Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. In fact, such a bot exists, it is called Donut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2011

On June 29, I’ll be participating at conference in San Francisco called Social Media for Nonprofits that launches a seven-city conference event focusing on answering the question: “How can resource-strapped community-based organizations seize the opportunities presented by this new landscape?&#. San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Maggie Oman Shannon about her wonderful book, Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation. Shannon is an interfaith minister, spiritual director, workshop and retreat facilitator, and lifelong crafter whose passion is exploring the relationship between creativity and spirituality.

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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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MAY 2, 2011

Each year I post a list of favorite Have Fun Do Good books. The deadline to apply for the June 23-28 workshop at Ocamora Retreat Center in Northern New Mexico is May 6th , so don't delay! I have a feeling Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart will be included this year.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. Earlier this year, authors Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp answered the following questions about their book: Susanna Camp Question: What inspired you to write your book? We both started in tech in San Francisco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Shoot me an email.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. Awhile back, authors Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp answered the following questions about their book: Susanna Camp Question: What inspired you to write your book? We both started in tech in San Francisco.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. Today, authors Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp answered the following questions about their book: Susanna Camp Question: What inspired you to write your book? We both started in tech in San Francisco.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

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. Fortunately, I'm hitting the road this fall, and I hope to be able to discuss this book with you at a time and place that hits your sweet spot in the effort/meaning calculus.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

Show Notes I've got two blogging workshops coming up. The Juicy Blogging e-course (Feb 2-23) and Blogging for Writers at the Writing Salon in San Francisco (January 29). Their book is, Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere.

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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. 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. My Theme for the Year: Happy, Healthy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

That’s where I met Kim Kastorff who is the founder of Kimpacto , a San Francisco-based advisory & consulting firm working across the U.S., What are some of the best books or blogs or other resources for learning more about measuring impact? Europe and Latin America.

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JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. Lasica , a consultant and author of four books about emerging technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The project kicked off a year ago with a seven-day Train the Trainers intensive in Beirut, Lebanon for the in-country teams who would localize and implement the curriculum for five 3-day workshops that I designed. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t).

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

While you were thinking about getting your turkey in the oven, we were busily preparing the registration process for the Nonprofit Technology Conference , taking place April 26-28, 2009 in San Francisco. . Attend the We Are Media Workshops on Sunday, April 26. We hope you'll be able to join us this April in San Francisco! >

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2005

Whenever someone asks me if I've read a good book lately, I can never remember what I've read, so this year, I wrote down titles as I read them. But I can tell you that after reading this book, there is no way I will ever buy non-organic produce again, if I have the choice. This was the first book I read in 2005.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

September 21 in Austin, TX : Social Media Boot Camp for Nonprofits is a half day workshop with Ridgewood. It will also feature a Technology Keynote with NTEN rockstars Beth Kanter & Allison Fine talking about their new book The Networked Nonprofit. Here's a list of where we'll be and where we want to be. Are you going?

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

He has 500 professional how-to and reference books in his office. She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. She authors the award-winning Networked Nonprofit Books published by J.Wiley and published the The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout. Results were all that mattered. Dan Pallotta.

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APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. You can subscribe to her blog here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

It was during that time that I was recruited to participate in the volunteer-based program, The Teaching Collective, which actually helps to facilitate introductory level political education workshops in various high schools and youth organizing groups. I don’t know if I have a favorite book. We also here at SOUL sell manuals.

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OCTOBER 9, 2005

Yesterday I went to the San Francisco session of the second annual Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp. One of the most exciting things he talked about is the creation of a Global Citizen Center in downtown San Francisco. It is a GREAT book).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. I think "Return on Insight" can co-exist with traditional "Return on Investment" approaches for social media , not replace it. More on that later.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Loyal to the Sky received a Nautilus Book Award for world changing books. Britt Bravo: You talk in your book about how meditation and spiritual practices are an integral part of your activism. BB: Your whole book, Loyal to the Sk y, is a memoir, and it's your entire path to becoming an activist and an artist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

My book, The Networked Nonprofit , helped shine a lot on the work of many free agents such as Mark Horvath and others round the world. Council on Foundations. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Free Agents and Foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This week I was honored to facilitate a mini-workshop, “ The Happy Healthy Woman Leader, at the Women Funded 2019 conference in San Francisco. And, in the course of writing my book, I also know that making personal resilience or self-care into action requires habit change. .

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JANUARY 16, 2009

Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities. And all the graphics in the book are royalty-free, which means that you could reuse them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library. She kindly live tweeted the workshop and took some photos.

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JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development. Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I moved to San Francisco. It was a workshop for white activists, and white folks in general, to just address our privilege and look at racism, and uncover some of that work. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Social change is a giant organism.

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JUNE 29, 2006

I met Van Jones about 10 years ago and he was doing criminal justice work and building the new program here, which was Police Watch, and really addressing police brutality, and we met in a Challenging White Supremacy workshop lead by Sharon Martinez back in 1995. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

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