Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2012

This session will teach you some techniques that you can immediately put into practice and help you work more efficiently and effectively, enabling you to achieve more in less time and ultimately increase the return of your efforts. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Social media doesn’t have to be overwhelming– you can take control back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Takeaways. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online. How To Focus in an Age of Distraction. 18 Minutes A Day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Flickr Photo by Mike Monteiro NTEN's We Are Media : where the community is the curriculum ! Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to change the world.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

And when I say "we", I mean the NTEN community. Fourteen NTEN Members contributed to the 11 chapters in Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders. Not only is this a free event, we're going to give away a bunch of goodies to help put you in the party spirit. Check it out.

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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. John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Maybe you saw this teaser over at the NTEN blog last week about the WeAreMedia project activites for the month of October wondered what the term fondle the hammer meant. The NTEN WeAreMedia project has been hard at work over the last few months building the house so to speak -- focusing on how nonprofits can use social media effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

we cover best practices in planning for technology projects, providing tools to help you make smart decisions about where to invest those resources. From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Takeaways: 1. Contact me: Peter Campbell psc @ techcafeteria.com. Buy Peter’s book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. The advantage of having all this detailed information on a wiki is two-fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Online tools and platforms can help organizations strengthen existing constituent relationships and reach new audiences. Webb writes that technology can help people take immediate action in a cause, such as post-disaster notification apps. Technology can help charities save money and time. " Mobile is the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

Last week a group of lawyers representing a forthcoming book told us they didn't want us using same for the name NTEN's project. wiki name ( done ). replace old name on the text in the wiki (need some help!). re-do the screencasts on the wiki (will redo over the weekend. Josh Leo's Video Mashup We R The Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

The NTEN We Are Media Wiki is a like a busy bee cafe. The project has " swarm lists " where anyone who wants to participate by dropping in a resource, bits of knowledge, or edit typos - can drop into a particular module and help out. More information at the wiki. Photo by Cbcastro. Lauren-Glenn Davitian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. The wiki content is a first draft, there will be also be a community-driven editing process. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Fast forward to Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

For NTEN's WeAreMedia we're working on a tactical module about listening. There are several more over at the wiki from. To flesh out this module, we need help answering these questions: What are the first steps for listening? Feel free to add to or edit what's there in the wiki , lots of blanks to fill in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Feedburner. Google Analytics. Tangible Benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

So, thanks to NTEN , we offered prizes for participation free copies of books - either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0. Twenty people made contributions - although 7 contributions were made by "guests" - people who didn't register for the wiki. Techniques like this can help build momentum. Nancy White.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Andrew Nachison, President and CEO, iFOCOS, who helped created an annual conference WeMedia , left a comment on an older blog post. We offered free copies of Media Rules by Brian Reich and Dan Solomon to generate participation on the wiki for the NTEN WeAreMedia Project. KISMET - Andrew wrote the introduction!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I first encountered Eric after I created a screencast for NTEN called “ Web Analytics Demystified for Nonprofits ” and ( wiki ). You get questions that help you improve what you’re doing and perhaps even more budget investment to accomplish it. He sent me an email. Click for larger image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Seeing the powerpoint slides along with the commentary helped me understand the topic. All my learnings about screencasting are organized in a wiki portfolio. I have found the wiki portfolio really useful in summarizing and clarifying my learning about screencasting from my network. tools I use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

So that leads me to the NTEN's Be The Media Project ( name to change soon ) and Module 1 that we're building together and talking about this week. If you were doing a workshop, what icebreaker would you design to help people understand these basic concepts? Leave a comment or drop your feedback on the NTEN wiki here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You accomplish this by educating the people of that country on all aspects of safe water, and you lead projects that help to improve the quality of the water supply. Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Pictures or colors that evoke locality and ownership can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

In the long run, they are helping to make the world a safer, fairer, healthier place to live. Presentations and instructional content are an important part of my content strategy and the lifeblood of my work as a trainer. Slideshare helps set my work free and share it with nonprofit professionals all over the world. 6) Training.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. Be Helpful. The problem with Google Code is that it’s *explicitly* for small projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

NTEN's WeAreMedia project has been discussing and building six tactical modules on social media - the practical tips and resources you need before you start to focus on the tools. Help build this module by visiting the wiki and share what you know! Photo by Mill Zero. What are the best of the best resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The paper gives this definition: "Wikis and other social media are engendering new, networked ways of behaving - ways of working wikily - that are characterized by principles of openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action." The tool helps with the how. What does working wikily mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). There is a great psychological benefit to this style of training because it helps eliminate notions of superiority and inferiority, and brings the teacher to the same level as the student. Sticky Note from TechSoup Global Summit (click on image for wiki).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are some technical or graphic design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog.

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