Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” You don’t need a team of crack market researchers to question your supporters about who they are and what they value. Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Survey Your Tribe.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

In this guide, we’ll answer all of your learning experience platform questions and more, including: What is an LXP? A learning experience platform (LXP) is an innovative tool that associations and other learning businesses can use to disseminate educational content to members. Throughout our work, we’ve seen the rise of LXPs firsthand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

There are so many big questions about the connected world we live and how it transforms our society, as this opinion piece from CNN discusses. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. Why aren’t we talking about nonviolent approaches to resolving conflict?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

NPLive, for the unfamiliar, blends virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #NPLive. Further questions and conversation continues in TechSoup’s online forums. The Experts.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

It doesn’t empower you to create new content and keep up with the latest developments in your field. The content you share within the LMS is dull and unengaging. Accessible Content Delivery. eLearning content pricing that brings in revenue and is affordable for members. But what does this mean for your association?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Also, by asking more questions you’ll help break down barriers, resolve challenges, encourage collaboration, and imagine new ways of doing things.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2015

Let's fill it in with Photoshop's magical Content-Aware Fill. Choose Content-Aware for the Contents and click OK. Choose Content-Aware for the Contents and click OK. Bonus: Content-Aware Fill takes information from around the selected area and makes its best guess for filling it in. Maybe someday.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Now imagine you’re looking for the bathroom on a 6-inch screen, and instead of walking around, asking folks questions, all you can do is tap on things with your thumb. Good microcopy directs users from point A to point B while answering any questions or concerns along the way. This is the basic idea behind microcopy. What is microcopy?

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Having internal staff who can make some changes quickly certainly comes in handy when unexpected needs pop up - one argument for having a blended model. Who will need to post, edit, and organize content? There are many different types of “blended models” of in-house/outhouse support. Tip 4: Assess the site’s daily workflow.

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Gyrus

APRIL 21, 2016

The corporate training world often questions and evaluates the concept of incorporating informal learning. The question always arises whether informal learning can be added to the formal learning and if so, how both can be combined together. The post Informal vs. Formal Learning: Creating a Blend! appeared first on Gyrus.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

That’s why we’re here: to help you navigate this confusing sector simply saturated with content, ideas and innovation. In this blend, an L3C is a private organization that does earn profits, but only so that it can conduct business to help a certain cause. So you want to start an organization that benefits a specific cause.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

This is a highly collaborative role, and we are looking for the perfect blend of strong design skills with a generous enthusiasm for amateur and professional co-creation. Some of the big questions on my mind include: If we change exhibitions more frequently, will it drive more repeat visitation? Come to Camp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Having a social culture is about opening up and sharing; letting go of the content and giving more credit than you take. Deanna asked a great question in response, “How do we move from abundance to being relevant? I think this is one of the most important questions to ask and consider right now. The Internet is not an ATM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

I've been doing a Webinar for N-TEN called "Designing Effective Technology Learning Experiences" -- basically about how to make technology trainings more interactive -- which includes designing participant interactivity - either in small groups as well as blended into presentation/lecture. So, have been revisiting MI resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

  I kept wanting to blend them. Not everyone needs a web site and a blog - that age old question - to blog or not to blog? "  I might also add some of the costs of content creation for videos/podcasts/photos that live on your site (or blog) and on other social networking sites.  

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This is less true of Dirty Laundry, which required a blend of friendly invitation to participate and private spaces to contribute secrets.) Facilitators gave visitors a person to ask if they had questions and probably reinforced a sense that you were in the presence of an authority (a friendly one) and this was not a time to screw off.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. Approach #2: Aggregate Content Blog (star example: Food Museum blog ) These blogs distribute news related to the content of the museum. Provide content that no one else does--and lots of it.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. While the Love exhibition was popular, it was our first attempt at full integration of interdisciplinary content on a big human idea, interactivity, and participation. A million thanks to them.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

The USHMM pledge wall is notable for its blending of digital and analog technologies. How do you approach a hard question like, "What will you do to meet the challenge of genocide today?" The table had no comparable physical analog to help people understand how to connect their cards to the multimedia content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Their article focuses on an "either-or" relationships, tackling the question of whether reading or gaming is more conducive to learning. The point of these endeavors is that video games and books provide different kinds of experiences, and by putting them together, audiences can experience more varied, layered overall content.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 15, 2024

A few essential elements of a user-friendly design include: Straightforward navigation: Members should be able to look at your website and know where to click to get to where they want to go for donations, membership questions, events, and so forth. Ensure that all of your nonprofit’s members can access and benefit from your website content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. The key to these benefits is not the volume of online content produced but its reach. Work with communities that relate to your content and reach desired audiences. Does this mean copping out on our core values?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 3, 2016

All the content in the world cannot save you from the harsh reality that an LMS is designed to mitigate. We will start with the following scenario, “I have all of these learnings from a content provider, but… Using them is getting more and more difficult based on our growing staff. What do I do?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Ask yourself some very simple questions: Are my key points really what my attendees want to know? Use the perfect blend of visual and verbal. If you don’t have enough visual content to accompany a great story you plan to tell, consider augmenting with stock photos. Walk in their shoes! Is this information truly useful to them?

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

His unique blend of experience has not only bridged the gap between altruism and business but has also allowed him to develop a four-step approach to help you find new donors for your nonprofit. Those interested will be required to give you their email address in exchange for the resource, which leads to new subscribers to your email content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Ask yourself some very simple questions: Are my key points really what my attendees want to know? Use the perfect blend of visual and verbal. If you don’t have enough visual content to accompany a great story you plan to tell, consider augmenting with stock photos. Walk in their shoes! Is this information truly useful to them?

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2011

The community manager has been around longer than you may think – and I'm not trying to be like Malcolm Gladwell by drawing (questionable) parallels to pre-Internet practices. To tackle these questions, I interviewed experts in both nonprofit communications and online organizing. By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Giving Day Campaigns and Crowd Funding Campaigns Are Than Dollars Raised.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

The LMS is vital in organizing these different types of learnings, as well as shaping the way in which you interact with training and development content. From the way in which materials and content are written, all the way to the manner in which they are being hosted. Mobile Content. What’s New with the LMS?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We invited a private art school to fill a very public wall with paintings made by students in response to the question, "How would you depict love?" We decided that instead of fighting this use, we should embrace it and reposition the gallery as an informal, welcoming space for active engagement with content. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Users have to watch it, then they have to answer some questions, then they have to click a couple things. It is, however, a means to augment your current offerings, as well as further the reach of content which may be underutilized or unnecessarily complex. Can a student master the content in a single sitting?

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Forj

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In any case, the recorded webinar should be enhanced with pre and post-tests, learning objectives, and a “level one” evaluation. Consider upping the quality with the use of authoring software like Camtasia or H5P to allow for a quick edit of the webinar and inclusion of embedded questions and games.

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