Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. What to do? You can build your resilience by listening to a lecture!

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Maybe you've been feeling this way about coming to an event related to The Art of Relevance. You'd like to participate, but it would have taken too much effort to attend the summer book launch events in Edinburgh and Santa Cruz. All the 2016 book events are here (and frequently updated). I'd love to meet you there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. One of our hopes for the book was that it would spark conversation about the need for self-care as part of doing the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. A Zentangle is a miniature abstract work of art created with a collection of patterns. There are no mistakes. It is unplanned. Zentangle Pens and Pencils. Artist Tiles.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Maggie Oman Shannon As some of you know, I produce the Arts and Healing Network''s Arts and Healing Podcast where I get to talk with all kinds of people about the healing power of art. Maggie Oman Shannon about her wonderful book, Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Create an online exhibition to showcase impressive art pieces your burgeoning young artists have created. Virtual college + career prep workshop. Online discount book sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. I’d like to use this post to share some of the responses to the Networked Nonprofit at different book events and online during the past month and let you know about upcoming events in November. Steve Heye is blogging the book.

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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. I also facilitated several design labs with nonprofits as part of the research for the Happy Healthy Nonprofit at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the National Arts Marketing Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Here's the description: Join Beth Kanter who has been teaching nonprofit technology workshops for over 15 years, both offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The timely theme honors women in every community who have devoted their lives and talents to producing art, pursuing truth, and reflecting the human condition decade after decade.” Support women-owned businesses Women-owned businesses are a vital part of the economy , employing 10.1 million workers and generating $1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

During the summer, I’ve been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. The Big Book of Icebreakers. Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax. help people to relax.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

It feels like that's a way in which the arts can be visionary, be change agents, and also be really fun and playful, which is primary to living." - Gabriela Masala This month's Big Vision Podcast guest is Gabriela Masala talking about how to organize have fun do good flash mobs. Show Notes I've got two blogging workshops coming up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post. Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively? Three Models. Who in our organization is going to do the work? How are ever going to find the time to do social media? Social media does take time even if you are efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I did a pre-session blog post with all the annotated sources and some book recommendations. It is the trade off between doing a conference panel VS a workshop, perhaps this topic would have much more effective a pre-conference workshop. The Art of Good Openings and Closings. You can find all resources materials here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lisa is the author of The Creative Entrepreneur , an award-winning book on creativity and business for creatives who want to do what they love, and make a difference. Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. We eat, sleep and make art 24/7. They need a passport!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Arts Council of Silicon Valley Staff. Someone said to me during a workshop a few weeks back – it really sucks to log into Facebook and see a two-star post quality ranking. This prompted me to post a question on my wall: How many of you Facebook Page admins notice your post quality ranking every time you visit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. One of the points we emphasized was that the art and craft of content curation was not mindless, click sharing of content.

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JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. These young students submitted illustrated storybooks to a student art exhibit at the SLHC last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. The Art of Good Closers. 8 Must-Read Books on Training Design. Over the last few years, I’ve used my blog as a transparent reflection tool. I thought I’d take this opportunity to organize some of those posts into a resource list. Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. Her mission in her blog has been to rebrand the experience of going to a museum, chasing away the old ideas of a quiet temple of tweedy art appreciation by generating new ideas of what a museum could be.

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MAY 13, 2012

I wanted to let you know about 4 blogging workshops coming up, in case you're interested. If you make a purchase after clicking on the link, I get a small percentage of the sale, which I will most likely use to buy more books! Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders! Share your blogging goals for the week.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Women Center Stage has launched women artists' work like Iris Bahr, who wrote and performed " Dai " at the festival, and is now performing her piece on Culture Project's main stage, and Staceyann Chin , who did a workshop of, "Border/Clash" as part of the Women Center Stage festival, and went on to produce fuller productions of the piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Your generous contribution will bring the magic of art to. … . Don’t say: Your gift will help us continue our contribution of great art to this community. Your gift will help bring great art to our very own community. Show your donor directly how and why their gift will make a difference. Remove the “us:”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My colleague, Steve Heye ,and fellow chapter author for the NTEN book, Managing Your Mission To Meet Technology , created the above slidedeck for a career training workshop at the YMCA. It's about using social networking tools to support your career. Lots of great stuff here! Steve has some good tips on how to use LinkedIn. .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. They don''t just invite participation by opening the doors. It''s like a swap.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Arts and crafts. If your organization has access to providing unique, customized experiences yourself, such as environmental conservation causes hosting walk-and-learns and/or native gardening workshops, even better! Kitchen goods. Electronics. Musical instruments. Hobby supplies. Furniture(space permitting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2015

Over the years, I’ve been writing and teaching workshops on these topics – how to manage your attention online , how to avoid being content fried , and balancing connectivity with solitude. I believe these are important and practical “networked leadership skills.”

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JUNE 17, 2015

Last week, I sat on the jury for the first Cultural Innovation International Prize given by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona , and this week, I'm offering a workshop for museum professionals across Poland participating together in a "Museum Lab" in Warsaw. And hopefully, they don't just do it once; they do it again and again.

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