Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? https://storify.com/ResourceMedia/brainerd-foundation-s-21st-century-advocacy-design”>Storify. Why Use One?

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

vaccination rate in UVM students, opening eyes, and doors, for internal personnel to build off that success and adopt a new CRM solution. We’ve achieved a model for success that we can now use as a foundation to build from. Centralizing Communications + Connections in the Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. As a nonprofit technology trainer for the past 15 years, baby steps is extremely important for adoption. Ask: What Area Practice Do We Want To Improve?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. Technology advances have created the opportunity for many of us to experiment with one or more of these models. My idea was completely legal!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Publishers provide more than 80% of the thousands of books added each month to the virtual bookshelves of our online Bookshare library, under voluntary permission agreements modeled after the Chafee Amendment. It has been critical for Bookshare’s foundational principle of “scan once, share with many.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Almost five years ago to the day, I was lucky enough to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor while I was Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. It doesn’t do more than that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Modeling the Network Mindset. As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations? Designing for Serendipity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The workshop was hosted by the Packard Foundation and Monitor Institute. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. This prompted some great insights into adoption strategies. This group was one that was comfortable learning in public and modeled it. You can find the workshop materials here. It worked well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Community Foundation of Monterey County. Radio Bilingue.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Instead of investors and customers, you run on charitable donations from donors, grantors, foundations, and other sources. You may have noticed that as more and more businesses start to adopt corporate social responsibility programs , the lines between nonprofit and for-profit HR departments are blurring a little.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. Blurring the lines between internal/external: What does modeling transparent behavior actually look like on the ground? How is your network or organization embracing transparency and opennness?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. We could do the work directly with more people, achieving impact with those participants and serving as a model for others interested in this kind of work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

It is a game changer, and a great opportunity to improve communication and collaboration, but also great opportunity to develop disruptive new business and delivery models. New Models of Social Change. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

It is a game changer, and a great opportunity to improve communication and collaboration, but also great opportunity to develop disruptive new business and delivery models. New Models of Social Change. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Fundraising Software: Fundraising software facilitates donations, fundraising events, and other online fundraising activities. A strong CRM can act as the foundation for relationship building by giving you the tools you need to get that messaging in front of your donors. Automation: You can automate workflows, emails, and other tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. I modeled that I don't know everything. I've been delivering technology trainings as a one-woman band since 1994 when I facilitated workshops in how to use email or create web pages.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Here are some things that make Nimble AMS and Salesforce a unique combination for associations: A connected member experience The Salesforce platform serves as the foundation for a modern AMS that puts members at the heart of an association’s activities. The Person Account model is the data model configuration recommended by Salesforce.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well. Community-Driven Model. Communities are flexible. Principles.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Maybe it was when you adopted your pet, or when you met your spouse/partner/friend. Who helped facilitate the introduction to the individual? You understand where your relationship began as a foundation, and you have a set of relational anchors to build upon. Was it through an event? A first gift?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Crowdsourcing 101. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m really interested in the work Community Shares is doing and the direction they are headed with this project as it seems very aligned with many of my own feelings: technology should be used to help, facilitate, and empower the change communities already want to be making. Annie’s Amazing Animals ” is another inspiring effort.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena. In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. Did we succeed? By most measures, we did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. And what real world event models can you learn from or partner with? This model might be ideal for online communities focused on local issues. Then check out. Net Tuesdays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Last week, I read Jocelyn Harmon’s post about Nonprofit Facebook Fail and in the comments, Petri Darby refers to the dramatic increase of visits to his nonprofit’s Make-A-Wish Foundation Web site. Guest Post by Petri Darby, Make-A-Wish Foundation. Average online donations hovered at an attractive level. Content Curation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

It’s because they’ve, essentially, adopted you as a family member. And some of the people that you message during these times are going to end up adopting the enhanced approach stance and act. And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. And why is this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying. So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. First, they can become a model for creating a true solidarity economy.

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