Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. .” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The skills are out there. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques. Each table had some markers and flip chart paper (“table cloths”) so participants could take notes. Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Whether the debate surrounds a keyword, organization or issue, understanding the dialogue can help you engage the people driving the conversation. is a guide written nonprofits that shares some techniques you can put to use right away and help your organization engage in the right place at the right time. Your People Are Talking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. This another area of Steve's interest and expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. I’ve written about these techniques here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. 4) There isn't a place inside of the virtual world where you can easily post the agenda and I haven't found a virtual flip chart yet. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. Bruce Lesley lead a session on the Children’s Issues editorial calendar. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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MAY 12, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Using video explanations of even simple charts and graphs can help site visitors quickly get the big picture - and arms them with an understanding of the data that lets explore and discover more confidently on their.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 3, 2011

I’ll start off with the basics, but then we’ll get into some advanced techniques. Perhaps your website has display issues in Internet Explorer 6 and you are wondering if you should fix your site or if people have finally migrated off that browser to IE 7 or 8. which means 3.74% of your visitors are on IE6).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s in our org charts. But digital technologies have transformed these techniques in amazing ways. When they engage on an issue or interact with a nonprofit, it will happen more often than not on a mobile device. Can you read a chart? This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). I am also experimenting with techniques for network weaving across platforms and curating content related to effective practice of networked nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". Click to see larger diagram.

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Forum One

MAY 30, 2024

Techniques that Create Credibility Clarity, authenticity, and inclusivity are essential for communicating trust effectively. Here are some techniques that we like to use: Feedback Loops Designing feedback mechanisms encourages open communication with audiences. And are you paying attention to all the right cues?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The tools and techniques that worked for us when we were seven people in a room don't work for twenty. I could stand up in the office, announce a meeting, lead a discussion on an issue, and we could head in a new direction immediately. There's an org chart. Now, our staff is three times the size it was five years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Unique Blog Readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. Some tables got very focused on some philosophical issues related to goals and stuck. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed. What lies beneath this? Observations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. Full of copyright issues. Someone said, "Extension work is research based, how do you incorporate this technique?" This was circa 1997. I arrived two hours early. What did I do? Interactive.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school. Grossman recommends that when you have something you want to get your employees input on, post a question on a flip chart in your department or office.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Mexico / SOLD OUT. 11/17/2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). What do the experts say? I found this video interview of Robert Scoble with Howard Rheingold about Scoble’s curation techniques and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

We discussed how social media analytics can provide some great information on your existing social media followers, but at the same time, there are gaps that need to be filled through other techniques. Please Retweet! Look at the friendly, smart and sexy people at #smdata panel! sxsw pic.twitter.com/VTGXGnD1Ww. The room was packed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

The process of creating a social media policy includes discussion about the issues, reviewing policies from other organizations , and reviewing and approving the policy internally. Jo Johnson over at the London Symphony is a master of this technique. They understand that trust is cheaper than control. How many by when?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 7, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 21, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 17, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 25, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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