Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by KK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

Flickr Photo by TomtheJet. I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, “ Take Me To The Social Web.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

Photo from Steve Song's Flickr Stream. He pinged me today to point me to his reflection on a recent tagging workshop. I've been enjoying email threads with Steve Song about teaching tagging. His blog looks like a valuable resource and I just subscribed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

On Thursday, I was able to do a full-day - 2 two hour workshops for nonprofits on Web2.0. So, while the groups were in discussion, I uploaded some photographs into flickr and put in several tweets. And wanted to show them that photosharing was about having a conversation around photos. and explore the benefits and challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. Note from Beth: Whether you are planning to present at a conference or deliver a one-day workshop, the secret to success is in good design. We’ve pored over the list of workshops at a conference, reading descriptions and speaker bios in an attempt to decide which sessions to attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups! Meet Susan Silverman. I was teaching Web1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

from my flickr photo stream Susan Tenby from TechSoup gave a presentation for a workshop called Virtual Games/Virtual Worlds during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice. Anil Dash , of Sixapart , was one of the speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. Last week, I was honored to do several workshops hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara on how nonprofits can link a culture of well being to outcomes based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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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. We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere.

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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. Yes, they did give me a photo credit.

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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. These have become a wonderful collection of small steps, easy actions that can be taken after the training to immediately apply learning and improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. A few weeks ago I was doing a workshop and demoing some of the tools of social media. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Flickr Photo by Salendron. I’ve been teaching content curation workshops this year and will teach it in the Middle East at the E-Mediat conference in March, 2012 (more about that in a later post). Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy? It is a great technique to keep up with your field.

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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.

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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. How do you debrief for yourself after a presentation, panel, or workshop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I celebrated my 20th anniversary in Flickr and with this video (darn the gown doesn't fit this year!) Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos .

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ). It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Just let me know!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Flickr Photo by elycelfeliz. “I made a mistake.&# Those are hard words for some people to utter when there has been a screw up and they’re responsible for it. It is especially hard given the blame game culture that exists in most workplaces and work relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. Taking seminars or attending workshops fundraising topics or professional skillscan be a real boost to motivation. Note from Beth: This week I’ve been in Finland at the invitation of the US Embassy to do trainings. 7 Ways to Avoid Fundraising Burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2008

and have an informal workshop with members of the marketing staff and curators. The afternoon workshop was another opportunity for education and discussion about social media and the museum's mission as well as a great example of how you create social change behind the firewall. My flickr photos are here

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Flickr photo by Sarah and Mike.probably Decisions are tough. Over the course of this intensive workshop, you'll actually design a social media plan that makes sense for your own goals and audiences -- complete with the measures, policies, and tangible benefits that will help you gain the support of your whole organization.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Photo by Feast of Fools. It's been over a month since my trip to Australia where I presented and facilitated workshops at the ConnectingUp Conference. I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2007

Nancy's Flickr Set. Nancy White is doing some workshops in Colombia. Here are some photos. She is using the Social Media Game -- can't wait to read about it! The live stream is here. More here from Stephen Downes.

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MARCH 28, 2011

And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.

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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. Here's the description of how they used flickr for the exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by Yandel. Holly is one of the smartest people I know working with nonprofits on strategic communications. What I respect most about Holly is her generous sharing of information AND crediting others for their work by building on their ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

Photo by MeanLux. and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. Meanwhile, enjoy these photos. I am thinking now that Flickr 90 second video would be awesome, although I'm sure the Internet access in that remote province is definitely cell and slow. Mean Lux wrote a blog post , but it is in Khmer can't translate fully.

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JUNE 9, 2008

Filed under photos , unplugged. Tagged photos , walk. The Cloud Flickr for the Cultural & Heritage Sectors Raving about a Mexican on Ada Lovelace Day Felices Fiestas! There’s nothing that compares to the majesty of trees. This was written by Steve Bridger. Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008, at 10:31 am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

We also offered workshops back at the conference location to handle the overflow demand. This year, several volunteers, used whrrl a mobile app that lets you and your friends collaborate on creating a story through photos, maps, and updates at a particular location. Photos: Lydia Mann - Flickr. We always managed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. Community Media Workshop???s

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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. Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. I found 3 really good planning templates.

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