Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. What worked? What didn't? What's your strategy map? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Keynote welcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews. Are you comfortable with managing conflicts or difficult conversations? Conducting a skills and interest assessment helps identify the strengths each board member can bring to the fundraising process.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2021

From your job description to your interviews and, finally, to the contract you ask your board members to sign, you want to be clear that you expect board members to fundraise. Your Executive Director will be the one leading many conversations with the board. The more specific you can be about your expectations, the better.

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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. This conference was designed as an interactive, networking event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

4) Get To Know Your Audience: We don’t always have the ability to do in-depth participant surveys or interviews prior to a training to understand in great detail what participants know and feel about the topic. A good opener will also help you as the trainer to better understand the people in the room and adjust accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Note From Beth: I’m on my way to Australia and New Zealand lead a series of workshops on Networked Nonprofits and Measurement, culminating with a keynote at this year’s ConnectingUp Conference in Australia, so expect to see a few interesting guest posts. … Read More Fundraising'

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2014

This year''s conference will have over 100 educational programs, many opportunities to find and network with your peers and new colleagues, and, of course, events that you''ve come to expect from the NTC like coffee, great conversations, and plenty of tweets. Day 1 will feature 7 different speakers, all presenting in the Ignite format.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. And here’s how to start!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2008

During my time in Sydney, I spent a day with meeting with the staff at the Powerhouse Museum and Seb Chan who writes the Museum's blog, Fresh + New(er) and who I have had many virtual conversations with via our blogs but have not met face-to-face. and have an informal workshop with members of the marketing staff and curators.

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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

APRIL 11, 2012

Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. Then I interviewed them. It was very informative, judging from the conversation and the tweets. One insight is that the denial stage is about the perceived lack of time to collect and analyze data.

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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. We talked about the need for being more mindful of our technology. Mindful Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The guide also includes some advice and tips for funders on how to engage the right capacity builder, including a set of interview questions. The report also includes a section that explores accessing impact and answering the question, “How do we know if capacity building will make a difference? Set goals and clarify expectations.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. For example, a job interview, performance evaluation, or strategy decision. These games are a springboard for further conversation around emotions, empathy, collaboration, and relationship building. Discussions involving feelings can be challenging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

There are different formats that you can use to make it more interactive: panel discussion, or interview experts. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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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

JUNE 28, 2010

I attend a lot of conferences , but mostly as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, or panelist. We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. We partnered with the Film Center to conduct workshops with community organizations around personal object storytelling. These really informed the project, and helped get the word out about the gallery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I presented a workshop at the Bay Area Video Coalition Nonprofit Institution. The nonprofits in this workshop, for the most part, deliver programs and services that address sensitive topics. Great Darren Rowse Problogger Interview by Guy on Sun. They were kind enough to send me a copy). by Ken Fischer.

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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. They focus primarily on women from culturally diverse and immigrant communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Shouldn't these types of conversations take place behind the firewall, shrouded in mystery? Want to write a mini case study or guest post, please sign up here or leave a comment if you'd like to do an interview. This strategy was created through a fast and transparent process that included workshops , the Smithsonian 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. We have these conversations every day with staff.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web. Conversation has been key to Smarthistory’s success, and we’ve worked with several museums to facilitate the creation of conversation-based content. But there are other content models we can explore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits. Do you agree?

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

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. What keeps the director up at night? 10) Select a theme for each meeting.

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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. And this all starts with a conversation. ve presented my 15SecondPitch workshop at: Streetwise Partners and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Why did you launch your company?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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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 27, 2012

All of my workshops are customized design, so I know how to infuse the participant’s voices – whether it be their own living case studies or examples from NGOs in their country or field. Design for Reflections and Connections To Actual Work Experience. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Rose Aguilar from Bay Area Business Woman interviewed me recently for an article entitled, "Women's Voices Boom in the Blogosphere." 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.

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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

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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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

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. interview Museums Engaging in 2.0

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