Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

I traveled with a team of Advisers to conduct an interactive “Tech2Empower” workshop for leaders of anti-trafficking and women’s rights NGOs. For many years, I served as a board member for an NGO, The Sharing Foundation , that manages an orphanage and many other programs in Roteang Village, including an education program.

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AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab. 125 if received after October 9th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This blog seeks to capture the information gathered at the workshop, keep the discussion alive and build momentum." " The Web Is Dead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

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. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

” I had the honor of doing a Care2 webinar in December which was one of over 40 book talks, presentations, webinars, and workshops to launch the book. I decided to go offline and take a break from blogging, pinning, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'll not only be speaking at the conference and CSR Track, but will be leading two workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners. I hope to bring you live blog and tweet reports as I can - depending wifi and jet lag - during the conference's first day. You can follow along on the official conference blog or twitter account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. Group Photo with Certificates. Advanced preparation is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

If you work for an NGO in another region of the world or have experience delivering capacity building program, I encourage you to join the discussion here. Packard Grantees from Pakistan, with In-Country Team. I’m very grateful that the OE Team at Packard has shared this guest post about this important topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” The program accomplished the following: 220 organizations participated. Organizations raised almost $125,000 through integrated social media campaigns from donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media. My cards all have US data. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

The workshop started with a welcoming ceremony. We sat in the hall – two rows – the guests and the Maori. I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

” I attended a fantastic workshop facilitated by Michelle Gislason , Senior Project Director, CompassPoint, called “ How to Fail Spectacularly (and What You Can Learn from It) ” Here’s a few key takeaways and resources. On Monday, I attended Compasspoint’s Nonprofit Day 2011. What were you trying to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

There were a total of 12 NGOs present at the event, including the Maharashtra Dyslexia Association and the Sujaya Foundation , which provides educational services to underprivileged youth. A representative from each NGO presented his or her project. BiGTech will be tracking the projects' progress and reporting back on its blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I’m excited because that means friends and NGO colleagues in other parts of the world can get the book! October 16 from 10-12 noon, SF Foundation Center – Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Workshop. Want to share freight costs to NZ of “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit”? New book by @ kanter @ kdpaine amz.to/measure-networ…

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JULY 3, 2006

During my conversation with Rose, she told me about a panel she was on, that had a mainly women audience, and how surprised she was by how many women had questions about blogging basics. I started thinking, sounds like there are a lot of women out there who would like to start a blog, but don't know how. www.brittbravo.com blog women

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. We need to make the time to blog after hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

(Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. David Saski from Global Voices summarized her presentation: Dee Dee's 10 minute introduction to why she blogs and what she got out of it put a big smile on my face.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You're reading the TechSoup blog, so you're probably already comfortable with using technology in your work. You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. . ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Add : Community management, big data, mobile apps or social media… Mix in : hackathons, social media surgeries, workshops, panel discussions or social minglers… Our amazing volunteers have put together a delicious menu of events for you this month. Check out the blog to keep on top of the gossip from our community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Today in Beirut there were peaceful protests , but in another part of the city the E-Mediat project participants gathered for the first day of the Train the Trainers eight-day workshop. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. In 2009, I was lucky enough to take a social network analysis workshop using a SNA free plugin for excel called NodeXL with Marc Smith , a sociologist specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. Radio Bilingue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. Now, I want to refine those in more workshops and peer group learning opportunities. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” When I ask an NGO “who are you trying to engage with?”, What websites and blogs do they read? Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. How old are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Personal Information Technology Workshop ??? A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques. Blog about this campaign and repost the fundraising badge on your blog. Keynote welcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

We "met" when we both took the incredible Nancy White 's Online Facilitation Workshop. In addition to the workshop curriculum, we were encouraged to explore our own inquiry questions. Mine included: How can blogs play a role in online community building? We've never met face-to-face, but we have many similar interests.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

Check out the blog to get a taste of our grassroots community. Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data. Taipei, Taiwan: 民眾、社群與 NGO 的協作：飲水地. See if there's a group close to you by searching our map. Don't have a NetSquared group near you? Event Reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . A big question in this workshop is how can these program incorporate social media effectively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

workshop, I spoke about tagging. After the workshop, John Weeks created a Khmer image for tagging using Angkun. Activity geared to just becoming familiar with the tools and concepts. Perhaps have them flip through the cards and come up with a list of questions. Used fewer cards and focused on the content of the half-hour web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. Annette is involved with a ngo called Half the Sky Foundation that supports orphans in china with educational and development programs.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Naples, Florida: Boost Your Nonprofit's Blogging Strategy. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Vancouver, British Columbia: Better Data Visualization Using Excel: Hands-on Workshop. Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Paul, Minnesota: QuickBooks Made Easy. Friday, December 2, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list. We now have four broadcast lists, with almost a thousand NGOs. These NGOs are connected with other non-profit leaders and volunteers through groups.

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