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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I’m excited to speak at the Nonprofit Marketing Summit: The Unthinkable on March 5-7, hosted by Community Boost ! You’re invited to join me at the biggest, free, and all-virtual conference for the nonprofit sector!

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MARCH 9, 2022

Allison Fine and I will be presenting at a FREE online book talk hosted by the Chronicle of Philanthropy Online Forum on March 16th at 11:00 am PT. Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a book event or having us speak at your event. We’ll hope you take a listen and be inspired to purchase the book!

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MARCH 21, 2022

The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated Age launch activities continue this week with a FREE event hosted by Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication on March 22 from 12-1 pm ET. That’s why we wrote our book. You can read the article here. Register for this FREE this virtual event.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

And join me next Tuesday, February 22 at 10 am PT for an event hosted by TechSoup about Automation and Nonprofits! I’m passionate about workplace wellbeing and digital transformation and the topic of smart tech weaves these two themes together! The post Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work first appeared on Beth Kanter.

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APRIL 1, 2020

TechSoup has been hosting a weekly themed Happy Hours with staff Participants get to do a show & tell and of course bring their own beverage. Packard Foundation OE staff hosted a birthday party on Zoom. In addition to Happy Hours , your workplace can also host virtual coffee hours , watercolors, and more. #4

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Learn more tips and how to apply them to your team at my upcoming virtual workshop, Self-Care for Nonprofit Leaders During a Pandemic , on Friday, November 6 and hosted by Candid. Too often we don’t do it! I’ll also share strategies to help you develop your own self-care plan and connect with other leaders in the nonprofit sector.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

And a friendly reminder to recycle your old mobile phone if you happened to pick up a Iphone and think about green web host ! Maybe it's the IPhone/SalesForce app that Steve Anderson created? What could that lead to? Mobile citizen reporting ?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2006

There's a few hosts there that were on my radar, to-do list, including Click.TV (Carla, I haven't forgotten). The requirements to start benefiting from these new services and opportunities include: some familiarity with the basic audio and video file formats existing out there. some understanding of what encodign is and what codecs are.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One way to shake things is up to host a “Strolling” Meeting. Here is a simple guide for nonprofits to host inclusive walking meetings or what I am calling “Strolling Meetings.” When you are hosting the actual meeting, share the guidelines about “slowest pace sets the pace for the group and the activity is not a race.”

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MAY 7, 2019

The event was hosted by the Blockchain Research Institute. The event’s technical host, MCI Canada , used a unique setup that facilitated being able to hear many more speakers, tracks, and sessions in two days than a traditional conference could allow. By Amy Neumann. Here is her report. (For

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MARCH 7, 2022

Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a book event or having us speak at your event. On launch day on March 9th, I’ll share a very special video and more information about free book events in March, April, May, and June. And if you’d like to buy a copy yourself, well, I would be grateful for that, too!

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

From stand-alone 24 hour giving days in a local community like CentreGives in State College, PA to GiveOut Day a national campaign where LGBTQ nonprofits joined forces to encourage giving to the grandfather of giving days, Give to the Max Day hosted by GiveMN now in its 5th year.

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JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. I also served on the program advisory committee.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

As part of my blog redesign, I’ve moved my RSS Feed to: [link] and changed my RSS host. You’re still getting my content because I haven’t shut down my old account which I will do next month. So, take this opportunity to click here so you’ll always have my feed no matter where I host it!

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

On Wednesday, they were hosted at Twitter Headquarters for a training. .” The goal of the program is to connect these leaders with technology experts to create a connected movement. All week, these women had the opportunity to visit a different technology company and get training on a variety of topics.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

.” The first nonprofit technology conference (NTC) was in 2002 in Orlando. I was a coordinator for the Annual Day of Service from 2002-2011, a day where nonprofit techies gave their time and skills back to the community where the conference was hosted. What questions do you have for her? askbethk. —

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MAY 15, 2020

What You Need to Know about Hosting Effective Virtual Meetings a free ebook from boardable. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. List of Energizers. Planning and Design. A Crash Course in Translating Your Meeting Process to a Virtual Setting. It’s Time To Get Good At Virtual Meetings by Spitfire. Virtual Board Meetings.

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DECEMBER 29, 2015

We want to include your voice, so we are hosting January’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival. If you want to hear some of our ideas about the topic, join us for the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit Webinar hosted by Wild Apricot on January 14th. Each month, the host creates a theme and sends out the call (in a post like this) for posts on that topic.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Every year Social CEOs hosts an annual award where they seek nominations for the top 30 charity leaders who excel in social media. With declines in public trust and the continuing need to raise more money, nonprofit leaders will need to strategically leverage organizational and professional networks.

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MARCH 17, 2011

I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. After facilitating a panel at the Innogive Conference on integrating mobile into multi-channel nonprofit campaigns , I headed to a special event hosted by Google to celebrate the launch of Google for Nonprofits.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I’m working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

13th, I’ll be doing a FREE Webinar for nonprofits hosted by Salesforce Foundation on “ Combatting Digital Distraction and Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” Come join me for this FREE webinar hosted by Salesforce Foundation on February 13th. Image Source: 7able. ” Come join me. .

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Here’s the information: On Thursday, October 20th at 1 pm EST, Blackbaud is hosting a Twitter Chat to explore what it takes for your nonprofit to become healthy and happy. If you missed it, I was honored to be on a panel of experts discussing year-end giving best practices hosted by CauseVox.

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

I facilitated two programs for grantees of the Packard Foundation based on my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit and designed and currently facilitating a peer learning exchange for the Knight Foundation for its community foundation partners that are hosting Giving Days.

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MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. I think the concept of Giving Days is important and feel that nonprofits and Giving Day hosts should not give up on Giving Days.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

In December, while in London to reach workshops, I attended a dinner hosted by Vinay Nair, CEO and co-founder of Lightful. And, if the truth be told, almost to the point of wanting to crawl up on a fetal position and never another look at a screen again.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. … Read More

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AUGUST 23, 2017

The agency has also partnered with a local organization, Local Matters , with a mission of healthy communities through food education to host a cooking demo and challenge. One of their most popular programs with a partner, Local Matters , a nonprofit that offers nutritional education, to host events.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2006

First, I want to say thank you Caroline Meeks from Solution Grove and fellow Boston TechnoBabe for her donation to the Sharing Foundation to support Leng Sopharath's education. In addition to her contribution, she wrote about a post about Revver. Seems like when she viewed the video, the ad at the end was for Grand Theft Auto.

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MARCH 20, 2018

On March 29th, we’ll be doing a FREE webinar hosted by Cloud4Good called “ The 4th Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence, Bots, and Your Nonprofit.” Come join me for FREE webinar hosted by Cloud4Good with Allison Fine called “ The 4th Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence, Bots, and Your Nonprofit.”

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JULY 9, 2010

Once a nonprofit has developed a presence and a network – and has integrated regular and engaging tweeting into the work flow, the next step is to host a Tweet Up. Name Tags: Make sure you have name tags and if are you hosting, be a good host and introduce people. How To Host Successful Tweetups. Be creative.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. GiveMN has been hosting their giving day , Give to the Max Day for the past few years and working as a peer coach.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s been a one-hour weekly chat on Twitter for the past 10 months organized and hosted by Marc Meyer and Jason Breed. The way it works is they invite a “host&# to ask 3 compelling questions, 20 minutes each, that revolve around a topical subject within the business of social media, but that play to their strengths or backgrounds.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

So, of course, I’ve invited Joao to participate with me on an online webinar hosted by NTEN to celebrate #GivingTuesday at 11:00 am PST on Dec. So, join me for a nonprofit tech gathering to celebrate GivingTuesday hosted by NTEN on Dec. 2nd (GivingTuesday) at 11:00 am PST. What is your organization doing for GivingTuesday?

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