Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you can’t avoid long stretches of meetings, give yourself an “audio only” break. What that means in practice is that norms are the ground rules for how a group of people communicate and collaborate with each other. Not only turn your camera off, but turn away from the screen to reduce the cognitive load.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. This cohesive approach enables your supporters to contribute to your cause with just a few clicks.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover the top four best practices to enhance your healthcare organization’s website: Map and optimize the user journey. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Prioritize accessibility. Make your donation and/or volunteer opportunities easy to find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. NGOs master the skills and put them into practice. Thank you SMEXbeirut !

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

One thing we know for sure is that technology and digital marketing are more central than ever to nonprofits’ strategies. While your traditional events are likely on a pause right now, your nonprofit should still have effective event management tools to facilitate registration and other related processes. Event management tools.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

So we have put together this list of virtual conference best practices to help you hit the ground running and host the best conference possible! Best Practices for Running a Virtual Conference. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. I'm pretty sure an audio recording will be available eventually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

NetChange Week is an impressive event that explores the intersection between social technology and social change started a year ago. It takes place at The MaRS Discovery Centre in downtown Toronto (a hub for science, technology and social entrepreneurs) and there are fourteen events, each with a unique focus and target audience.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

So we have put together this list of virtual conference best practices to help you hit the ground running and host the best conference possible! Best Practices for Running a Virtual Conference. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

We "met" when we both took the incredible Nancy White 's Online Facilitation Workshop. How can one integrate audio/podcasting and video logging into online conversation effectively? I pointed her to some how-tos and the next thing I know there is this fabulous blog called " Communities of practice for development."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. From my experience in doing technology trainings, no matter well you describe levels and content, you always get a range of experience, comfort, and skill. . Yes check here ).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. As Beck puts it: I think there’s something human in sheet music, something that doesn’t depend on technology to facilitate it—it’s a way of opening music up to what someone else is able to bring to it. Sheet music is not a new technology.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

As we do every year, Forum One participated in the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). It helped me meet and reconnect with some of the most inspiring people in our industry, catch up on the latest social media technologies ( Whrrl !) Michaela and Brian at the World of Coca Cola. As always, the event was a blast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

And, I wonder how that can be facilitated by the Internet and Technology. Here's a ten-minute audio of her talk from LearnOnline. It's the context of someone's practice that makes the light blubs go off. There are ways that technology allows us to look over each other's shoulder. Anyway, more to ponder here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences. Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. online facilitator? somewhere around 1996 or 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. Collaborating.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This is where having the right technology comes in handy. Branding is a web design best practice because it can help your organization: Increase brand awareness. Captions for audio-based content. If your nonprofit has videos or other multimedia content with audio, include captions synced with the audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? No one clicks on the button.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Obviously, a virtual event relies on technology much more than a live event. This reliance on technology means that it is entirely possible, if not likely, that some online attendees will experience issues. . The purpose of the dry run is to practice using the event technology and test the transitions between sessions. .

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Are you promoting cutting edge technologies in a physical trade show supported by access to virtual trade show elements? . Assess venues for safety practices. Beyond safety, look for a venue that can accommodate your technological needs as well. Choose the right event technology. What are your short term goals?

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Thankfully, today’s technological landscape is rapidly advancing, and the best way to surpass these challenges is by going virtual! Thanks to the expansive technological world, members from across state lines can join your team. Reliance on technology. Introducing new technology often comes with hurdles and learning curves.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Obviously, a virtual event relies on technology much more than a live event. This reliance on technology means that it is entirely possible, if not likely, that some online attendees will experience issues. . The purpose of the dry run is to practice using the event technology and test the transitions between sessions. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitator a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. The technology is an overlay to get more attention for the art.” Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. I could practically teaching this class. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. Move aside, Julie.

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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. Racist practices familiar within capitalism are also reproduced in the platform economy. What’s not to like?

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