Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Weave reflection Into Meetings: Incorporate formalized reflection activities such as “ After Action Reviews ” for large projects and campaigns. Having a workplace flexibility policy can facilitate it. Share in the comments below.

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Here are practical tips on how to engage your aging donors and encourage planned gtiving. Additionally, they may have reached a point in their lives where they are reflecting on their legacy and the impact they want to leave behind. Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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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. Where do you get the time to put some of what you've learned into practice?

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! Reading these comments, I felt terrible. I am a member of the Technology of Participation network of facilitators. Currently, the best practice for a meeting with some complexity is to include a technology producer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. They meet for breakfast and do not have a formal agenda – they discuss areas of practice, including working as change agents inside and outside of their organizations. That is one reason why I always incorporate a reflection at the end that helps participates identify one small action step.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negative comment? Well, first you need a strategy and have a practice of listening in place. So, having a social media work flow allows your organization to identify, reflect, and be effective at participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. Leave in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically. One of the reflections. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? Some Learnings on Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content. 4.) Reflection: Reflection doesn’t have to be a huge amount of time to be effective. I’m taking ten minutes every morning to practice some visual recording skills like drawing to create my “3 Most Important Things for Today List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you. Harold Jarche (Click for Original Article). What does this mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. So, go join the conversation in the comments over at the Case Foundation blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. It's an opportunity for some reflection about what the story means. What are some the "best practices" and what are some of the pitfalls?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The team at GiveMN had a powerful learning experience that are showing below. In many cases, harsh criticism and frustration was diffused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Commenting on the posts in other aligned partner’s Facebook pages. My brand page for my blog has specific objectives and I mostly post practical and useful material about how to use social media effectively. Post content on my brand page as the page administrator, but comment through my personal profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix. Here’s a summary: There was a range of practice for using data and measurement to improve social media and demonstrate impact: Crawl.

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JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. 4. Give Them A Couple of Practical Tips or Insights To Solve Their Problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.". At the Packard Foundation our commitment to effectiveness directly plays out in our evaluation and learning culture and practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

I went to a morning session called " Digital Youth and Analogue Adults " facilitated by Garham Heartley which includes a panel of digital natives talking about what young employees should expect of their nonprofit employer as it relates to technology. Twitter Comment ). Twitter Comment ). Twitter Comment ).

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Putting that aside—thank goodness—allow me to share a few of the takeaways and best practices addressed in my whitepaper. Practice institutional self-reflection. There are three key components of institutional self-reflection: where have we been, where are we now, and where do we want to be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). How to Practice Good Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share. Share it in the comments. Social Media Policy: Building Good Judgement. Power of Staff As Champions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

That is a quote from co-panelist Matthew Dyer from the Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus who is commenting on the kind of people who should be social media managers. Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. It’s the conversations and depth of relationships that matter.

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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. And, following great curators in your topic area is a best practice as noted by Robin Good and part of distinguishes great curators. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify.

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JULY 8, 2021

What eLearning assessment best practices can strengthen your courses? Then, we’ll wrap up with a few best practices to take your assessments to the next level. Because scenarios are immersive, learners can practice the application of skills in a no-consequence environment. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

It would be hard to answer this as a comment of a blog post too or if someone was doing a quick poll. And beyond quick information exchange -- if you want a deeper reflective conversation, twitter is not the place to have it. A blog is great for more reflective practice. " Great question. I think it depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". It has to be authentic, reflect the CEO's personality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

1 : Blogging Community/Community Blog - Basic Definitions This post was my reflection after taking a fabulous online workshop with Nancy White that included a link to Steve Shu's post and a question about "Can Community Blogs be facilitated?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

The theme for the 2006 Circuit Rider Conference is Principles and Practice: The Middle Ground. They think of about the practices or outcomes first. And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0

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JUNE 24, 2013

These assignments call upon product knowledge of course, but also a great deal of facilitation training, including many practice teachbacks in front of the group. As you reflect upon the experience, what were the keys that you would repeat (or avoid)? Share them in the comments below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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