Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

3) Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops on resilience, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

We’ve recruited two rock star storytelling, social media experts, Michaela Hackner and Roger Burks , to head up a 2 hour workshop on Wednesday, March 16 (the night before the official kick-off of the NTC) from 6 - 8 pm. Fill out the workshop application. So, want to be on the 11NTC Storytelling team?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

What: NTEN is holding an online workshop on social media using a Choose Your Own Expert format. They've gathered a group of nonprofit social media experts to help you devise a solid organizational strategy and learn the secrets of a variety of social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. My job was the network weaver.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Bellevue, Washington: Microsoft Azure IoT Workshop. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Kudos to NTEN for breaking the template on the typical type of events it has hosted. Photo by Trav Williams. For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Social Media Lab: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit. As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. The program includes two face-to-face workshops.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Las Vegas, Nevada: Office 365 for Nonprofit Workshop — FREE! — An Inclusive, Interactive Workshop. Naples, Florida: Office 365 Workshop in Immokalee and Online. Upcoming Events.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Last week was the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference and not only did I have the pleasure of presenting a couple sessions, it was also my first NTC as a staffer, as I joined NTEN earlier this month. I had a really wonderful time, and the Community-Driven Social Impact session was terrific! Now for the Social by Social game!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

That's usually where social media decisions fall. Decisions in social media have their own unique challenges, what with the barrage of options available -- and with new ones emerging daily. We empathize with your desire to choose the right tools for implementing your social media strategy. But should they?

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Care2

DECEMBER 5, 2011

According to a study by Blackbaud , NTEN and Common Knowledge, over 92% of nonprofit organizations have a presence on at least one social networking site, but most raise very little money through their social activity. Conferences dedicated to helping nonprofits learn how to leverage social media for social good are popping up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are many nonprofit, social media, and technology conferences all year long. I’ll be attending and speaking a number of conferences and workshops this month. The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 3, 2010

Archive of their workshop at the NTEN conference: [link]. Social Media. My own resources page: [link] It includes links to articles like: Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Before You Jump in with Two Feet in Social Media - Important Boring Basic Stuff First. Donor Databases.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

Thanks to a scholarship from NTEN, I was given the opportunity to fly to Sydney to attend the ConnectingUp! Engaged in many useful presentations on social media and marketing tactics. He was ahead of the game on advocacy and education through social media and awareness. And to the folks at ConnectingUp!,

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

The process of considering how to get social starts with considering goals. What are the reasons for integrating social media into your website? It all begins with a goal: what do you want to accomplish using social media? The goals seek to address “Why” you might want make your website social. Raise funds.

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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. But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. Here's the project description (and it's evolving).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Many are turning to social media to assist them. . In our integrated communications plan, we believed that taking advantage of social media tools would assist us because of its social nature; allowing us “always be on” and present in the community conversation. Developing a strategy . Implementing the strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. The first session I co-lead with Katrin Verclas which was a look at social media and mobile tools. Tags: social media.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Idealware just released an updated " Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide ". It's chock-full of tool comparisons, strategies and case studies – and since it serves as the basis of our " Social Media Decision-Maker's Toolkit ", you know you'll be getting the latest information from this hands-on training. >

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events. September 21 in Austin, TX : Social Media Boot Camp for Nonprofits is a half day workshop with Ridgewood. They'll cover everything social media, including writing to improve your site traffic, blogging, and the newest tools out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

Liz Strauss asks if crayons qualify as social media. It made remember the workshops I taught way back in 1993 for arts people about Internet literacy - the web was just getting started. Maybe if you were ask someone to draw pictures of social media or web 2.0 What does the Internet look like ?

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold. Thanks, Barbara!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here’s what the NTEN team said about voting: We received more than 400 ideas this year — a 75% increase over last year — and we need your help to narrow those down to the 100 or so that will make the 2011 NTC the best one yet. Workshop: Using Community Organizing for Effective Online Campaigns. Vote today!

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

How much : $400 (depending on timing and NTEN membership). There are parties thrown by vendors plus a larger gathering hosted by NTEN. NTEN programmers carefully choose their venues with accessibility in mind, and the whole event is planned with great attention to inclusivity. . Audience size : around 2000. Create Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

One of the first things you may notice on Twitter is the number of individuals who work in technology and/or nonprofits–likely due to Twitter’s early adoption at SXSW, PDF, NTEN and other nonprofit conferences. Social Fundraising. Consider how you can use Twitter to network with other professionals in your line of work.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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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. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2008

This week we have been discussing and building Module 3: The Social Media Ready Nonprofit Organization: Dealing with Resistance as part of NTEN's We Are Media : Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits project. Photo by Terry Bain.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

It's NTEN appreciation month and I can think of no better way than to say thank you to all the NTEN members (and non-members) who have contributed to the WeAreMedia project. I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

NTEN reports in Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report , "Staffing and budgets for nonprofit social network projects -- on commercial social networks -- are real but small, with four-fifths of nonprofit survey respondents committing at least one-quarter of a full-time staff person to these efforts.

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