to make that my theme, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Wendy Hanamura (@WHanamura) January 25, 2013. I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. .”Led by @ kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. ” — Beth Kanter (@kanter) May 1, 2013. (4)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The guide identifies on the key benefits of transparency as reported by the funders interviewed for the guide: Foundations profiled in this guide and those who responded to a 2013 GrantCraft survey listed the following benefits of transparency: Less time spent explaining goals and strategies to potential grantees. What are the benefits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

Some key themes: the need to focus on measurement for impact. I’ll be talking about the role of hyper-connected donors based on my experience and some recent research that shows how valuable these champions are for crowdfunding and social fundraising. I love serendipity! share information and tools, earlier and more easily.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

2013 work by Brent Simpson and Rob Willer : Beyond altruism or reciprocity, many other social norms around giving can come into play. I talk a lot about the fundraiser’s role in facilitating the powerful pathway to passionate philanthropy. You can even suggest to people “your giving is a blessing.”. It’s now up to you to choose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2016

They facilitated our entire staff through the exercise.” Rinderknect described their crisis scenario planning in detail here. GiveMN learned the importance of having a crisis plan during a catastrophic technical glitch in 2013. “We Click to Download Report. Our corporate partner, First Bank, does this sort of planning all the time.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. Stocksy United: Platform Co-op for Freelance ”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 20, 2017

That’s the measure of success, it’s a very high bar and philanthropy can’t do it all but philanthropy does have an important role to play in advancing [racial justice] conversations” (Costello & Dorfman, 2016). Foundations facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion: Partnering with community and nonprofits. D5 Coalition.

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