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JULY 18, 2023

Tag the community partners who have helped you along the way and amplify the voices of your strongest supporters. Are you an art museum that posts behind-the-scenes looks at your collection on Instagram? Repost and comment to keep the hashtag at the top of your followers’ timeline, building a community around your event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Tags: remix scholar training materials. Over the summer, Holly Minch, who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

So, I designed a training curriculum that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a process for learning from them. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 31, 2023

Putting job descriptions on name tags helps everyone know what they’re supposed to be doing. And always thoroughly train your volunteers before the event on their tasks! GFS Events gives us the inside scoop on essential event planning logistics and a great checklist for the week of your fundraiser.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

How did Cambridge Community Television get involved with social media and social media trainings? Since 1988, CCTV has provided Cambridge residents with access to media production equipment, training, facilities, and cable television channels to accomplish this goal. How did the social media training for seniors program develop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Tags: training materials. The Topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure of working with ZER01 , the producer of the 01SJ Biennial , a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art, and interactive digital media. Tags: Case Studies Experimentation. The organization has a small administrative staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2009

  I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts for 12 years on a range of arts and technology programs, including a network for artists called Arts Wire. .  The arts community is so powerful in telling stories. Art grabs people who don’t necessarily read the local paper. Do what we do.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2023

Encourage participants to fundraise through social media, and consider partnering with a local fitness studio to offer virtual training sessions leading up to the event. Consider incorporating a digital element, such as asking participants to share photos from each location on social media, tagged with your organization’s hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Arts Council of Silicon Valley Staff. Tags: Experimentation Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. I think this style is a better match for social media as well as social media training. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As someone who has been a trainer for all these years, one of the things we're trained to do is "read the room." You watch for body language to indicate the level of engagement and whether or not people agree or disagree and encourage them to participate. Tags: backchannel. It’s like a new set of antennae."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. What: The art of social instructional design. We had similar spread for those having experience designing and delivering trainings. In fact, we gave away a couple of free copies.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

Like all people, they may love the arts, animals, and the environment; enjoy beautiful parks and fun outdoor activities; and support education and helping those in need. Register for webinar to learn more. People with disabilities want to donate, volunteer, and otherwise support causes they care about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

You can learn more about that in a new book from O'Reilly, called " The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation " by Jono Bacon. So, maybe the first thing you would do is education and training, maybe a live demo showing how social media works and why it is important. Tags: change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

. Screen capture here : I've been running small experiments on the art of retweeting for a couple of weeks and it's time for a reflection. . Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

Arts and crafts. Supplies your organization utilizes on a regular basis, such as oil or aprons for a hospitality training organization. Don’t worry, you’re not alone—it’s difficult to put a price tag on things like logo creation or physical space. Kitchen goods. Electronics. Musical instruments. Hobby supplies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Participants Own Their Learning. The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The keynote presentation by David Plouffe, Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign Manager, is titled The Art of the Possible: Online Branding Strategies and Tactics. Tools Social Networking Training Running Your Organization Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Marketing. Tags: Web Building Web Building Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My colleague, Steve Heye ,and fellow chapter author for the NTEN book, Managing Your Mission To Meet Technology , created the above slidedeck for a career training workshop at the YMCA. It's about using social networking tools to support your career. Tags: linkedin. Lots of great stuff here! Any takers out there?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

ONE/Blog – ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me The Open Road – Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world Tagged as: nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jon Stahl 04.17.09 RoughType by Nicholas Carr – really smart dude, really interesting stuff. 2 homefreeorg 05.01.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Actually uploading photos to Flickr doesn’t require much time, but shooting digital photos, editing them, and then properly adding them to Flickr sets and collections with tags and titles can become time-consuming. Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Foursquare): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The Talkeetna Bachelor Society is a program of the Denali Arts Council, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I learned that CEO of local Girls Scout Council, Jessica Lawrence was using Twitter as a clever networking tool. Her marketing staff person was tweeting, using the conference tag #ISCONF and offered anyone a free box of cookies if they found at the conference and asked, “Would you be my Caramel Delite?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Too much “shiny&# ? May 1, 2007 Jon Stahl quotes a comment by Ethan Zuckerman about “shiny&# – the over attention to cool and groovy web 2.0 functionality. Not always, but often.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. 1 trackback } Recent Links Tagged With "portability" - JabberTags 01.03.09 But hopefully that will change. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival Hosting Again! March 7, 2007 Next Monday, I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. So, submit those posts by Sunday evening!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

George is a stranger I met last week at SFMOMA’s new show, The Art of Participation:1950 to Now. The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. DO train your floor staff. Here are two pictures.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Our funds have helped make Oregonians healthier and better educated, provided greater access to social services and the arts and culture, strengthened the nonprofit sector and improved the environment for all who live and visit here.”. Tags: challenge collaboration competition foundation innovation oregon philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I just finished the first day of a training on Network Effectiveness for Packard Grantees facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute. In fact, Eugene was watching the ant trails from the training session - we used the hashtag #packfound. If there are toxic people behind the fence, there's an art to removing them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

In those days, I was " circuit rider " where I traveled around New York State to work with very small local arts councils in rural areas. I was Jill of all trades, assisting with a wide range of technology needs, from training to installing local area networks. (Yes, Tags: socialnetworks. Can we build a better marketplace?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook the last frontier? And, it is beginning to appear that facebook will integrate better with my workflow than LinkedIn, because of facebook applications. So we’ll see how it works.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read.

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