Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC.

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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. My slides are above and my reflections are below. When I tell people that they might see themselves in the slide show, there is always nervous giggle. Audience Feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Last week, I was honored to do the keynote workshop at the Peel Leadership Center’s TimeOut Conference in Toronto, Canada. This conference is an opportunity for executive directors to build skills in resilience as part of a day-long seminar. I learned this from ETR’s facilitator tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

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

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

MARCH 4, 2020

The list of conferences cancelled is growing, with some now being delivered a virtual gatherings. It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings.

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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. I often incorporate sticky notes and often have to rearrange the furniture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” ” As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. I just returned from doing Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshops at the National Summer Learning Association’s Conference in Indianapolis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I nominate #14ntctrain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

February 12, 2010, and promises to be “more than just a conference on the next generation web.&# Plus, if you register soon you can get a 20% discount! It’s a next generation conference in format. Ever attend a conference, for a keynote, and find the rest of the content to be wanting? NonProfit 2.0 Unconference here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Next week I will be speaking at and event Bebo is facilitating for members of Number 10 Downing St, local Councils, civic departments (police, etc.), I will also share my speech and slides next week after the event. Tags: case studies campaignbuilding campaigning casestudies conference uk youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. Sometimes I wish that I simply did the same slide show, talk, and workshop again and again and again. tags: nptech nonprofits ). I'm doing two workshops. I'd bore myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. Last year I audio-skyped into a conference in the UK to present with Steve Bridger. Tags: Conferences Tips Training Design ffog remote presentation skype twitter video. We had a very reliable Internet connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Last week, I was in Sao Paolo for the ABCR Festival, the leading conference in Brasil for fundraising for nonprofit organizations. I delivered a keynote for Social Good Brasil in 2012 and for a conference on volunteering hosted by Fundação Telefônica in 2014. This was my third visit to the country. The audience laughed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2005

I'm using web/phone conference software called "Ready/Talk" which (thank god) offers some interactive features, like chat and handing control of presentation to someone else's desktop. But the word backchannel also refers to the chat in a conference where there are people in the room chatting as well as remote participation.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

To facilitate nonprofit blogging, she recently laid out an awesome strategy for getting started. A recording of the presentation and the slides are available for free. If you missed the NYC Social Media for Nonprofits conference, don’t worry: Farra Trompeter of Big Duck posted her favorite takeaways from the speakers.

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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. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There are many benefits to this move but running a successful virtual conference requires more than just an understanding of video conferencing tools. . If this is your first time hosting a virtual conference or any virtual event for that matter, the process may seem daunting. A virtual audience will not have to do any of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Conference. (He even brought me some Tim-Tams.). When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

She was more than happy to share what her and her team learned about the planning and execution of a large virtual conference, and how you can apply these lessons to your nonprofit’s next event. The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. In fact, I have a " Remix This PowerPoint " presentation up on slide share right now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. In the why it is important section, I went through the social networking from birth to high school slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Today I presented on a “featured session” at the United Way Community Leaders Conference in Grapevine, Texas. The conference theme was “Working Together in the Era of the Individual.” Also, you’ll need plan out your training materials – fact sheets, tips sheets, and slide decks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! The slides and resources from the session can be found here. It also leads to better application of the information. During our session, colleague Susan Tenby stepped out for a conference call during the session.

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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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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There are many benefits to this move but running a successful virtual conference requires more than just an understanding of video conferencing tools. . If this is your first time hosting a virtual conference or any virtual event for that matter, the process may seem daunting. A virtual audience will not have to do any of this.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Before the event we used the Knowledge Garage to share document resources with participants, promote discussions and idea sharing, and to facilitate online connections so participants could better connect with each other when the Summit began. Make the event site a community rather than a conference program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field." It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session. Photo in flickr - Letting Go.

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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 Liz Lawley facilitated a session called "Social Software: Lens or Mirror" reported on by David Weinberger. Probably not quite as good as being there.

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