Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. . All event staff and presenters should be sensitive to the online audience and ensure that the event pacing accommodates their needs. . Put a team together.

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A virtual event venue is a production or broadcast studio designed to facilitate virtual events and webcasting. These studios are fully equipped with all the video, audio, and tools needed to create a virtual presentation with extremely high production values. What is a Virtual Event Venue? Benefits of Virtual Event Venues.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2022

Through the platform, virtual attendees can also access live chats, view trade show booths, and engage with presenters, allowing online attendees to feel a part of the experience. Bonus: Accelevents facilitates participation and networking across both physical and virtual sessions. Which sessions did they attend? The best kind of ROI?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2010

Beth facilitated a conversation, among the panelists as well as the standing-room-only room of participants, that focused on the power of crowdsourcing and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. Tags: presentation crowdx netsquared nten sxsw video.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. As one might guess, Clubhouse was one that floated to the top.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

A hybrid event is generally hosted by a company, event management team, and supporting staff, like videographer, event organizer, emcee, audio team, and IT support team. . Hybrid events typically have presenters. With an in-person audience watching the presentation, the entire thing is broadcast online to a global audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Last year, I did a workshop at a conference for professionals who do audio description, a service that makes visual images of theatre, television, movies, and other art forms accessible to people are who blind or have low vision.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Virtual trade shows can present new and exciting opportunities, especially if you are trying to promote your brand or host an event during a time when physical events aren’t possible. Streaming video for presentations, webinars, and branded virtual booth experiences. Scheduled video, audio, or VR sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. Appoint a facilitator to function as traffic cop, spelling out the rules of engagement and calling on people when it’s their turn.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Videos, interviews, client stories, audio, emails, podcasts, social media posts—there are so many types of storytelling opportunities available to nonprofits of all missions and sizes. But 63% of people could remember a story the presenter told. Use your nonprofit’s stories to show donors the change they can help create.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Optimizing your donation form to present the easiest and best user experience when someone lands on your site – from an ad, email, or search engine – is a massive win for acquiring new donors and getting more repeat gifts from existing donors. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

You can always provide post-presentation handouts with links for your audience if they want to dive further into the weeds on a particular topic. Also, we’ve found that in a virtual setting, presentations that are short, dynamic, and include more visuals than text perform best in keeping the audience present and engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

Communication features include: Live chat, messaging, group chat for communication between attendees, vendors, presenters, and event hosts. Q&A feature for after a presentation. While your virtual event platform should facilitate your event hosting, visitors do not need to see the branding of the virtual platform.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary. Prioritize accessibility.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Virtual trade shows can present new and exciting opportunities, especially if you are trying to promote your brand or host an event during a time when physical events aren’t possible. Streaming video for presentations, webinars, and branded virtual booth experiences. Scheduled video, audio, or VR sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The debriefing prompted a wide range of insights, particularly how to facilitate a training when you have individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator. Develop Backup Resources to Monitor.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

Communication features include: Live chat, messaging, group chat for communication between attendees, vendors, presenters, and event hosts. Q&A feature for after a presentation. While your virtual event platform should facilitate your event hosting, visitors do not need to see the branding of the virtual platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Last week, I co-presented a Guidestar webinar with Andrea Kihlstedt on the topic of healthy and productive meetings who talked about the basics for making meetings highly effective. I spoke about standing and walking meetings. This post shares some reflections and additional resources about both topics. Productive Meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. There was also a dream team of audio visual techs. I was worried about this and would have liked to had a pre-session chat with this participant: mrbenjohnson : Too many US charities represented for @kanter ’s presentation? View more presentations from Darren Barefoot.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2010

Kami Griffiths, my co-worker and training facilitator par excellence organized a Meetup last Friday at the San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind , which I was fortunate enough to attend. The presenters, Patty Quinonez and Shen Kuan were both power users of assistive technology themselves and experts at training others. read more.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

We observed and audio recorded the groups, and conducted in-depth interviews in Spanish after they went through the exhibit, with a focus on what the bilingual experience was like for the group. Adults who were previously dependent on their children could now take the lead as confident facilitators.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2009

On Monday night I went to a great event, Money, Mobs, and Media: Mobilizing Action for Change , presented by The Hub Bay Area. Facilitate peer-to-peer referrals. Note: the audio in the beginning is scratchy, but it gets better). Regina Connell of SaltCellar moderated. I highly recommend you watch the video on BusinessBoomer.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

My presentation in particular addressed the challenge of incorporating story telling into an organization's everyday behavior and addressed the fact that the act of collecting and sharing success stories does not happen in a vacuum. Overall, our presentation was very well received. My presentation slides are below.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. The ebook has overcome these barriers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

From one of my favorite edtech blogger, Alan Levine (fellow lab lover) comes this Flickrtation - using flickr for a presentation. Here's what they say about the this new genre This presention is being completely delivered as a flickr photoset. I really like the use of flickr for presentations instead of powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Here’s the overview: EDF Staff Retreat - Intro to Social Media View more presentations from Eric Schwartzman. And that made the presentations really good.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Users can add text, videos, images, audio files, Twitter feeds, PDFs, and more. Those can spark your audience's imagination to encourage examining relationships among and facilitate interacting with the data. The extensive text accompanying the visualizations allows the audience to gain insight from the data presented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

He describes what hopes to do: I intend to examine the methodology of various politically and socially energized young people, contacted through various activist networks, and to listen to, record, and share their stories with present and future doers. I will use a blog rich in video and audio to share my discoveries and analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. How do you incorporate the backchannel in your conference or panel presentations?

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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. In the presentation, I showed folks how to easily survey the audience using google forms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Interviews (written, audio, video). Notes, photos and presentations from events. Ask readers to share opinions, resources, and content (blog posts, photos, audio, video). Post weekly roundups of blog posts about your issue. Post about a range topics (i.e. Press mentions.

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