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. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. We even gave away WeAreMedia t-shirts to contributors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. How: 6 Tools and Tips. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. What: The art of social instructional design. Know of any?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. It's always a delight check out what people have added to the Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. mmm… community. Tactical Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

We've had some fantastic conversations and brainstorming on the wiki about the strategic issues, including how to know if social media is a good fit for your organization , strategy mapping , meeting resistance , storytelling , engagement skills , and ROI. The categories of tools are loosely based on the Conversation Prism from Brian Solis.

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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. The wiki is under "by" 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. So, what's my role in all of this? So, what's my role in all of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). Amy Sample Ward has already volunteered for one of the modules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

We'll examine what can and can't be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. It gave me an opportunity to think about how to retierate the content for a full-day workshop I'm doing in Chicago in June. All this will be shared through a lively mix of discussion and case studies. Takeaways: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. tags: arts ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I have a confession. The Blog Usability Checklist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Some of the maps in the workshop were created with social analysis mapping software. Why map your network with a software tool? What are the different tools available?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Recently, I reconnected with colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch , who I met in 2005 through Nancy White's Online Community workshop. I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, we explored questions about how nonprofits go about planning their social media efforts and various resources are summarized here. We created a worksheet with more detailed questions adapted and remixed from CCTV's wiki. Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

By thinking first about the goals, you clear a path for the decisions around which tools you’ll use to get there. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. There are five main reasons for integrating social media with a website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

Ihad set up a wiki with the idea of collecting the remixes and incorporating some templates or make it easier for folks to remix. I've been creating the cards in Publisher -- not the most web collaborative tool in the world - and putting the resulting document up as a pdf. Most recently Nancy White did a version in Colombia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

NpTech Blogging, Tagging, and Wikis An excellent presentation on social media and nonprofits by Jocelyn Harmon and Qui Diaz is being discussed by Dave B. Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! and African civil society for Web2 for Dev Nancy White is doing workshops in Colombia. and Katya A. Follow her trail here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

While organizational adoption of social media tools for external communications strategies is becoming more common, not to mention lots of practical advice such as this recent white paper: The Revolution will be Socialized and the many how-to primers for nonprofits like this one. tools would be misused by their staff. about Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. Social Media Game In 2007, David Wilcox and I presented a workshop at LASA using this game he created. I've created a wiki for other people to remix it and it has traveled around the world. What are your concerns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop. How does SL compare to these other tools and where does it fit on the gradient? And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication? Co-editing WHILE discussing a document.

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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. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . If anything, having social media as part of your trainer's tool box makes this an easy task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve been exploring how to integrate social media into instruction at face-to-face workshops and as well as webinars. I set up a wiki page that includes my slides , a link to a rowfeeder spreadsheet for the hashtag (#midea), and the archived recording of the session. Additional resources. Social Learning In Webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Vendor and Tool Talk: Personal Democracy Forum tells all on CRM Vendors according to the nonprofittechhelp blog. A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ?

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JUNE 25, 2008

link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction. Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] Would you have had better participation from authorities if it had been a wiki? (I

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