Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta. Use Learning Theory. This book is a must-have for any serious trainer.

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JULY 24, 2009

EPIP Slides View more presentations from kanter. This prevents making tool-based decisions. I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. I feel really inspired!

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JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools. What are some tips and techniques? How do you scale?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. The professional tools for monitoring and analyzing social media data can be expensive and pose a steep learning curve.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. Colorado Project. Some Reflections.

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MARCH 30, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. .

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AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This was designed as a peer learning activity – so it was the participants who were mostly the presenters. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Crash Course: Social Media for Arts People View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: arts ). Should Your Organization Embrace Social Media or Not? ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I'm presenting on a few panels, coordinating the Day of Service (have done this since 2002 as a paid consultant), and designing a panel on Social Media and ROI. The presenter will not have control of their computer. Each case study will showcase a different outcome, metric, and tool and share some words of wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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JUNE 11, 2009

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the annual Community Media Workshop: Making Media Conference where I gave a keynote last year. Secret Sauce: Chicago Workshop Final Slides View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. I taught two workshops ( notes are on the wiki.) Is it centralized or decentralized?

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APRIL 4, 2010

ArtsLab SF View more presentations from Beth Kanter. 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. So, I ask for volunteers who love leading meetings and making brief presentations.

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AUGUST 25, 2006

Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. Why map your network with a software tool? How technical?

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. The classic technical glitch for me was doing a presentation at the Cloisters in NYC for a group of arts education teachers. I loved how these matched what I presented as the themes. This was circa 1997. I arrived two hours early.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. I'm nervous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The authors are David Brotherton and Cynthia Scheiderer who will present the report at the upcoming Communications Network conference. tools and techniques. tools, a couple of good mini-case studies, (the one about the Nitrogen Wiki ) and a focused list of references from the philanthropy world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? Of course, the more efficient approach would be to get people to add the info themselves directly into a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. DIA blog reports from the Freedom To Connect conclave today, and came back with a bit of darkly indistinct video of the feature presentation by Yochai Benkler. Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. How research or any type of findings are packaged and presented can impact how readily the knowledge is put into practice.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Using monitoring tools. Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. Know your keywords.

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MARCH 26, 2009

"Watching Websites" a presentation covering the book "Complete Web Monitoring" - Podcamp Toronto PCTO09 View more presentations from Alistair croll and sean power. I connected with Sean via Twitter when I was researching tools and techniques for listening and ROI. Then look at the tools. Let me explain.

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JULY 16, 2012

But I also love using those pens for visualization techniques and especially to sketch out charts and graphs. I did a deep dive on data visualization techniques while working on a chapter of my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , with co-author KD Paine. That’s when I heard about the book, “ I Love Charts.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. Introduction. So, I shared with participants how I discovered relevant examples.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. Therefore, my new question in presentations about social media has been to ask: Is this new? Crowdsourcing 101. Think Yelp , eBay , or Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. What social media tools are they currently using? There is more and more audience research for users of particular social media tools and a lot of it is free. Tactics and Tools.

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APRIL 4, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I am on a panel about measurement: Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Or are you maybe even drowning in data and looking for someone to throw you a life-saving suggestion for software and other tools? 100 Infographic Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Here's why: I attended and presented at the Indian Leadership Forum in Mumbai on Feb 9-11. You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So I scribled down some patterns related to blogging, tagging, photostreams, and wikis. " The best technique I've seen was at the Global s Summit in London -- where there was a "Chat /IRC Advocate" in the room who monitored the chat/IRC and asked questions on behalf the chat paticipants and typed in the answers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And while narrative-based museums have long dispensed with the concept that museums present a neutral point of view, science centers still feel that their trustworthiness rests on their objectivity.

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