Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I really enjoy teaching in different cultural contexts and observing different learning styles and approaches to working for a nonprofit. While many of the challenges for embracing a networked mindset and implementing a digital strategy that makes use of social media channels are similar for US nonprofits, there were some unique differences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

A Culture of Learning – Guest post by Teri Behrens. At the “Learning in Public” breakout session, Beth Kanter, Jared Raynor (TCC Group) and Kathy Reich (David and Lucile Packard Foundation) sharing the Packard Foundation’s experience with learning in public. The GEO 2012 conference is off to a great start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It was a great learning experience from both a process and content perspective. You do this to consider who to connect and engage in your professional network for learning or help your organization address social change goals. Learning from Adjacent Practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

As such, I’m facilitating many peer groups and always looking at how leverage peer learning. My colleagues at Monitor have taken a deep dive into the question of designing peer learning with impact. They want to hear about your experiences. Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning – Guest Post by Noah Flower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Gail’s question at the end of this post made stop and think. Keeping people engaged in learning along the way happens when people discover that it is the learning that is exciting part! Keeping people engaged in learning along the way happens when people discover that it is the learning that is exciting part!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Learning in Public – Guest post by Victoria Dunning. Learning in Public. It involves creating a forum where wide and varied stakeholders can share and learn together in an open, transparent way. It allows us to see and share our success and failures for ourselves and others to learn from and advance to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The stories are told in the best way for the platform or what we called “optimized” and the narrative is aligned. It is also important to learn how to experiment telling your story in new and emerging channels. To be successful, fundraisers need to learn how to speak “emoji.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

I’m just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. How do create an environment where it is okay to learn in public? Photo by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. While they confess that they still don’t know the ultimate answer to that question, they have learned a thing or two in their continued pursuit of that goal. How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Learn stress reduction strategies for yourself and your team. Thursday, Dec 8 at 11am CT/12pm ET: Nonprofit Hub webinar understanding and reducing burnout in the nonprofit sector. Outcomes of the webinar: Identify common sources of burnout in nonprofit organizations. Develop a plan address competing priorities without creating new stresses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Learning in Public Challenges and Actions – guest post by Annie Hernandez. I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful. A lot of our grantees have also been interested in and learning about dashboards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. No one knew what I was talking about. I’m not sure I did, but fast forward two years and it is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

If you want to convert donors online and inspire people to align themselves with your cause, invest time in learning how to write great copy, or even hire an expert to do it for you. Joanna Wiebe’s Copy Hacker e-book series is great for learning how to write web copy. Learn more here. Image from Flickr by Xurble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. We distributed the cards and had participants pair up with peers to learn more about their successes. Training Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

.&# I’ve been giving some mindful attention to my system for professional learning online, using social media – and blog reading habits are definitely a part of that system. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

The design was intended to create an opportunity for cross-generational learning, peer sharing, and lots of interaction and it was exciting to work with faculty members to design the lesson plan. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

As a trainer, one way to learn is to observe and take process notes. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2011

So when Diana Scearce asked me to try to synthesize the learning at the end of the conference, I was at a bit of a loss. So when Diana Scearce asked me to try to synthesize the learning at the end of the conference, I was at a bit of a loss. It didn’t make any sense to just [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

What immediately came to mind was Bloom’s Taxonomy that classified different intellectual behavior related to how children learn. Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

Keynote : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data – I shared some high level ideas from my book and discussion about the three big themes. Mini-Workshop: Content Curation for Professional Learning. That is the wrong place to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2011

If Zoos and Aquariums had a benchmarking process or what I starting to call “ bench learning &# where there is a dashboard of peer metrics to review and discuss with peers, they might discover a wealth of insights. What have you learned? Do you benchmark your organization with peers in your sub-sector? How do you do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Or would you learn, pivot, and improve? Director of Programs and Policy answered a few questions about how they used learning and pivoting to get better results. What did you learn and how did you pivot? We learned that it takes thoughtful planning and smart execution to support a crowd funding campaign. Masha Chernyak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

What have you learned, Dorothy? She had to learn it for herself.” ” Tin Man: ”What have you learned, Dorothy?” I often think of the above exchange when foundations talk about learning. What have you learned? Do we know what we want to learn? – Guest post by Peter Laugharn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

One of my key themes for the year is to look at failure and learning – and will also have a chance to dive into a conversation at the upcoming COF Conference with colleague Peter Sims , Author of Little Bets and founder of BLKSHP. His book has a great summary of the research out there on what is failure. Don’t Make A Mistake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

The day ended with a talk by Christie George, New Media Ventures, about the need for more risk capital (funding that makes it okay for a project to fail and learn ). Bob Filbin from DoSomething says they test language all the time, especially for the call to action – learn more versus sign up. Read more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

It’s also having a clean, complete, and accurate data and the discipline to make sense of the data and use what you learn to improve results. You write anything you want as long as it is about measurement and learning from your data. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning – guest post by Cindy Rizzo. Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. How to set aside time for reflection and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’ve also used this as benchmark for my training and peer learning projects so one could quantify transformation. Sometimes a too rigid focus on measurement can lead us away from being innovative and taking small risks or little bets – and even more importantly learning from failure. Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” The Presencing Institute grew out of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning, which was founded by Peter Senge and his colleagues. The word “Presencing” blends the words “presence” and “sensing” and works through “seeing from our deepest source.” One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.”

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