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.

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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. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. My reflections are here.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

For example, a “Song of the Week” newsletter section might seem fun (and, to be fair, it is!), Who creates the resources and sets up the workshops that help them in their career? For example: Which local business did you work with to screen print the latest member t-shirts? Think about what would be interesting to see.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this guide, we’ll discuss the importance of follow-up emails for auction events, what to include in your email, and three examples of response-worthy email communication. Invite recipients to join the next volunteer workshop or follow you on social media so that they can get to know your mission better. Let’s get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Take for example the Community Media Workshop's Ning Site which is used to complement their face-to-face training session. Community Media Workshop???s keeping workshop participants and trainers connected. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Here’s the list: Function. Transparency.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

Last month, at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , I had the opportunity to run the Community-Driven Social Impact game in a session workshop. The room was full, and participants came up with some terrific examples and options for their organizations. Have you run the CDSI game in your organization or at a workshop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Photo by George Galanais. I’ll be attending and speaking a number of conferences and workshops this month. And, if that wasn’t enough, will do a mini-workshop on using content curation for professional learning. There are many nonprofit, social media, and technology conferences all year long. SXSW: March 7, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I have the honor of leading a workshop for documentary filmmakers. My workshop is called the "Social Media Game: Market yourself and your film using blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing and social networking sites." Here's the wiki I created with resources, links, and examples. You can still register.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

I learned so much about the digital challenges facing Asian NGOs, how these are similar or different from NGOs in other regions, met and connect with amazing people, and was inspired by the speakers I heard and the workshops I took for my own learning. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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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

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. The examples are work place learning, but useful to anyone who is doing training. by Eric Jensen.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. Let that inform your decisions on what channel(s) to use to reach your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. One of my favorite examples is the National Day of Unplugging Campaign. The concept is simple – ask supporters to take a photo of themselves with your campaign message and share it on social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

In addition to the info-packed sessions and workshops, these conferences provide invaluable opportunities to connect with other fundraisers, share ideas, and encourage each other. . There are tons of sessions, workshops, and roundtables to choose from, and they cover an unbelievably broad range of topics. They’re the best!

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Charity: Water’s annual report is the perfect example of keeping it simple, but effective. Their use of joyful photos of individuals or small groups helps personalize the program descriptions, as does highlighting an employee’s efforts, like those of Margaret Mary Debre, PoP’s Lead WASH Coordinator in Ghana. Download Template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

The workshop started with a welcoming ceremony. We sat in the hall – two rows – the guests and the Maori. I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants.

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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. Everyone loves a good story.

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JUNE 28, 2023

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. These stories, preferably with a photo of the donors, can inspire and encourage other aging donors to consider making a planned gift.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! Members of the organization asked us to provide a workshop for their seniors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. The above is an example of how to do this with pen and paper, another way is to use apps called Mood Trackers , journals that let you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques. What triggers these feelings and emotions? 2: Track Your Moods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. Whenever I teach a workshop or give a presentation, I ask the audience the question above and jot it down on a 3×5 card. For example were you the first or only one to do something? Here’s a few good examples of Twitter Elevator pitches. Here’s one for Twitter. Be distinctive.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2022

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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MARCH 13, 2014

At the start of any workshop I lead related to virtual volunteering, I ask the audience, "How many of you are engaging with volunteers virtually?" " If few or no people raise their hands, I ask the question again at the end of my workshop. So I went through the workshop and then, at the end, asked the question again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

Photo by Beth Kanter. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. Examples include the Social Media Lab , Leveraging Social Media for Arts Organizations , and the Networked Funders. How do you do this? How do create an environment where it is okay to learn in public?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution. That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. The photo looked familiar and I realized, Oh My God, it's mine!

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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

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

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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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

For example, rather than needing to spend money printing out endless flyers for a direct mail campaign, you can easily plan and execute an email campaign instead for far less money and with a more sizeable return on your investment. Virtual college + career prep workshop. Virtual silent auction. Virtual tours for museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. 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

APRIL 11, 2012

Photos: I rounded up the photos and screen captured important tweets and put them into Flickr here. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. For example, for the above exercise, I had the online audience take an online poll.

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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. We’re also seeing some great photos of the walks folks are taking. ETR Associates Staff Walking Group. We discussed the importance of leadership modeling and supporting a culture of wellbeing.

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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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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. .”

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

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. Because we call these “kudos” we typically hand out Kudos granola bars, or a different sweet snack.

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