Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Specifically, the workshop will be focused on: Introducing and applying network tools, frameworks, and case studies that can help network leaders assess their effectiveness and increase their impact. My personal blog was getting more hits than our organization's web site.". "We Facilitating peer-learning and exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. Ashely shared a mini case study about their Pacifier Campaign.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He provides you proven techniques, workshop processes, real-world case studies and examples and insightful observations from business leaders and his own career – which includes 20 years as an executive at IBM and CFO positions at Cisco and Red Hat. Finally, and most importantly, behaviors and decisions reflect character.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The chapter includes detailed checklists, case studies, and how-to steps for analyzing ROI for nonprofit technology projects. Paul has to use ROI techniques to help the organization make the best decision. I presented on ROI and Nonprofit Technology. My presentation is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Peer Case Studies. The main part of the call featured case studies by peer grantees who shared their strategies for social media integration, measurable objectives, measurement, and social media techniques, particularly use of Twitter. I always incorporate some sort of reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

One of the successes was how most participants are learning to balance the strategic with the spontaneous of social media as described in this blog post. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Increase reach on social media channels. Cultivate “super fans”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Including some posts that have appeared on this blog.) Photo by Beth Kanter. Networks'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Make Time for Reflection. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

. Screen capture here : I've been running small experiments on the art of retweeting for a couple of weeks and it's time for a reflection. . These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And I like to live tweet because it forces a discipline of listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. That's just about when I discovered Avinash Kaushik's blog, Occam's Razor and his first book on Web analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? The report out was amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. I'm going to bring over video blogging kits - inexpensive cameras, rechargeable batteries, SD cards, and Ryanne's book. I put out a call for a session "Mobile Blogging and Video Blogging: I know nothing, educate me."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings. There was a link from Day 2 about Networked NGOs which included a case study of how the project took a “networked approach&# to its campaign. The Yemen Team has some additional reflections on their workshop blog. The Jordan Team won!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. 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 ). Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Make Time for Reflection. Learn from nonprofits and other organizations that have shared their social media case studies.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Doing this work defensibly involves arcane techniques like applying probabilistic equivalence techniques to insure that groups being measured are equivalent. Only 45 percent of respondents said they knew how well their programs were working, and only about 42 percent felt that their evaluations accurately reflected their impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. Friending the Finish Line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. As part of my learning journey to put these ideas into practice, I’m integrating visual techniques into my facilitation repertoire. Two things I did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I started with a variation of of the human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Bryce Skofield presented a case study about how their agency was using social media. He shared some points about their internal use of social media - blogs - as a strategy to get people comfortable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. I view it as a focus group that offers content ideas for blog posts as well as to provide another conversation channel to share insights about social media. Promoting through other channels (blog post, Twitter, speaking engagement, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. There are people who just want an expert on the stage to share their wisdom.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

blog posts from the past. Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

In reflecting on this now, it is important to make sure that your supporters are doing the retweeting and that you're not overdoing it on your Twitter account or you risk annoying people. They used twitter to drive comments to the blog - each comment would generated 100 pound donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page. It delves deeper into the uses of salesforce.com campaigns tab, " Salesforce Campaigns for Nonprofits " There some kind words over at the NTEN Blog about my most recent screencast. Now comes the reflection on the process, the craft of screencasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

I wanted to get my schedule in one easy to reference place (for myself) and think about how to incorporate some new panel moderation/panel techniques into my practice. Bernard leaves hotel 12:30 Training Team works on site from 12-2 Jay Dedman Video Blogging Workshop -2-5. Social Media ROI Case Study Slam 1:30-3:00 Detailed Plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Some participants got frustrated along the way, but part of the learning was to make time and space for reflection to get to deeper insights and improve practice. Opera San Jose Case Study. So they used the technique of “OH&# or overheard. Posters: Wall of Reflection and Gratitude. View more presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Network maps are "talking documents" or prompts for reflection and strategizing. There is a tour on the site, free trial, and some case studies. .

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