Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Section 2: Social Awareness: Reading and Adaption to Various Situations and People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops. When you teach internationally, it is important to localize your content and Tharum was able to provide many local and regional examples and tips. The plenary and big sessions were thought-provoking as they were inspiring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. The organization's goal is to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers, in order to advance effective social justice philanthropy. The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy.

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Plus, it drives increased generosity through social proof (“This amount is what others are contributing, so I will, too,”) and tangible incentives (“If I give $X, I’ll receive this exclusive reward!”) Board members’ financial support also demonstrates their commitment to your cause, which sets an excellent example for other donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The workshop is co-presented by S tanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. We can learn from leading entrepreneurs. Model the Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset. Leadership'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. What part of the workshop was most useful to your work? Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are many nonprofit, social media, and technology conferences all year long. I’ll be attending and speaking a number of conferences and workshops this month. The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. Photo by George Galanais.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. Most recently, I facilitated this workshop with staff at Lightful , a social media platform for nonprofits based in London where I am currently a senior advisor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. The examples are work place learning, but useful to anyone who is doing training. by Eric Jensen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Cultivate and cheer on champions for your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop.

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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. View more presentations from kanter.

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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

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. She coined a phrase “continuous partial attention,” to describe why we multi-task in an age of social media – not to get more done, but not to miss out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. This comes from participants integrating social media with advocacy and communications strategy and to learn from each other along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

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. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I delivered a keynote for Social Good Brasil in 2012 and for a conference on volunteering hosted by Fundação Telefônica in 2014. Stories are social. Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

One of the ways to reduce handle this stress, is to flex your emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. What is your favorite journaling technique? Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. 2: Track Your Moods. How you manage stress triggers at work? Do you keep a journal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. While the workshop wasn't a handson video workshop, I did something along those lines in Cambodia - the curriculum is here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I used David Hood as an example. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Effective Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. For example, with board thing, we all have control over organizing and taking notes on the “sticky notes” – and was interesting to see our emergent collaboration.

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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. I started with a variation of of the human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. I select what I do based on an online pre-survey. .

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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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AUGUST 16, 2010

Among other things, I led a workshop on "social objects" --artifacts and exhibits that inspire people to point, discuss, snap photos, and generally share their experience both with friends and strangers. There are two parts to the workshop: Social Object Hunt. Make it (More) Social.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He provides you proven techniques, workshop processes, real-world case studies and examples and insightful observations from business leaders and his own career – which includes 20 years as an executive at IBM and CFO positions at Cisco and Red Hat. It is earned as much as it is defined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

I'm working on workshop curriculum and a presentation about ROI and Nonprofit Technology for Legal Services Conference. That brought me to the question of "What are effective ROI storytelling techniques?" What are your techniques? Do you have an example of a good ROI story telling? Photo by Sean Drellinger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. How about you? I did it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. 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

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Techniques for More Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning.

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