Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic.

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Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2024

Draft a plan that articulates your mission and vision for your legacy giving program and set attainable goals for the program. It should also include different types of experiences you can provide your potential legacy donors, such as one-on-one conversations to seminars and workshops that help explain the effect of legacy giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I look for patterns.

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

VQ Strategies

MARCH 2, 2023

I immediately thought about the trend we’ve have been watching and supporting in recent years to shift from lengthy volunteer engagement workshops for staff partners to instead what we call, “mini-trainings.” Is it impactful and can you (and the volunteers) articulate the difference they will make by engaging in this way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. This was the first 90 minutes of the workshop, and while content and interaction kept in active learning mode — the next step was a synthesis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

First things first, you should be able to articulate to your board what role you’d like to see them have in your development plan. This is a great opportunity to teach your board about fundraising and workshop their skills. Prepare a statement of clear goals to present and discuss at the next board meeting. Build on Your Momentum.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

The following tips come from an email communications workshop I presented with peer-to-peer fundraising experts from Susan G. Articulate your goals. . Start by articulating your virtual campaign, in-person and/or hybrid event goals so you can then create your email communications plan to support those goals. Email content .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

To check if your organization is grants-ready, you should first ask yourself these questions: Can you clearly articulate your mission, vision, and your impact on the population you serve? Do you have a project or program for which you can clearly and convincingly articulate your need for funds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

On the later, the question of audience and objective and whether social media is the right channel needs to be clearly articulated. This a tricky tightrope for social social agencies that provide programs in domestic violence or work with youth. Board source. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Social Media Government Reflection Media 95

Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Pay close attention to who is present when you’re in spaces where diverse nonprofits and consultants gather and engage, such as online platforms and forums, grant application meetings, nonprofit trainings, workshops, and conferences. Evaluate each applicant’s ability to articulate and demonstrate shared core values. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I was able to develop dynamic, innovative, and knowledgeable courses using e-learning tools such as Articulate, Camtasia, Microsoft Office, and worked with graphic artist to develop custom interactive multimedia instruction (IMI).

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Professional Develop Instructional Design Phoenix 77

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Writing them down has been powerful for us: these truths articulate who we are and how we do things at Benetech. These include formal and informal activities such as individual training by other staff members, workshops, staff brown bags and visiting speakers. We're striving now to fully live up to them! 2 We get stuff done.

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Literacy Articulate Open Source International 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. A consistent trait I see among those I consider wildly successful nonprofit leaders is their ability to share their vision with others, either one-on-one or in a group.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ensure that your membership drive materials clearly articulate all that’s included in each membership tier. Multiple membership options accommodate various budgets and commitment levels in a way that one membership tier cannot. This should include the cost of membership and all the different benefits members enjoy at every level.

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Benefit Track Associations Marketing 52

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2019

These days, since my passion is to help social good organizations optimize all aspects of their day-to-day operations by creating workshops about nonprofit best practices , I wanted to share some information about grants and how they can help your organization succeed. Are you ready to be the king or queen of grants at your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks. Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

I've learned a lot from attending and teaching workshops this year. Come to this two-day bootcamp to: Articulate your goals for community participation at your organization. I'm excited to share the MAH's community-first model and to invite you to this in-depth, immersive learning experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

At SXSW, I did a workshop with Carie Lewis and David Neff who assessed their organization’s measurement practices along the Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly continuum. It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This week I attended a session with David La Piana , author and long-time nonprofit consultant, hosted by the Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan , and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a funder’s point of view.

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Helping staff articulate their stories and developing them might require storytelling training. Blumenfeld organized workshops for staff that taught them about the important aspects of stories, incorporating calls-to-action in their stories, and more.

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Storytelling Culture Create Library 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I presented a workshop at the Bay Area Video Coalition Nonprofit Institution. The nonprofits in this workshop, for the most part, deliver programs and services that address sensitive topics. I am no stranger to family diversity having adopted two children and being of different cultures and races.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The workshop lasted four days, with each day devoted to a specific theme: 1) Networked NGOs, Networks, and Change from the Inside Out 2) Integrated Social Media Strategy 3) Effective Practice and Techniques 4) Action Learning Pilots, Measurement, and Remote Support. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

In January, as part of a series of place-making workshops facilitated by the Project for Public Spaces , we worked with a local dad to coordinate a workshop explicitly for kids (full writeup here ). I came out of the workshop with a mixture of joy and unease. The key here is symbolic versus actual engagement and involvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Over the past five years, we’ve stumbled our way into social media.

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Ning Community Social Media Culture 92

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Articulating content priorities for your homepage and other key pages/sections of your web presence. In addition to the content audit, we may have a workshop with the website stakeholders to create a messaging hierarchy to document key messages for the web presence.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Today was the second session of my 2-part workshop for consultants and wanna-be consultants. Be able to articulate what you help orgs do and accomplish, not necessarily the technical products/skills? Jana Byington-Smith blogged it again, and here’s what she recorded. Presenters: Robert L. Michael Stein, Michael Stein, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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ROI Social Media Media Measure 74

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. In the debrief to the experience I asked people what they thought they might take back to their institutions from the workshop. The comment that brought me up short was “This was great. The leadership environment is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization.

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ROI Results Community Online 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

And many folks don't seem to understand, as the book Groundswell articulates so clearly, at the end of the day it's really all about relationships and NOT the technology tools.It It's time we bridged the relgion-technology divide, so I have put together some workshops to do just that.

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Technology Second Life Articulate Broadcast 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

We held 30 workshops and seminars, with a total of 3245 registrations." Outcomes are, "of the 3245 members who attended our workshops, 2800 said they felt better prepared to deal with new regulations regarding blah blah blah. "Outputs are: members of our association sent an average of six staff people to association events this year.

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Management Module Articulate Associations 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept. While I'm not sure I'd recommend the workshop (it was quite expensive for what I received), I definitely benefited from the format.

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