Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. But I was also asked to present on Social Media and the Arts at this “Gay Chorus Olympics.”. Above all, the Olympic sized theme we walked away with is Arts organizations lead the way in social media innovation. Our group also discussed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Breakout rooms are a feature in Zoom that allows you to put people in smaller rooms for more intimate conversations. Interactive Meeting Techniques. The Art of Facilitating with Virtual Sticky Note s by Beth Kanter. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. Use Zoom breakout rooms. List of Energizers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2015

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. Engage in pure listening conversations. That means listening and not taking over the conversation with your views or ideas, no matter how much you want to.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

ArtHub AI Library : A collection of AI-generated art prompts and a platform for artists to showcase their AI-generated artwork. 14 Sites to Help You With AI Art Image Prompts : A curated list of 14 websites that provide AI art image prompts and resources. 25 Amazing AI Prompt Examples Everyone Can Use!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

The music he listened to on the radio "got its power" from studio techniques. By then, recorded music was no longer just the document of a performance—it was a composite of style, hooks, and production techniques, an extension of a popular personality’s image within a current sound. They are designed to do different things.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. Engage in pure listening conversations. That means listening and not taking over the conversation with your views or ideas, no matter how much you want to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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MAY 26, 2021

We use those tools and techniques to raise awareness for an organization or cause to help them find supporters for their mission, and ultimately raise money, recruit volunteers, or anything else to help them with their mission. A: A great website and donation page design can have a huge impact on donor first impressions and conversions.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. This report is not an end-all; it is the opening for a conversation. Excellent case studies, especially from the performing arts sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. This helped make the meeting more interactive and also helped participants think about what techniques they wanted to try after the session.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

This is the sixth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. What techniques have you used to set priorities for a big, complicated negotiation? Money is on the table. Values are on the table.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This technique is particularly interesting to me because our county already manages a bi-annual community assessment project that asks direct questions about perception of prejudice. These techniques are not rocket science, but none of them even occurred to me prior to my conversation with Tiffany Brannon.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Art, artifacts, books, and manuscripts are all documents of human innovation, thinking, and activity. Within an increasingly complex digital landscape, particularly in light of the global pandemic, institutions rely on content strategists to use curatorial techniques and principles to bring their collections to virtual audiences.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

"It is a driving passion of mine to get people to understand that improv skills can be effectively translated into the business world with powerful results," says Bob Kulhan , veteran improv performer, university professor, and author of the fascinating new book, Getting To "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv. It facilitates conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

What tools and techniques do you use to create good conversations on your blog? Do you have an awesome example of a conversation on your blog or one that you've started elsewhere? Source: How To Add Blogging Conversations by Darren Rowse. Source: How To Add Blogging Conversations by Darren Rowse. Answer questions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 14, 2016

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. Engage in pure listening conversations. That means listening and not taking over the conversation with your views or ideas, no matter how much you want to.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” While newspapers previously focused on creating stories and moving on to the next one, a priority that has emerged is facilitating deeper conversations with readers and showcasing their feedback. Sherry questioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Arts Council of Silicon Valley Staff. Techniques for More Engagement. What about a certain post created that big conversation. I’ve been remiss in summarizing some of the nuggets out here on the blog, so here goes. Facebook Strategic Objectives. Understand why we had more new fans on a certain day. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Through lively sharing and discussion we will dive into the art of placing small bets or affordable losses that can lead to innovation. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Last night I had the pleasure of joining a conversation with WOW2 over at edtech. It isn't all about technical issues like compression, but it is also covers aesthetics -- for example, with video blogging using the technique of moment capture. I've been a fan of Vicki Davis's blog ( CoolCat Teacher Blog ) for sometime now.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The initial wave of generative-AI examples in the art, music, and written composition spaces has generated a lot of interest within the technology sector. Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

For a human, learning the art of writing subject lines might take years of trial and error. But ChatGPT’s deep learning techniques allow it to create optimized subject lines for any email. Increases Open Rates : Everyone knows that writing effective subject lines is essential to increase email open rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. Micro conversions or steps. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? I’ve written about these techniques here ). Do you have a preferred method? Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef. Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I’m very interested in the train the trainer concept, so for my own learning I have been taking many trainings to learn new instructional techniques – hopefully gaining some empathy for being a student in a train the trainer session. The Art of Good Openings and Closings. Why Movement Is the Killer App for Training.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Mastering the art of the nonprofit ask isn’t as hard as you think. 1) Have a Conversation. A conversation has a flow—it’s a give and take where each of the participants’ contributions has value. Think about your friend when they’ve had a good conversation with you. You’re having conversations every day.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 17, 2017

What a Board is For - how trustees help you go beyond your limits Two Prioritization Techniques We Used to Negotiate a Great Lease - how can you decide collectively what you value most? Think Like a Real Estate Developer - a new way of looking at opportunities on the horizon What's More Inclusive: Food or Art?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Personalization is a technique that uses your donor data to automatically insert the supporter’s name in the video. This personalization technique can be used to insert the donor’s name, asking them by name to step up an increase their gift in 2010. If you see conversions increase along with play-through rates, great.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

I love Trevor Donnell's brilliant book and blog, Marketing the Arts to Death , in which he documents the disasters caused by our inability to be audience- and data-driven in our marketing efforts. The people who produce the programming or who have the relationships produce the messaging, so the conversations are authentic and personal.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2007

Virtual worlds are a new, emerging technology, and like any new technology, overlaying old techniques onto new platforms is disappointing at best. The result is one solution to the "problem" of viewing 2D art--that it's hard to figure out how to focus and be attentive to the piece if you don't have a strong art background.

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