Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2010

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to deliver a half-day training workshop for staff members working at Junior Achievement Offices at their worldwide conference. This workshop is called “ Becoming A Networked Nonprofit: Using Social Media Strategically.&#. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. This was a board for a private girls school just beginning to discuss social media in their marketing and communications. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

Last week, I faciltated a mini-workshop at the Silicon Valley/Peninsula Nonprofit Leadership Forum hosted by Compasspoint. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D. His opening remarks and conversation were inspiring to say the least. What terrific advice for social media strategies too. Carson , Ph.D.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. The questions I got: How do know that our social media strategy can help sell tickets?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.” This takes patience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

James Nickerson, who has worked with the SFGMC and was a participant in a peer group learning exchange that I designed and facilitated for two years had the opportunity to share some lessons learned about social media with peer chorus organizations. Here’s his reflection. The critical path quickly became clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Photo by Justin Benttinen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

For the past few years, Social CEOs has recognized nonprofit leaders who are doing a good job on social media. For the past few years, I’ve been teaching a workshop called “ Leading on Social Channels ” for nonprofits that want to leverage the personal brands of their leaders. Inspire others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Social Media Lab: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit. As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. The program includes two face-to-face workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. My job was the network weaver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Roxanne Darling presenting Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop. There are amazing people in this room - a combination of social media rock stars who are based in Hawaii - Roxanne Darling, Todd Cochrane , Lorelle from Wordpress, Neenz from All Top, Colin Devore from Viddler.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. The questions I got: How do know that our social media strategy can help sell tickets?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Now, we’re now ready to launch our biggest event series yet: Social Media September. During our month of social media for social good -themed events being held in cities across the globe NetSquared organizers are offering free workshops and events. Want to get one-on-one help with your social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a mini-workshop at the Director's Institute for the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network in Sacramento. For this group, I felt it was important to ask about personal comfort/experience and whether or not they felt social media had any value for their agency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I had to do it for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop. The screen capture is a visual conversation trigger to answer the question, "How does your working environment affect your work?" Burning Questions Playing the Social Media Game Reflection at the End.

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APRIL 6, 2017

This post was originally featured on The Campaign Workshop blog and has been reposted with permission. I recently sat down with the good folks at The Campaign Workshop and chatted about marketing automation for nonprofits. The Campaign Workshop: "Why should I care about nonprofit marketing automation?".

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Many are turning to social media to assist them. . The Office of Marketing & Communications began the task of dealing with the uncertainty of the library’s future with one strategy in mind – creating communication messages asking the public to “learn the facts” and “join the conversation”. Developing a strategy .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? Download it here. In A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. We know that very soon, social media will no longer be optional. Why did we do this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. The questions I got: How do know that our social media strategy can help sell tickets?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With a virtual event, this simple social interaction becomes more complicated. But, just because your attendees aren’t in the same room, it doesn’t mean that you can’t bring them together for a conversation. Allowing them to keep the conversation going will enable them to remain engaged and boost the overall attendee experience.

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APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

My position as Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation has been a living laboratory, learning about social media and networks in a philanthropy context. The conversations about what constitutes an effective nonprofit social media strategy have been thought provoking. How to or if to use social media?"

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Note From Beth: Having good openers (and closers) are essential to the success of your training workshop. Share what social media networks you use. Renee captured some of the letting loose on Twitter: Having fun at the Facilitation: Tools of the Trade workshop. We saw a bunny and a boat as two favorites.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With a virtual event, this simple social interaction becomes more complicated. But, just because your attendees aren’t in the same room, it doesn’t mean that you can’t bring them together for a conversation. Allowing them to keep the conversation going will enable them to remain engaged and boost the overall attendee experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

On Thursday, I was able to do a full-day - 2 two hour workshops for nonprofits on Web2.0. I'm doing a workshop for nonprofits I'm not sure folks think it is useful Please comment on this photo Then during the report out, I told people that I uploaded photos of them doing the game onto flickr. Then I told them I had twittered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

While the workshop wasn't a handson video workshop, I did something along those lines in Cambodia - the curriculum is here.). Danielle really expresses the dilemma that I find myself in more and more - how do you straddle the line between an advocate for nonprofits to incorporate social media and throwing some cold water.

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AUGUST 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of August 24th).

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " How can I organise social reporting from events? |

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 14, TechSoup presented a webinar on using social media tools to support, involve, and recruit volunteers. University of Oregon's campus group AHA was mentioned in #techsoup 's webinar on social media for volunteer managing. Social media managers adding their name to a nonprofits page they manage?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

A little while ago, we got a question from a client about Twitter. They have the basics down pat: they know the lingo, and they understand the importance of conversation. But they were curious about what kind of content they should tweet, and how to strike the right balance between carrying on conversation and self-promotion.

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