Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

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. Here's the description: Join Beth Kanter who has been teaching nonprofit technology workshops for over 15 years, both offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I had to do it for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop. " We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. Last week, I took along my N95 and used as a documentation tool - and a way to bring others from outside the class into the discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate.   We didn't drill down into the tools at all - most mostly concepts and case studies. .     I have two workshops coming up where that might be the case. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors! Today we're looking at Micro Media tools. This is any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.

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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

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. after John Smith pinged me and Nancy about an experiment with this tool. Does collaboration on the mindmapping tool work best in real time or asynchronous - or does it not matter? It feels like a visual wiki to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. The workshop begins on April 20th and you can register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

My colleagues in the UK David Wilcox and Dave Briggs have started an open process to develop some tool kits for organizations and social media. A facilitated workshop. The etoolkit wiki is here. The toolkit has 3 components: The toolkit itself, a prepared pack of information. It came from this open project: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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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

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

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

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

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

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support. Participants made name badges using selecting tool names for their first and last name. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Not wanting to miss an opportunity to play with my new toy, err, learn how to use my new tool, the Nokia N95, I did a live broadcast of our dinner. Here's the blurb: Are you in, leading or interested in the development and support of communities of practice who want or need to use web based tools to connect and be together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Designed to support social sector organizations and consultants with tools and resources to get ready for engagement in capacity-building projects, ImpactRising.org aims to help make the consulting sector stronger. In that spirit, I’m excited to introduce ImpactRising.org as a resource to nonprofits and the consultants they work with.

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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. These sections are: .

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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

APRIL 4, 2010

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. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki.

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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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Add : Community management, big data, mobile apps or social media… Mix in : hackathons, social media surgeries, workshops, panel discussions or social minglers… Our amazing volunteers have put together a delicious menu of events for you this month. Denver, CO: Lighten Your Load with Online Tools. Monday, November 18.

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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

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

AUGUST 3, 2007

As part of his Austraila tour in the fall, the brilliant Cogdog has put together an awesome workshop wiki called 50 Web2.0 Just three steps: Outline a Story Idea Find Some Media Pick a Tool to Build Your Story. And, wow, that list of tools. But even better, he told the same story using the 50 different tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Demetrio Maguigad , New Media Manager Community Media Workshop Almost two years ago,  I did a workshop with David Wilcox in Birmingham for LASA.   I set up a wiki where I've collected links to others who have remixed and was hoping to create some templates and source material for people to remix it. .)  

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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. Here's the project description (and it's evolving).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Part of the Hawaii Social Media Club Workshop.  I won't be going over the tools in detail as many will have been discussed during the early part of the day and they can ask one another in their small groups.    Each tool is worth a certain amount of points and each group can only have up to ten points.

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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

JUNE 25, 2012

The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks. Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.)

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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

JUNE 2, 2007

Today, about 10 minutes before I had to leave for the Making Media Now Conference in Boston to do a workshop for documentary filmmakers on how to use social media tools to market their films, I got the blue screen of death. The workshop and curriculum can be found here. I had to let it go and actually did.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How to pick the best tools for your particular collaboration challenges. His best selling Accomplishing More in Less Time, Less Effort, and Less Stress workshop enables business professionals to better cope with information overload and competing priorities. How to work together effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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