Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. During these workshops I felt a peace that seemed to resonate around the room. First of all, you can make a postcard!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Not long after, I was leading a workshop in Alaska at a nonprofit conference, and we had another chance to connect. This book is a manifesto for mindset change in our sector, raising the conversations about the importance of self-care. Ways to encourage individual and group reflection and learning. Mindful Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. See the interview I did for Arrive Magazine , pages 34-37).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve been tasked with designing and facilitating a session for trainers during our two-day e-Mediat networked nonprofit and social media bootcamps in Jordan and Morocco. The training for the NGOs that have completed the 5 workshops from the different countries over the past year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 8, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast site , or through the iTunes Music Store. Our conversation began with Patricia explaining the need that La Cocina fills. The thing that La Cocina does well is it's self-reflective. You don't have enough. Most of them do.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Identify larger, big-picture issues that are reflected within routine reports. 8) Interview the Executive Director. Occasionally consider allowing time for the board members to interview the executive director about what is on his/her mind. Tell them your perspective and what you need from the board’s conversation on this issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

I have an icebreaker for workshop coming up that is Twitter on Paper. Note it isn't a list of how to self-promote your content, program, or services - but rather a micro conversation starter guide. Note it isn't a list of how to self-promote your content, program, or services - but rather a micro conversation starter guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. How to engage people in valuable conversation? What are the techniques for conversational weaving? Click to Play - Adam Thompson Interview. Penguin Days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. We also found that 1/3 of the respondents hated going to networking events and also did not have business cards that reflect their unique talents. And this all starts with a conversation. This year I???ll

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The prelude to this interview is a tale of networking weaving. A few months ago, I created a workshop called " Arts 2.0 " which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I was trying to make two points during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. Some of the maps in the workshop were created with social analysis mapping software. Network maps are "talking documents" or prompts for reflection and strategizing. Network maps support "what if conversations.".

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Mark’s infectious enthusiasm and evident passion for his cause make him an excellent story teller and his road trips have sparked a national conversation and movement. Successful road trip stops might be happy hours, documentary screenings, panel discussions, organizing workshops, site visits, or volunteer trainings.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And you all got to know Elizabeth because she’s all over the place speaking, she’s doing podcasts, she’s getting interviewed. We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I designed electricity workshops for families. For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in. I had this dream that I would write about a topic they cared about, send them an email about it, and maybe the conversation would go somewhere. I got hooked all over again.

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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. And during breaks from sessions, did a lot of media interviews. 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. . I'm still recovering. NGOS in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I was reflecting back to those days and I realized that part of my work included content curation, although at the time I didn’t call it that. I also taught many workshops where I included techniques on how to deal with information overload caused by using the Internet to get our work done. Harold blogged about that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. Finally, Rebecca Krause Hardie has some notes from a blogging workshop given at the Museums and the Web Conference earlier this month. | View | Upload your own.

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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. As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. More on that later. This was over two years ago.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

Having courageous conversations about race and injustice isn’t easy. Resources like the UNtraining , Beyond Separation , and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) can be helpful and also have specific workshops you can attend. Ask and Listen. As we know, media and advertising has the power to shape and influence the world around us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? Mike Seyfang responded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know both of you are super busy you’re speaking at conferences, and doing webinars, and workshops all the time, so it’s really a treat to have you. . So the question here is, you know, when you look at your workflow, how much of your time is spent actually having these face-to-face conversations with your donors? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Scott Henderson I was supposed to be leading a workshop at the Cause Marketing Forum on Social Media and Cause Marketing at the end of the month. I met Scott online over a conversation in the comments when I wrote some reflections about David Armano's personal fundraising campaign back in January. 1) Who are you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. It turned up the volume on this important conversation. She says it was “network-held&# resource. 5) Networks make us all smarter.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that’s what I’m going to do today, I’m going to try to cover a lot of ground but leave some time at the end for Q&A and conversation and all of that. I interviewed Steven on my podcast, Smart Communications Podcast, about his book. So thank you for bearing with me so far on this conversation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Many of them don''t have the clothes required to go to a job interview. blog posts from the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

You might see an over representation of Point Lobos- this is because of the pre-conference digital photography workshop a few of us (including me!) using CoverIt Live) to capture everything- I am more interested in the types of posts our Conference Bloggers created that had reflection and analysis (and criticism, we want that too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

You can find the description and bios here and if you want to the video of the whole session, you can find it here. The conversation was non-linear, insightful, and allowed for debate on different points of view from the panelists. Brian Reich’s Interview About the Panel. Knowledge Capture and Reflection. Mary Joyce.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. You’ll recall this interview , and this post , and this one. Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:16 am | Permalink Laura Whitehead wrote: Thanks for sharing! Nudge me again soon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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