Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) So, are you ready to channel your inner old-school hip-hop master and start storytelling?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Taking seminars or attending workshops fundraising topics or professional skillscan be a real boost to motivation. If you are too focused on the campaign logistics and stressed about meeting goals, take some time for a field trip to talk with people who have benefited from your organization’s programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Plus, if you order this week only (November 15 th – 21 st ), you’ll receive TWO free tickets to the Social Branding Seminar in Los Angeles, California in March 2013. Order your Social Branding Blueprint now and receive an extra online access pass FREE to give to a non-profit colleague.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion! Sharing photos from reunions or Alumni meetups on campus is another way to make that connection like this Twitter example above from Ramah Seminar. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

In Kevin's take on my session earlier this week, he suggests I develop a new seminar called "Tips for Dealing with Technology Meltdowns for Webinar or Conference Presenters." " I'll start off with a few based on my reflections from this week's Webinar and some from the distant past : A sense of humor helps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

I remember listening to Bill Strickland , founder of the Manchester Craftsman Guild, give a keynote address at an Arts and Education Summer Seminar where I was on the technology faculty. The week-long seminar came with an overall theme and different strands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2007

Twitter is like hanging around the water cooler with your colleagues from different offices, while reading blogs is like attending a seminar on a professional topic where there is an opportunity to discuss the topic with your peers. How, if at all, do we transform this metaphor to nonprofits? Maybe there is no analogy for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2007

This day-long conference will include master classes, seminars, panel discussions with experts in the field, a plenary session, networking opportunities, a box lunch and refreshments, all focused on the opportunities that new and emerging digital technologies create for media makers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

I just noticed via the Google Analytics blog and a tip in comment from one of my readers , Kaj -- there are some recent YouTube videos of Avinash Kaushik Google Analytics Evangelist presenting a seminar on Google Analytics. I just had to blog this one about bounce rate. Some points that made smile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Please join us for a special seminar sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I received an email from the CDC: The flu season is here and the. blogosphere is buzzing: How do I protect my family from the flu this season? Who should get a flu shot? Do flu shots give you the flu? Get the answers to these questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Online seminars that teach non-profits how to use social networking tools is also very helpful as is assigning mentors to projects, which Pepsi will be doing in their program. Riffing on American Express’ Members Project (disclosure: I was involved in this program), Pepsi Refresh Project has a downloadable toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In 2007, Vikki Spruill attended a seminar hosted by the Packard Foundation with Clay Shirky and came away both scared and excited about his ideas. I was most curious about is how an organizational leader encourages learning and experimentation and decides to implement that first social network experiment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I have been doing a seminar called "Ten Steps to Web2.0" Yesterday, I presented this seminar to University Extension Professionals. " which is an introduction to social media concepts and tools for nonprofit use. The title was " Ten Steps to Extension 2.0

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JUNE 14, 2005

Deborah Finn was invited to be one of the bloggers who receives a press pass to the Internet Law Seminar at the Berkman Center next week. Unfortunately for her (fortunately for me), she couldn't make the third day of conference and arranged for me to be her substitute for the day. I was also.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Yes, training seminars, workshops, or taking a class can be helpful to get a good introduction and overview for a social media strategy and execution, but where the rubber meets the road is putting what has been learned into practice. What's the most effective way to do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I taught a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Alliance of Nonprofit Management Conference: Design Lab. After doing a keynote talk about the idea in my next book, I facilitated a design lab at Alliance for Nonprofit Management Conference which included executive directors and people who worked in philanthropy, research, and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I teach a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

teams of kids have attended seminars (in Second Life) from UNICEF on world issues, and the kids are building exhibits with their ideas for solutions. More here on the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang's post was a summary from a free social media measurement seminar with Glenn Fannick of Dow Jones last week. (I Alison is quoted, "They think a better world comes from befriending people and talking about causes," using the same online tools they employ for entertainment and socializing."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2004

One of the co-authors is Madeline Slovenz-Low who had the pleasure of meeting when at taught the Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar way back in 1999. Scholastic's " Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year " was a big hit this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

He is one of the best teachers to learn howto use brand storytelling and social media to build your organization’s reputation, donor community, and social impact. He is offering a seminar (visit www.WeFirst13.com com for details). If a for-profit colleague registers, you can attend as their guest for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

There are different flavors of Creative Commons licensing, some encourage remixing more than others as the Learn Online blog points out in the " The Illogical rhetoric of Share Alike " Ruby Sinreich points us to Liza Sabater's manifesto on People Powered Politics based on the seminar Cluetrain Mainfesto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

NEW SEMINAR! Laura Quinn at Idealware has been offering Webinars and I will be joining her " Introduction to Website Analytics " on Thursday, September 27th 1:00 - 2:30 EST. You can register here. How many people visit your Web site every day? What are visitors doing when they get there? Which features are most popular?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997. The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

While Forum One points out that Michael Edson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum will give a talk called " By The Time You Need A Blog, It's Too Late " at next week's seminar on blogging. Eric Rice writes about the digital divide in California, while Web2.0 happens, I observe day laborers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

More On Social Networking for Social Change OneNorthWest recently hosted a seminar on social networking sites and environmental organizations. How will your organization decide whether to roll their own social network and/or have a profile on a larger social networking site or just say no to social networks? This is a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The spirit of his statement inspired the entire seminar. agenda, TechCamps are two-day seminars, which have so far taken place in 22 cities around the world. I would like to take this opportunity to share some of my thoughts following the seminar: Cooperation is a critical element in solving social problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” This was the one thing I decided I would do as a result of the social media workshop at the Knight Media Learning Seminar I went to earlier in the week).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

I asked social media professionals what issues typically come up in their social media work and how they establish a good working partnership with legal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2014

He describes this option as sending staff to an outside workshop or seminar or enrolling in an online program. As Charles Jennings suggests there are three different frameworks for doing this at work: Adding, Embedding, and Extracting. Adding Learning to Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

The goal of being human has led me to run several Introduction to Twitter seminars and webinars for our staff. It means responding to questions rapidly and directing people to where they can find the information they are looking for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitator a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. But I also got an opportunity to finally hear the keynote speaker, Sree Sreenivasan , Chief Digital Officer of the @MetMuseum in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Wayne Clough, the seminar brought digerati from across the country to discuss how the Institution could make its collections, educational resources, and staff more “accessible, engaging and useful” to our visitors with the help of technology. Anderson recently spoke at the Smithsonian 2.0. conference.

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