Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

Take for example, Fulbright Finland where I did a workshop with their staff about personal branding and professional networking. The above photo shows their conference room where they have staff meetings. The space creates a calm and reflective environment. There are couches and comfortable chairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. I’ve looked to meditation and reflection practices before – in fact – last year during a guest instructor appearance in Jennifer Aaker ’s “Power of Social Technology&# class at Stanford, I had the class do a reflection activity that involved eating a Hershy kiss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. My reflections are here. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I did some live demonstrations including Twitter and Flickr. I posted a photo of them on Flickr and asked people on Twitter to share why they thought it was a valuable. We got 100 comments 5 minutes from nonprofit and other professionals sharing why they thought it was valuable. Board source. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Lately, I've had the experience of running the game as a 3-hour workshop as part of a second day of peer learning workshops on Network Effectiveness. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. The game has a strong communications lens.

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Additionally, they may have reached a point in their lives where they are reflecting on their legacy and the impact they want to leave behind. Providing educational materials, workshops, or seminars on estate planning and the benefits of making a planned gift, in person and via online video, is crucial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

The session was about why it is important to track outcomes, some examples, and discussion. Mini-Workshop: Content Curation for Professional Learning. I’ve captured some good notes, tweets, photos, and shared resources for each session, but here I wanted to dive into a few interesting ideas that bubbled up. GMN2014. —

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

This was followed by each couple talking from the heart about their experience working together or presenting some examples of their work. Photo by Devon Smith. So, when it comes to panels, workshops, or other educational settings – design really matters. Click to see full size image.

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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. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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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

JUNE 21, 2017

Note from Beth: I recently facilitated a Happy Healthy Nonprofit workshop on bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. Her CEO recently wrote a post reflecting on their wellness efforts on the organization’s blog and she agreed generously to republish this post as a guest post. Photographic Evidence.

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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. For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. It is a generic list of results and examples of Key Performance Indicators. The example above comes from Momsrising , a “flyer” when it comes to measurement practice. The example highlights how they link their key result area to a KPI to associated metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. 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?” Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. How old are they?

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If you’re building up your organization’s monthly giving program, looking at best practices and examples from other nonprofits can help guide you. 5 excellent monthly giving program examples. As you move through each tip and example, note the program elements you think will work best for your nonprofit’s audience.

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We’ve also upped this at our largest service, a five-day summer leadership workshop. Each day we recognize a ‘Staffer of the Day’ for their contributions and give them a creative trophy that fits the theme for that year’s workshop. We are a fun-loving, hard-working group and our awards also reflect the culture of our organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Photo by @sdarine. 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. For example,we agreed that we could quote those who are tweeting and have open accounts, but our tweets would not attribute quotes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. For example, all clusters associated with formal education or advocacy. Some reflection questions to generate insights. Danielle connected me to Daniel Chu, Vice President, Affiliate and Regional Strategies and resident network weaving enthusiast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Flickr photo by Terry Bain. I was searching for the perfect illustration for "five" in flickr and since you all know how much I like dogs , I couldn't resist this photo. I was searching for the perfect illustration for "five" in flickr and since you all know how much I like dogs , I couldn't resist this photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Additionally, over the past 2 years, Teddy and I were very lucky to work with other SF Arts organizations in the “Leveraging Social Media” (LSM) workshop series. For example, social media campaigns are now part of planning for entire seasons instead of trying to sell tickets to one-off shows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

There were some fantastics reflections and comments in the post, " Social Change Behind the Firewall " and you all are so smart that I wanted to summarize the thread and share it with folks who many not have trolled through all the comments. The visual is from a reflection by David Wilcox after a workshop he gave in March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo by Stitch. I've been reflecting on the ideas shared at a panel called " Why Corporate Social Media Marketing Fails and How To Fix It " presented at the Web2.0 Take for example, the steps outlined in this " Twitter for the Workplace " article. Photo by SamDiablo The Tire: Social media forms at the edges of the company.

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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. NPtech Colleagues: @zanarama Zan McColloch Lussier @ericamills Erica Mills @seattledrury Peter Drury photo by Akhtar. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Photo by Thorny Pup. Some of the inspiration for this module came from Alexandra Samuel and her Bringing Your Community To Life workshop. Reflections and questions. For example, John Kenyon - suggested some excellent community resources. Las week we worked on Module 5: Online Engagement Strategies. Nancy White.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. Return on Investment, Return on Reflection: I will integrate my work on social media ROI with general nonprofit technology ROI More about this theme is below because it will be a major focus area for me this year. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A few months ago, I created a workshop called " Arts 2.0 " which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I wanted to find an example of an official social networking presence, one clearly set up by the organization and one that was set up by the users. s what makes it fun. As of now, we???ve

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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. The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans. They now use this approach with other channels, like Twitter, for example. More on that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A couple of examples are the NCDD Blog , Technology In the Arts Conference , and WorldCafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog. A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. or furl.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. I always love it when I see a staff show at a museum or a wall at a design firm celebrating the kids who have come in to serve as focus group members (see photo).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this. Sometimes the difference comes down to preferred tools.

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APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this. Sometimes the difference comes down to preferred tools.

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