Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It’s a design challenge.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Membership programs take many forms: flat fee models with standardized benefits, tiered models with varying benefits by tier, and something in between. Knowing which membership model is right for your organization depends not only on your organization’s mission but also its budget and donor base. Target audience. Member portals.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. We can do better!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. Jane Hart: Jane has been blogging for many years and writes about informal and workplace learning. Jason Adam Young (@jasonadamyoung) March 27, 2014.

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JULY 8, 2021

An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition. What is the importance of eLearning assessments?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

During the diplomatic conference, Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries could hope to achieve with the Treaty. As a result, the Treaty closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States. And when you sign the treaty, you haven’t succeeded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

And while this model is describing individual behavior, individuals make up organizations – so I think it is important for people working in organizations to understand, whether they are the executive director or the social media manager. I was even lucky enough to coax Nancy into an impromptu role play to model some of the techniques.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. Create a written plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. ” This books updates their experiences and provides easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks. Networks can achieve great impact.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

The goal is to ensure that adult learners are prepared to learn new information, and then able to transfer that information to application after the event. They wanted to strengthen connections with ETR’s Health Equity Framework, an evolving model that is essential to all of the work we do. Taking Care of the R-Team.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She frequently directed information towards individuals in the group based on their background, gender, or occupation, which made us feel like she was customizing the experience for us. But participatory facilitation can be taught. I avoid them. What made it so special?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Publishers provide more than 80% of the thousands of books added each month to the virtual bookshelves of our online Bookshare library, under voluntary permission agreements modeled after the Chafee Amendment. To that end, we need to turn inaccessible images, such as equations in a digital math book, into machine-readable information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Program Design.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. Beta leaders need to be curators, not commanders,” she explains.

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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. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It required that we built and scaled systems quickly so that diverse stakeholders and partners, including donors and volunteers, community based organization partners, and restaurants, had accessible and transparent access to the information they needed. Our organization grew at a rapid pace, providing over 50,000 meals weekly.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Next, participants did a self-assessment, using the maturity of practice model ( Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ). I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. JD Lasica and I co-facilitated a workshop on measurement.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

On a daily basis, I work with the organizers in all these cities as well as those interested in organizing in their community, to connect them to each other, share information and ideas, and create innovative ways to link the global network. We now have over 50 cities globally hosting monthly events with many more getting started.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged.

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Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. Six initial observations have emerged as the most important: The substance of the peer learning experience should be of immediate use in the participants’ work—ideally an emerging area that needs attention where there is not yet a lot of information, and where the group can co-create material.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Social media tools can help you easily connect with people who have the knowledge, resources, and ideas to share. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. How to put network weaving into daily practice? Think about your current work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

When consider crowdsourcing in the above context as a method for obtaining pertinent information and perspective from relatively large numbers of people, it is useful to differentiate between it and collective intelligence, a related concept.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Digital advertising offers an array of platforms that facilitate donations: Let’s talk about what kinds of online giving options are available for most nonprofit organizations. Through these you can collect important information like registration, sponsor, and bidder information to utilize at a later date for future campaigns and events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. Peter Durand did the graphic recording (read his blog for more information about the process - AlphaChimp Studio). Peter Durand, Flickr Photo.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. Adults who were previously dependent on their children could now take the lead as confident facilitators. This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. ” The reports offers up the metaphor of “ how shift from fighting fires to innovation ” The report also talks about an organization’s cultural readiness to switch to a culture of continuous improvement, using a blog post I wrote about being data-informed for inspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It is informal knowledge transfer around using the tools. So, this is the network effect of that model. And, I wonder how that can be facilitated by the Internet and Technology. The fact is that we don't know very much, but collectively we know a lot because people have different knowledge. "Cheating."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.) The information is also valuable for improving the learning design. In addition to the concrete technical and tactical action steps (e.g. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Community-Driven Model. Principles.

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