Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. This is where content that breaks down the practice into small steps is very useful to participants. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Facilitator Guide: [link]. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. If you do training, how do you continuously improve what you are doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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JULY 20, 2021

Tackling Social Justice Issues on Diversity and Inclusion : Interview with Michael Moore, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Blackbaud. So, in that spirit, we’re providing a round-up of short readings, resources and tools that may help you as you consider different facets of the “social” element of ESG.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the internet saturated with different content and experiences, how can you ensure that your own volunteer opportunities reach the right people and inspire them to participate? For some of your opportunities, you might need to interview or screen a volunteer before they can participate. Take your training online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community – and special surprise guests who will join us via video. The Benefits of Content Curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. Don’t make attention training so rigid that it destroys flow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Social media content mirrors other channels. Training Design. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. For example, I asked the runners to line up from “just bought my nikes&# to “training for my third 30 mile marathon.&#. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke. Movement can really help.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Hire a Community/Content Manager! Every collaboration or content management site needs one.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

A consultant can create a roadmap to reach your goals from your eLearning pricing strategy, to the content you’ll provide, to how you’ll market those offerings. Creating a content development strategy. Creating a content development strategy. You don’t know what types of training would be most beneficial for your members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. We did this on Day 1.

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JULY 14, 2021

The Classy team created engaging content that Collaborative participants could use in their professional lives. “ Zoom fatigue is real, so it’s important when creating a virtual fundraising event to be mindful of duration and timing, as well as ensuring that all content offered within your event provides value and actionable takeaways.

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Gyrus

JUNE 23, 2016

What sort of content are the learners expecting? An analysis through an in-depth survey accompanied by a few short one-on-one interviews with the projected user base and decision makers within the organization can aid tremendously. Other than different software, it is very important to know how your learners will access the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. The model balances content, learning design, and participants.

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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. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. Providing staff training is essential. The content was on all channels, not just social media. Senior leadership suggested linking results to staff job performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. 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. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

What sort of content are the learners expecting? An analysis through an in-depth survey accompanied by a few short one-on-one interviews with the projected user base and decision makers within the organization can aid tremendously. Other than different software, it is very important to know how your learners will access the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

So, I interviewed Iavor Ivanov, United Way's director of Web Experience to learn more about their approach. It doesn't stop at integrating social media into the external communications plan for the national entity, but includes training and support for local united ways to implement a social media strategy in their local communities.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Pricing Strategy for Training Courses: Subscription vs. One-Time Fee. Pricing Strategy for Training Courses: Subscription vs. One-Time-Fee. Because of that, it’s also better suited for simpler content, such as webinars, rather than comprehensive, complex courses. 5 eLearning Pricing Models for Your Courses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

We've provided training on how to interview subjects, tips for photographing and video-recording, as well as best practices for writing strong stories that encourage and elicit action. Let's face it, this content doesn't come out of thin air. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action. From @pelleaardema: thinking out loud: content creators/organizers, a positive spirit (definitely needed), guide/leader… and i guess some positive criticism can help as well.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

TechSoup involves online volunteers as subject matter experts, moderators, and facilitators for our community forum. That means there's no application to fill out, no interview, no training, no long-term commitment. We developed a web page describing the program , which involved drafting, discussing, and finalizing content.

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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. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations. I revised a lot of the content to match the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I think that of advocates need to have open source technology stewards behind them to be successful -- there is a need for stewards to guide the choices, training, translators -- to help nonprofits adopt open source software. I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! or similar) licensing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As someone interviewing for a top job, how can you detect warning signs of organizational system decay *before* your professional credibility is on the line? Are there plans to train someone on this common function? It doesn’t have to be a “buyer beware” situation, after all. The Seven Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

I had the pleasure of interviewing her. I've also worked in the gaming industry and done a fair amount of technical training on large e-commerce and content management systems. Most people don't always understand how a piece of software that facilitates conversations can change the world. to October 15th at 6:00 p.m.

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