Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Digital disruption : The rise of digital platforms and online advertising has disrupted traditional revenue models for local news, making it difficult for many outlets to adapt. Nonprofits are being asked to address these challenges and find sustainable models for local journalism.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

Personal And Organizational Productivity AI excels in structuring documents where the content is noncontroversial and exists all over the Internet. Wrangling Data With AI While content creation often dominates discussions about generative AI, diverse AI tools can aid in data organization. Do you need a product manager job description?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of “modeling the model,” so we wanted to use and model best practices for designing effective meetings on their preferred platforms. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out. Design must comes first.

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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. Even harder to incorporate “going meta.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

I asked fans on Facebook, “Does your organization use an editorial calendar and “editorial meetings” to get ideas and manage content for a content strategy?” So we want to make sure that we getting conversions from our content — which, depending on the content type, is a variety of next actions.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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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. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. Content Curation Primer. I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it Content Curation on Twitter.

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Social Media Training Train Network 97

M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

Running large Zoom calls for all volunteers to help deepen their understanding about abortion stigma, get skills-based training to become better storytellers or host teach-ins on their own, learn how to lobby, and participate in phone banks that support states at the local level to stop anti-abortion legislation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Developed by ETR in 2014, this is a research-based approach for designing and delivering skill-building trainings. Now, our staff retreat was not actually intended as a skill building training. They wanted to strengthen connections with ETR’s Health Equity Framework, an evolving model that is essential to all of the work we do.

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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

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod.

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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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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry. We see it all the time in this modern internet age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be doing a session designing and delivering effective training with John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard on March 14th at 10:30 am. And, if that wasn’t enough, will do a mini-workshop on using content curation for professional learning. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Conference: March 12-15th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. How do you make your trainings or meeting more fun that can lead to more learning?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? Don’t make attention training so rigid that it destroys flow.

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Use your CRM to send personalized marketing content to each segment that’s relevant to their interests to encourage further engagement. Unfortunately, many software providers try to hide fees related to implementation and training. Ask about training resources for the solution. Does this implementation cost extra?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Social media content mirrors other channels. Training Design. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change. Communications have more impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As part ongoing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am designing, facilitating, and delivering workshops with Compasspoint. Last week, I had the great pleasure of presenting a one-day workshop with colleagues Holly Minch , JD Lasica , Janet Fouts , and Susan Tenby. Masters of relationship marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. Vi was unapologetically personal about her own relationship to the content on display.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke.

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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. The model works well because it helps organization identify incremental improvements and build their capacity. What’s needed for improvement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

I’m also trying to shift my own practice into more design and train the trainers and coach the coaches versus direct delivery. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. It’s hard because you have to be very disciplined about noticing and documenting your practice.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Our objective is to create a company that includes the kind of robust diversity that facilitates the best productivity, problem solving, and innovation coming from people bringing a variety of perspectives to bear on our challenges and opportunities. If we want an inclusive company, leaders to have to lead inclusive teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. Leadership isn’t open. NGOS that work like fortresses.

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