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AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively? How are ever going to find the time to do social media? Social media does take time even if you are efficient. Three Models.

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APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I’ve been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects – from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. A list of active Twitter users who do summer learning programs and their members.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

The ingredients of successful social media strategy are to learn from mistakes and Networked Nonprofits have cultures that allow this happen. Maybe they should have thought twice before click send. But the reaction from Twitter followers was more surprising. They didn’t fool their Twitter followers.

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MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. The questions I got: How do know that our social media strategy can help sell tickets?

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JUNE 14, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit where Allison Fine and I will talk about social media experimentation and other themes from the book. You have to be like Thomas Edison in approaching social media and experiment. The design for Social Media Peer Group Learning.

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

Hawaii Social Media Game View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ). Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate.   Heck no!    Hmm.

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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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DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. The concept is simple – ask supporters to take a photo of themselves with your campaign message and share it on social media channels. Twitter: https://twitter.com/nfswildfish.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Orchestras and Social Media Survey View more documents from Marc van Bree. Note from Beth: One question that I get asked at almost every workshop is about budget. How much are nonprofit organizations spending on social media? I mentioned this on Twitter. Find him on Twitter @mcmvanbree.

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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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JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Photo by Justin Benttinen.

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MAY 21, 2015

My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. Earlier this week I was in Miami to do a social media pre-workshop at the Knight Digital Media Seminar. SocialRank is a tool that helps you understand your followers on your Twitter and now Instagram. You need some analysis tools.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. The questions I got: How do know that our social media strategy can help sell tickets?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a mini-workshop at the Director's Institute for the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network in Sacramento. For this group, I felt it was important to ask about personal comfort/experience and whether or not they felt social media had any value for their agency.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

I was reflecting on that and how Twitter can really facilitate network weaving. Here's an example: Charlene Li posted the above tweet looking for examples of social media in schools. Thank you June for a fantastic and inspiring workshop! Tags: network weaving. So, decided to write this post! Have a story?

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APRIL 28, 2008

I had to do it for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop. I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used. It starts today!

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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. JD Lasica , and Laura Novig.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! Social media is a perfect compliment to our public access television channels.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. We know that very soon, social media will no longer be optional. Why did we do this?

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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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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. The questions I got: How do know that our social media strategy can help sell tickets?

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JUNE 16, 2009

Game On: An Interactive Session On Social Media View more Microsoft Word documents from Monica Hamburg. I love seeing how people remix the social media game. Monica Hamburg created the above remix. I'm supposing that the audience for this workshop is fairly technology comfortable.

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APRIL 17, 2009

Recently, I reconnected with colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch , who I met in 2005 through Nancy White's Online Community workshop. I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. I did a mashup with social media framing. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0 Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Last year, I gave the keynote and a workshop, and this year they invited me back again. I'm going to be teaching two intermediate/advanced workshops, one on mapping metrics to social media strategy and the other on listening. (The In other words, are you embracing social media because "everyone else is."

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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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APRIL 28, 2011

On April 14, TechSoup presented a webinar on using social media tools to support, involve, and recruit volunteers. University of Oregon's campus group AHA was mentioned in #techsoup 's webinar on social media for volunteer managing. Social media managers adding their name to a nonprofits page they manage?

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MAY 25, 2007

I have the honor of leading a workshop for documentary filmmakers. at the Making Media Now: Filmmaking in Transition Conference. The conference is focused on the opportunities that new and emerging digital technologies create for media makers. It marks the first time I'm incorporating Twitter in a presentation.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

My position as Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation has been a living laboratory, learning about social media and networks in a philanthropy context. The conversations about what constitutes an effective nonprofit social media strategy have been thought provoking. How to or if to use social media?"

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