Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Otherwise, you waste a lot of time creating meaningless, but cool maps. Who liked each other, who didn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

You are invited to a virtual book launch party ! One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story. Who isn’t connected?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! Technique 2: Affinity Mapping. Books Strategy' What is Human Centered Design? It also put us into a different mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Paid volunteer team at another org.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The group was excited, humble, and diverse, but 10 minutes into the talk I found myself getting more and more frustrated and confused (It probably did not help that I just finished reading an article called When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs ). What were structures in places at the time? .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible. Create a fundraising plan to bring in the money you need, mapping out all your fundraising activities for the year. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate. How will you find participants? Sports equipment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Staff members were at the core of the map. They reorganized the map into clusters. Observations.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. I look forward to continuing the conversation the book has opened. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Some tip include mapping out a good process for work flow and using collaborative technology effectively. Amy Su Jen offers up a great framework for individuals. Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

I hear she is working or has finished a second book on content marketing for nonprofits, and if you haven’t read her first book, here’s where to find it. It’s given structure to what was a wild wild west approach to reaching out to our community.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

Terry and Rusty Stahl have just published a new book, “ The Talent Development Platform ,” that provides strategic and practical information to help nonprofits guide, nurture, and strengthen the next generation of nonprofit leaders. Structured, but flexible schedule and plan. Click To Get Your Copy Now! Agreed upon plan. Evaluation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2010

book club will be starting in two weeks to read and discuss The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg. Oldenburg is the individual to whom the term "third place" is attributed, and this well-researched 1989 book put him on the map. Here's how the book club will work: Get your hands on a copy of the book in the next couple of weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Instead, tools focused on systems-thinking/ visualizing, network-mapping, asset-based inquiry, collaboration, collective strategy, and technology-enhanced connectivity are needed. What do we know about emerging practices around network strategy, structure, governance, leadership, communication platforms, backbone organizations, etc.?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, let''s say you were hoping to sit down at the beginning of this year and map out a BIG plan for your life. Instead, they argue, the real source of productive creativity may lie in art''s supposed bugaboos: rules, structure, even the occasional editor or two." That book went on to become a best-seller."

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Solid books and numbers make everything easier, especially when you’re ready to go after grants. There are many other ways to structure the responsibilities of your first hire. The important thing is that you map out a plan and get Board buy-in. The founder drives the vision, the brand, and the messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Later, these questions were organized into categories so we had a concept map of issues people wanted to explore and these categories were also used in different activities. I wish I had done a structured creative thinking exercise to get people comfortable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. A handful of examples from just this past week: Al Gore and PushPopPress: Our Choice iPad App The White House: Excess Federal Properties Interactive Map New York Times: Osama bin Laden Reactions Interactive Texas Tribune: U.S.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Bill Gates said, "This is one of the best books written." "The funny thing that having Bill Gates say he loves your book. " He mentioned that the game Civilization 4 came out since the book as published.

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

This software features built-in wizards to help structure your presentation’s narrative and build libraries of standard graphics and slide elements (like logos and maps). The Product: Efficient Elements for presentations is a plugin for PowerPoint that helps organizations build more effective presentations.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I ask participants to share on an index card as part of a raffle for my book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Often a breakthrough is accelerated by a good book – for Food: The Omnivore’s Dilemma. It offers us a “Map” of how each story affects people and communities. It maps out our plans, our design, our work, the response, our redesign, our work, the response and the overall progress to crossing the Chasm . True change.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. If you want visitors to answer questions collaboratively, whether in real-time or in a distributed manner, make sure your question and answer structure clearly supports visitors building on each other's ideas.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Uprising Tide panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM - "Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements - Ready to put your tech community on the map? Let them show you how to create an organic net-roots movement that upends traditional power structures and galvanizes your community.". But it wasn't here to enterain, no.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

Then we use my signature asset mapping system that helps you identify both what your partners are looking for and what your assets are beyond your programming. And the thing I want to say is that this strategy, this whole strategy is called funder mapping. And the funder map is what leads you to figure out, “Okay.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

Then we use my signature asset mapping system that helps you identify both what your partners are looking for and what your assets are beyond your programming. And the thing I want to say is that this strategy, this whole strategy is called funder mapping. And the funder map is what leads you to figure out, “Okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If This was a topic for an entire book called " Crazy Busy." applications have changed the rules of online community. Also announced 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into. Also, it connects the dots with similar projects happening, so people can see where they are on the map.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. How does it work?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And so before their case for support was even dry, before they mapped out their gift tables, their leadership team was. . It’s just a structured approach walking you through and it’s not necessarily, you know, the where all be all. I’m a huge fan of the book “Essentialism.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Note that the proceeds from his book will benefit the Smile Train and Doctors Without Borders to assist in their efforts to make our world a better place. See Six Key Reports in this interview as possible alternative framework with integration of metric definitions and identify pages in book where the how-to is.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps. 2) The Functional Art : This is the title of a book by Alberto Cairo who also teaches infographics at the University of Miami. I’m looking forward to the book! (5) The book has a section about exploring data visually and the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. What do you track? 2) Crowd Creation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The first is our International Strategy Meetings, where we convene our founding women from 26 different countries, who come together and really examine what the local issues are, what are the global trends, what is the work that they can do in partnership, and they really map out their plan and their goals and their work for the coming year.

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