Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning. Here’s how they combined the videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. ” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. Rob started off with some observations about the young people he sees in his business school classes.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was just meeting some of these students, I was just setting the tone for class. It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. What do we do when technology (or the people using the technology) do something unexpected? And now the tone was…#TechFail! And guess what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes. Illustration by Beth Kanter. That’s the theory at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Effective learning that creates results and transfers to action over time starts with unleashing people’s existing knowledge – they need to pull forward pre-existing information. Connecting Up Master Class. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Perhaps you want a committee comprised solely of people with lived experience related to your nonprofit’s mission—i.e. people who have experienced houselessness or survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence. After all, general announcements may not reach the people and organizations that are important to your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. The practices are intended to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

I am very grateful to Valerio Melandri who is the director of the festival for inviting me to participate as well as facilitate a maser class on modern wellbeing based on my book. Now to recap some thoughts about what we presented and insights generated upon reflection. And, also to Marcele Iniarra for his creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Social Media Master Class. The overall goal was to provide participants with a combination of insights and practical tips to help them be effective. This face-to-face master class and mini-workshops will be followed with a smaller peer learning group that will meet regularly to compare notes as they put the ideas into practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2012

A couple weekends ago I facilitated a 3-hour Tea, Cupcakes and Creative Bloggers workshop at Teahouse Studio. Britt was an amazing teacher, and one of the greatest things about the class was all the incredible women that were there!" "The The class was great! Thanks again for the class yesterday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I decided to spend a little bit time reflecting on the diagram and pull out some tips for re-learning focus: 1.) Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your Time: Don’t just create a to do list, lay it out on daily and weekly schedule, breaking down key tasks of the project to chunks. Usually it is because I’m doing too much.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

As Salesforce celebrates 20 years in business, the Nimble AMS team reflects on the reasons why associations benefit from an AMS built on Salesforce. Fortune 500-class CRM for associations. Salesforce offers Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff. World-class reliability.

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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. YES YES YES YES YES @davegray “People don’t learn from spreadsheets, predictions, and plans, they learn from making things” #NeXConf. Geographic Location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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APRIL 16, 2021

The event gives passionate supporters a way to breathe and reflect. The organization’s unique approach fights against illegal wildlife trade by reducing demand for wildlife products with world-class communications campaigns. CELI also hosts an annual 5K Run for Clean Energy every spring to support their mission. Podcast: Broken Ground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bora Vuth, a young man from Cambodia who is attending college here in US, put his finger on it as he joined 136 other people on Facebook who donated to the Sharing Foundation. It makes you feel good to give and celebrate and be part of a network of people doing the same. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2010

Sometimes the connection is obvious: you have an eating disorder, so you decide to work with people with eating disorders. Regular activism oftentimes requires one set of people to be wrong, and another to be right; conscious activism comes from empathy. It's the opposite. Your wound is your gift.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Visualize On Paper: Over the past 10 months, I've made a return to paper and markers and using mind maps or visualization techniques to reflect, and plan my week or day. I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. Reflection: Reflection doesn't have to be a huge amount of time to be effective.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information." Today, millions of people are denied this basic human right because they are not literate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

We’ve all heard the term, had workshops and classes on it, gone to seminars, digested it— but why? These are the people who cannot only help you find jobs or partnerships, but can potentially recommend you to employers and connect you with donors. posted by Sentari Minor , Program Specialist, The Rodel Foundation of Arizona.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. People opted into the meetings where they had interest or expertise and ignored those where they didn''t.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Well, at least I started off the morning with some vigorous cardio exercise at the gym -- a killer spin class before I logged onto a conference call to talk about the NpTechTag issues with NpTechers today. I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

A growing number of states have prepared the ground for the creation of such enterprises by recognizing a new class of business entities. It donates the products to impoverished people, preventing millions of hygiene-related deaths each year and encouraging vigorous childhood development (Clean the World, 2015).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. Crowdsourcing View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Research / @SSIReview. The Corps Network National Conference.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

The secret to raising money for important programs without alienating members is to offer fundraisers that are valuable to the people who support them. So, how do you get people to participate in your fundraising efforts? Craft nights or classes. Painting classes are a popular activity for small groups of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Step 1: Find People. Hiring people. Openness - ????A

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So it’s for the people, by the people, is kind of the mantra here. . How do we do it in a way that feels inclusive, that people are heard, and that we can make decisions and not be overwhelmed by the process? I could practically teaching this class. ” That reflection is really important. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. But I spend most of my time as a trainer and a strategist as a coach and I help organizations and the people that lead them, just like you, grow your skills, your teams, and your results. What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Now, philanthropic psychology, in its simplest form, is the study of how people love humankind, or sometimes I say how people love people. People shouldn’t only be loving people. People should be loving animals and the planet too.” ” And I absolutely 100% wholeheartedly agree with you.

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