Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Note From Beth: Having good openers (and closers) are essential to the success of your training workshop. Last week, Janice from Exponent Philanthropy and I led a conference session called Facilitation: Tools of the Trade. Group selfie ice breakers in our facilitation meeting! Icebreakers Can Be Fun! Guest Post by Jen Bokoff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages. I think this is still important for even a smaller group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Why or why not?

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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. This was the first 90 minutes of the workshop, and while content and interaction kept in active learning mode — the next step was a synthesis.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Click the session title if you’d like to leave a comment. If you want to leave feedback or comments about the sessions I am a part of, please do! Workshop: Using Community Organizing for Effective Online Campaigns. We invite both individual activists and staffers in organizations to take part in this workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I presented a workshop at the Bay Area Video Coalition Nonprofit Institution. The nonprofits in this workshop, for the most part, deliver programs and services that address sensitive topics. You moderate comments or leave it open. I'm not referring to comment spam , either. Why or why not?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything). Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Providing educational materials, workshops, or seminars on estate planning and the benefits of making a planned gift, in person and via online video, is crucial. Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans. Please share in the comments section below. Find out how!

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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. If you know of a place that might like to host a TCCB gathering/workshop in the Bay Area and beyond, let me know in the comments, or email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. Thanks again for the class yesterday.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. What motivated you to participate in this workshop about Third Generation Nonprofit-Business Relationships?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. Please share your experience and additional hook ideas in the comments section below. Photo by Gary Clark.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Another great opportunity you have with a blog is opening up your organization by allowing comments and dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. Add your comments below. Flickr Photo by Toddy. and a Digital Strategist at PwC in Austin, Texas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. It can be “transparent&# so others can peer or browse or can be open and others contribute or comment. How do you do this? How do create an environment where it is okay to learn in public? It’s open or public document.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. Each of the speakers had their photo on black and white silk screen in the area outside the main room and participants could leave you notes and comments. The description: The !deation My slides are here.

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JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Workshops, ideation sessions, and other conversations with stakeholders are how we draw out, understand, systemize, and ultimately incorporate the heart and soul of any organization or effort into a strategy or tool. Facilitation. When facilitating the session, keep your role in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Last week I facilitated a workshop at the Kellogg Action Lab's College of Consultants Convening. I wish I could have attended the other workshops that were taking place at the same time as mine - from David La Piana on Strategic Planning and Dione Alexander from the Nonprofit Finance Fund. tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The authors were kind enough to give me a copy to give away on this blog, so if you leave a comment you could be the lucky winner of a book! I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. More about the book here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Techniques for More Engagement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2008

You can email me your career questions, I'll do my best to answer them, and I hope other Have Fun * Do Good readers will chime in with their tips and advice in the post's comments as well. Now I work with people on-one-one, and facilitate workshops, like the one I did for Stanford's Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area Spring Break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

It was a lot of fun, and since Andy was doing an excellent job of facilitating, and Amy was mentoring the groups, I was able to capture proceedings on video. Either way, if you find this interesting, do drop a comment or question below. The task was to choose cards totalling only 10 points from each pack. Social by Social game cards.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. First, if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, please enjoy (and comment on, if you wish), this explanation (requires speakers). What's it like to work in a virtual exhibit workshop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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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. I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Additionally, over the past 2 years, Teddy and I were very lucky to work with other SF Arts organizations in the “Leveraging Social Media” (LSM) workshop series. 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.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

Workshops will be interactive, 3-hour long, hands-on learning opportunities with tangible outcomes. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts and ideas in the comments, below! Share them in the comments below. The new structure will cut down on noise and allow for more interactive networking and socializing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. The Conversation Graph Has Gotten More Complex. It is very easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. The program includes two face-to-face workshops. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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