Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

The Networked Health Organization. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I got to learn a few new tricks and continued to polish approaches already in my toolbox. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. Our session was lived streamed. I had organized parallel online activities that mirror what we were doing the room. Blog Posts: Wild Woman Fundraising and Wiser Earth wrote session recaps.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Below is my fully human-generated reflection. Devi shared some inspiring examples of how the technology can serve missions and stakeholders, including disaster response organizations leveraging AI to predict and respond to crises more efficiently, and educational nonprofits using AI for tailored learning experiences.

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MARCH 25, 2014

We framed the session as what to think about before, during, and after a training , using the “ADDIE” model as an organizing device. As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee. For the past 24 years, they organize an annual grassroots, volunteer event called " International Coast Cleanup " where hundreds of thousands of volunteers hit spend a few hours removing trash and debris from coastlines, keeping track of every piece of trash they find.

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AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations. We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. Design Protocol.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. I’ve felt a huge mix of pressure and enthusiasm to launch another one from previous organizers and cities who missed it the first time around. So, can we have a Twestival every week?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. I applied the lessons learned from that to the challenge was scaling this for 300 people from different organizations in a way that helped experience a strategy brainstorm and help them make choices about the tool/tactical sessions later in the day. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). The Challenge of Transfer.

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JULY 27, 2015

The second day was a networked leadership workshop that focused on how participants could use their personal brands on social in service of the organization’s mission and practical leadership skills training. I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. She calls it "joyful funeral" -- that you quickly say this didn't work, reflect on why, and move on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” For starters, follow the #sm_re hashtag on Twitter. … Read More Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

He talks about the powerful combination of social media and peer learning. His post reflects on his years of “learning in action” on his instructional practice of peer-to-peer, global learning via social web. The ultimate test of peer learning is to organize a course without the direction of an instructor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise. I was able to organize my high school reunion in a half hour because I was friends with everyone on Facebook.". "My My personal blog was getting more hits than our organization's web site.".

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. Social Media Not As A Job, But Organizational Skill Set: One CEO took to the mic and shared how their organization is getting results with social media and how he is also presence as himself on social networks.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. The learning objectives were: make decisions about how to effectively integrate social media into organization's overall web communications plan. What of all this “stuff” is truly relevant for me and my organization?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. ” (Here’s a reflection from Akhtar Badshah).

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APRIL 8, 2020

A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question. The reflection questions might include: What resonated? The first rotation is a quiet reflection alone. Reflection & Takeaways. For the final round, the client gets to share what is most valuable.

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APRIL 4, 2010

One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. We had space for 25 organizations out of the 100 that applied. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months.

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DECEMBER 12, 2009

The big ah ha for me during our reflection that was that effective online collaboration tools for working in a networked way can't have top-down control interaction design. I think it is more than just having self-organizing values embedded in the way the tool works. I'm thinking about organizations such as 350 or Moms Rising.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. Additionally, over the past 2 years, Teddy and I were very lucky to work with other SF Arts organizations in the “Leveraging Social Media” (LSM) workshop series.

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APRIL 16, 2013

We discussed what needs to happen inside of organizations and in the funder community to help nonprofits embrace failure and learning. And yes, as promised there were a few f-words dropped (Brian started it).

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MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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APRIL 12, 2010

On the content side, I was surprised to hear the responses to the simplicity exercise - what could your organization do less of? Meetings was a big one, followed by worry! Pretty good for only being in the room together one time before and presenting together for the first time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

If you think about it, our nonprofit organizations already have rituals — from the boring everyday activities like coffee breaks to larger events such as annual meetings and holiday parties. Celebrate that milestone with anything festive that fits your organization’s values, is inclusive, and everyone finds enjoyable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other! Frank Barry organized a series of Ignite presentations about social media and Nonprofits. And, that through this comes learning and insight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What surprised me though, was the share pair report out exercise, “What are the conversation starters about concerns that your organization needs to have to build a social media policy?&# I was surprised that most of the topics were tactical and how to questions. And, they’re issues not to be taken lightly.

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MARCH 27, 2008

A few days ago TechSoup and Flickr sponsored an online event discussion about the use of Flickr and photography in non profit organizations. She blogged her reflections into one excellent post! Michaela Hackner participated and had some great insights. More from the TechSoup blog.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I also use it as a reflection as the year progresses. What about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I believe that social networking can do better by thinking about network structures, understanding roles of people, making organizations more sociable and blending social media. Digital media’s potential for building harmonious civil society is considerable.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

In addition to a plan and freezing other non-priority project work, reflection is a critical aspect so staff can make adjustments and also share their experience with others in the organization. According to the book, on-the-job learning is successful when: -Staff member has worked with the organization for more than 3 months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) My take away was from something that Marnie Webb said, "The new tools allow people to self-organize, something that nonprofits have been great at doing.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

” Not surprisingly, charity:water was one of the organizations selected. She framed it as “edgy technology that may not work, but if it does it will leads to dramatic social innovation.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

Last week was the first week of our workshop as laboratory and Brownyn offered her meta reflections here and Sus Nyrop shared her thoughts here and Nancy White here. The participants will write up some more formal reflections towards the end of this week. I followed to lead trip into the NpTech Tag Community.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” Within a few years, it grew to be a community of people who use it as a tool for planning, organizing, and adjusting the methodology to their life habits and routines. What is the Bullet Journal System?

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JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions. Year in Review.

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