Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. How am I getting outside today?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Information is everything that is coming at us. However, to have data requires intention.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

The answer to that last question is almost certainly your website. Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. We’ll also provide you with some starter ideas and thought-provoking questions to spark your creativity and enhance your visuals and design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Much of this has to do with how people appreciate each other as well as building a sense of community, followed by activities and supporting policies in the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. You can also apply brain theory to designing and facilitating meetings at work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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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. Applying these techniques to social platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn for thought leadership, influence, and professional learning.

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TechImpact

APRIL 24, 2014

Public clouds, private clouds, controlled cloud, community cloud, hybrid cloud. There are a lot of hard questions that must be asked, however. Questions like: What potential security hazards does a BYOD policy present? These are all different options for cloud computing services that your nonprofit can take advantage of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? It is called “Rose, Bud, Thorn.”

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? Many of them were really driven by the community. In the end, it raised over $120,000 from 1500+ donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. They also have a robust online community. Staff were asked to use a technique called “ Rose, Bud, Thorn ” to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities for change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Guest Post By Bahia Ramos , director of community foundations at Knight Foundation. We also wanted to go deeper with the foundations in the communities where Knight Foundation invests.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Don't Automate All Your Facebook Posts Facebook actually treats posts from third-party apps differently, and they could be lost in your community's news feeds. Ask Questions Research also suggests that questions work best for increasing engagement. The London Symphony is a master of this technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results. Use “Fill In” Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC. Rob Cottingham.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run. Hearing from so many people. npsmpeer #sxsw. —

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Crisis communication strategy. Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Where can network weaving techniques help you unleash the abundance that networks offer. 3. Where are the gaps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). It covers human, organizational, and technical points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2005

I haven't been blogging much this month because I've been immersed in an online workshop on the topic of online facilitation with Nancy White at Full Circle. The workshop has provided a wealth of learning about practical techniques and theory of online community building as well as allowed some time for experimentation or action learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We did this on Day 1. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). Here's the blurb: Are you in, leading or interested in the development and support of communities of practice who want or need to use web based tools to connect and be together? If these questions intrigue you and you. Naava Frank, Knowledge Communities.

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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. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I learned that you can’t explain complex, wonky policy positions in 140 characters, but you could communicate or let people know the policy paper exists with a punchy statement and pointer to the paper. Spectragram. Living Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Since there was a strong sense of community and connection in the room, the spectragram discussion was really rich. I was part of a team that included.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

There are also VIP tickets available for Radical Impact that come with all session recordings and session notes, custom slides and speaker content, a bonus marketing strategy from Community Boost, additional CFRE credits, and (most importantly) a free t-shirt! How to Register: Registration for Good Tech Fest 2024 hasn’t opened yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. The question. From these questions, our national study, How Strong is Your Social Net?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback. Using unstructured qualitative data alone is pretty stupid unless you bring intelligence analysis, link to a quantitative analysis and link it back to decisions.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Takeaway Ask your loyal supporters (such as board members) to facilitate introductions to potential major donors, ensuring you get in touch and make the best first impression possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? She kindly answered all of the questions below: Q. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . It can serve as an anchor for additional conversations.

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