Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

I stayed the weekend to travel to Toronto, to give a keynote on Monday morning at the My Charity Connects Conference. The conference had fast and reliable wifi and many had their laptops opened and were tweeting before the conference started – so I encouraged using Twitter as a back channel. Audience Feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

If you are choosing to do Simulated Live , you will need to make sure that the video is being shot with enough time to upload to the virtual event platform to be used for a digital webinar, hybrid conference, summit, or meeting. . Well, yes, it may seem surprising but your hybrid event needs to facilitate networking opportunities !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3 Yesterday, I gave a breakfast keynote at the National Head Start Association Conference and as I walking into the convention center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Bridge Conference Slides View more presentations from kanter. I had an opportunity to lead a session on this topic at this years Bridge Conference. In reading the Twitter hashtag stream for the conference, it was interesting to see that someone else who wasn't in the room or on the webinar, was also able to follow on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday? Our work days are filled with meetings and conference calls with the intent of getting stuff done. What Research Says About Productive Meetings and Conference Calls. Many of our meetings take place on conference calls. A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

Computer or laptop. Here are a few tips to follow to facilitate a smooth recording session: Warm up. Samantha is the co-author of “Planning a Successful Major Donor Event” and the founder of the annual Elevate fundraising event conference. It’s unlikely that you’ll get the entire podcast episode down without any mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. For those of us who have been attending blogging and tech conferences, the backchannel is not new. How can we use back-channels as a progressive force at conferences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Last year I audio-skyped into a conference in the UK to present with Steve Bridger. For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked. We had a very reliable Internet connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It challenge for the NTC Conference! and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. If you want to get everyone in your office on board, use the app Fi.tt

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices? Conferences: Small or large sessions at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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 are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. ”So, when you really need to get something done, get away from your computer and your conference room, and go for a long walk. Conferences: Small or large sessions at conferences.

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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. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

We all have lived through that awful conference call or equally horrendous in person meeting. Andrea gave an awesome presentation with some great frameworks and tips on planning and facilitating productive meetings to avoid death by meeting. She started off with some statistics that the average professional attends 13.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Chris Sacca quipped that he usually attends technology conference where most people in the audience are buried in their smart phones or laptops and that this conference was the one where felt the mostly everyone was paying attention to him. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

If you want to find out more about the conference, read the tagged blog posts from the conference here and the nonprofit technology spin here. (Be David Weinberger hosed his laptop and apparently after cursing on his blog and breaking the "shit" and "fuck" barrier face-to-face in the room ( !

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. But what's even better is that this wasn't an isolated training, it was part of an new online community called Engage365 which runs on a platform called " Conference 2.0 ". It has 400 members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. 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. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. This was circa 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement. We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

We're going to be on a conference call and a meebo chat for member questions. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I tried to apply all that I learned about facilitating online conversations, connecting, and networking to blogging. My first steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

Taran, whose back problems kept him in bed on painkillers with his laptop, was also there and has written a great report on his explorations.). I've facilitated and participated in many online meetings - using various tools (phone, chat, whiteboards, etc.) and so I volunteered to take notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. Some Cambodians may have more than one phone as Borin explains here Borin also writes about how he uses his mobile phone with his laptop to get online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

My work as a trainer and facilitator has brought me to many places in the world. Often, the training on-site is the beginning of project which includes facilitating sessions remotely across time zones. I keep my laptop on my home timezone and always set meetings up using my home base timezone.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

TechSoup's staff also uses it to facilitate philanthropic support to tens of thousands of nonprofits, from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma to the Tax Busters in Serbia. Helpful recording features such as the option to save recordings of video conferences on your laptop, without requiring the expense of cloud storage fees.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

TechSoup's staff also uses it to facilitate philanthropic support to tens of thousands of nonprofits, from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma to the Tax Busters in Serbia. Helpful recording features such as the option to save recordings of video conferences on your laptop, without requiring the expense of cloud storage fees.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. I only have my laptop and my notebook with me, so all I need is an outlet and the wifi password to get to work. Getting Started.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Operations & Leadership Google Ads for Nonprofits: 12 Expert Tips for Managing Your Campaigns 24 min read Read Now Online Donation Form Strategies donation form best practice: a section where you can write an appeal to donation page visitors Your online donation form is the key player when it comes to facilitating online donations.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So it’s like, dang, she’s a, you know, AFP master trainer and is super involved in other conferences. And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. And then laptop because, you know, work, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. That's rare in a conference setting. conference in 2010.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

a conference). We used a wiki to document all of the sessions so that after the conference, participants (and people who weren't able to come) could access the notes from session they missed. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. The wiki has to be the best tool for the job.

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