Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is why it is important for leaders to encourage staff to reflect on their workflow processes and to encourage experimentation as described below. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

The theme was chosen in “recognition of women, past and present, who have been active in all forms of media and storytelling including print, radio, TV, stage, screen, blogs, podcasts, and more. Donate to support the Women Business Collaborative here. Donate to the fund here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Peter Durand did the graphic recording (read his blog for more information about the process - AlphaChimp Studio). Kristen Taylor is the Digital Content/Community Manager and writes the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Photo by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) Conference or Event Blog: A group blog is set up for the specific event or conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. I modeled that I don't know everything. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

His commentary was first posted on the Communications Network blog. "Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. As always, conversations at GEO are remarkably self-reflective. The Capacity-Building Frontier(s) – guest post by Barbara Kibbe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. His particular passion is finding ways that technology can enable new models for delivery, measurement, and collaboration. By Noah Rimland Flower.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Here’s my latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR Blog or below. I’m gathering my thoughts to start putting together my slides and presentation and wanted to stop for reflection and sharing. Communities As A Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. Organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Its very reflective of America's wallets. All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll first explore why grants are important to nonprofits. Beyond just setting funding goals for the year, you may find it valuable to leverage the SOAR Model to better plan your nonprofit’s priorities. Schedule a team meeting with your organization to run through the SOAR Model more in-depth.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll first explore why grants are important to nonprofits. Beyond just setting funding goals for the year, you may find it valuable to leverage the SOAR Model to better plan your nonprofit’s priorities. Schedule a team meeting with your organization to run through the SOAR Model more in-depth.

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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. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 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. To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings. The Yemen Team has some additional reflections on their workshop blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. I was struck by his reflections of the Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. This blog post was originally published on the Working Wikily blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Bruce’s daily routine includes using an RSS reader/dashboard filled with the best blogs and keyword searches. Friending the Finish Line. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

It's not easy to do because it requires balancing action with reflection. I spent less time chasing after people who were not in my network who may have a lot of influence and asking them to blog, post on their Facebook profile or retweet. This is reiterative learning. Which is a fantastic thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. Photo By h.koppdelaney. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 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. To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning. February 27, 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). Evaluation should also include your personal reflection.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article. One of the comments listed other, non-web-based collaborative uses of short-format content, including potluck dinners. Potlucks are a great model for “good sharing.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. I might have them sit and discuss a small group exercise, but the results are on the wall for a standing debrief. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Here’s some examples.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Our values reflect this commitment. A team culture that prioritizes collaboration and excellence. ½ How does your organization’s leadership model and support it? Here’s the statement from their web site: Our team is our most valuable asset, and we’re committed to making IFYC a place where people thrive. Have story?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. The basic idea is that there is a set of skills that need to be emphasized for kids today to be good citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st century--skills like collaboration, global awareness, and media literacy.

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Reflection Research Question Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot!

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