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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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. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics. Have you run the CDSI game in your organization or at a workshop?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 15, 2013

Shannon is an interfaith minister, spiritual director, workshop and retreat facilitator, and lifelong crafter whose passion is exploring the relationship between creativity and spirituality. A former magazine editor and creativity coach, she is the the author of five previous books, including Prayers for Healing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2022

Then we set off down the mountain to learn more about the climate action that students at Davos Middle School had undertaken over the past few years as part of Davos Codes , a year-round program designed to engage youth in Davos through a series of STEM classes and workshops that promote the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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MAY 1, 2017

San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California: Sustainability Unconference (All Day). Seattle, Washington: Facilitating Great Board Meetings. San Francisco, California: Let's Learn About Airbnb's New Social Impact Experiences Program! San Francisco, California.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2012

I wanted to let you know about 4 blogging workshops coming up, in case you're interested. Receive ideas, tips, resources, and cheerleading from the Juicy Blogging Circle’s facilitator (me!). Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders! Juicy Blogging Circle: Grow Your Blogging Habit May 16-June 6, 2012 Virtual A fun group blog coaching experience!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. That’s where I met Kim Kastorff who is the founder of Kimpacto , a San Francisco-based advisory & consulting firm working across the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

On September 6 in San Francisco, over 200 attendees at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit (14LCS) convened for its finale event: the Idea Accelerator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! Around Gender. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350. ACCP: The Conference features General Sessions, Learning Labs, Workshops, and The Masters’ Series. Grantmakers for Effective Organizing (GEO) / San Francisco, CA / $1,350. YTH / San Francisco, CA / $460.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

I have been a singer with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus for 10 years, and its social media manager for the last three. 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. The critical path quickly became clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Social video includes the sharing of videos across networks and channels along with the rise of video meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions integrated with social media tools. cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? On July 20 at 10 a.m. Collaboration.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love! I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops. Britt: What do you see as the next step for you?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. The key is to turn these moments of opportunity into concrete action."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

What's it like behind the firewall facilitating everyone in the organization to embrace social media? This past year alone she has been a presenter at NTEN's NTC (in San Francisco) , Blackbaud User Conference in Charleston , SxSw in Austin , the list goes on. I got curious.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

It was during that time that I was recruited to participate in the volunteer-based program, The Teaching Collective, which actually helps to facilitate introductory level political education workshops in various high schools and youth organizing groups. We also here at SOUL sell manuals. I don’t think there’s any one answer.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / Less than $200. Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Social Good Tech / San Francisco, CA / Not available. ACCP / San Diego, CA / Not available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Council on Foundations. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. ” Instituting a new strategy that is not within the cultural norms of an organization has a very difficult job being supported by the existing culture. How have you made able to make change from the inside out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This week I was honored to facilitate a mini-workshop, “ The Happy Healthy Woman Leader, at the Women Funded 2019 conference in San Francisco. As part of the workshop, participants shared what their new personal resilience would be, how they would make it tiny and the trigger for doing it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

.” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. She kindly live tweeted the workshop and took some photos. Photo by Tiffany von Emmel - MissionFish.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

It's still a huge thing for me to go away overnight to lead trainings, or be a part of workshops. That's what I would have expected of myself too, and not really realizing it's still really hard to go to events at night. Daycare tomorrow," or I actually remember what it was.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I met Van Jones about 10 years ago and he was doing criminal justice work and building the new program here, which was Police Watch, and really addressing police brutality, and we met in a Challenging White Supremacy workshop lead by Sharon Martinez back in 1995. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

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