Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

I decided to go offline and take a break from blogging, pinning, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest. ” Others offered some good practical advice: Post an unusual (but relevant) photo. But in the quiet and last days of 2012 and the reflective moments in the new year, it was time to face the new year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Edutopia , a project of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is an online web site that creates and curates content that is distributed through mobile, social media, video, and offline channels. They also have a robust online community. The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education. Metrics for Movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Practical frameworks and guidelines for effectively developing an integrated content strategy and measurement practice. Best practices for effective use of common social media tools: Facebook and Twitter. Next, participants did a self-assessment, using the maturity of practice model ( Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. 8: Practice empathy for the other person.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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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

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). If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices.

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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. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Community manager members were invited to ask their most pressing questions and share their best practices. The talk, facilitated by online community veteran Scott Moore , delved into various facets of online community. Provide content: Seed conversations to get others more comfortable speaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

How to put network weaving into daily practice? I’ve been having this conversation with several groups lately, Network of Networked Funders and Network Weaving Sandbox , comprised of individual who are intentionally approaching their work with a network mindset. These can be done offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. So, I use the term social media to encompass all the tools and all the practices that are described by the terms I mentioned above. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Ask them to comment on a recent conversation (list links to a few recent ones). Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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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. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. What needs are you trying to fulfill for yourself online that could be better met offline?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

From tracking conversations and donations to event registrations, you can note every interaction you have with a supporter in your nonprofit CRM. Here are some questions you may consider asking: Is this software available offline? 7 Best Practices for Effective Donor Management. How often is the software updated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. Today, we had an amazing conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Trust me. What are they good for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities. I asked if there were a set of best practices or design principles in facilitating blog communities. Steve has shared his learnings on facilitating a blog community. Steve posted a comment with some tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Roshi Joan Halifax pointed out that there are two types of attention: receptive and focused - to explain the difference between being on Twitter which she called a "Karma accelerator" and meditation which she practices daily. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Any practical tips or suggestions in setting up and doing this tracking? As much as possible, we’re trying to move these forward, and we’re also hoping to take the Blue Key campaign offline via tweetups organized by Champions. Note from Beth: Last May, USA for UNHCR launched The Blue Key campaign as a way for U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement. When facilitator says go, everyone moves so that they are always equidistant between those two people who they chose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. I also like to practice my storytelling skills. And, while I practice before I present, many times - I have some parts that are new. Some strategies for offline/online engagement were discussed. What worked? What didn't?

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

But with so many elements to modern fundraising—both online and offline—it can be tough to keep up. That’s why we’re starting with the basics and sharing nonprofit best practices that cover the most important elements of your fundraising strategy. Many nonprofits start out by tracking donors in an Excel spreadsheet.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And I’m going to tell you how to get them to do it and what the conversation should be about as we go through this because I think a lot of times a lot of people focus in on asking and that is not what it’s about. And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? That’s how we facilitate it. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice? Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. There are offline ways to do it. Does the post relate to the blog's goal, voice, and conversational voice.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

With so many options available, online and offline, it’s time to go beyond the tried-and-true fundraising fundamentals. . Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. I realized that this is a year that calls for greater specificity.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. Let’s keep the conversation going. I’m jelly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Everyone else must work harder to spark a true grassroots movement (online or offline) and realize the results that the technology world, including Causes, have promised through their platforms. The successful causes on Causes seem to start out well known, or bring in a high profile or strong brand. Let’s review: Its not about the technology.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. I could practically teaching this class. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. Move aside, Julie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

You can find the description and bios here and if you want to the video of the whole session, you can find it here. The conversation was non-linear, insightful, and allowed for debate on different points of view from the panelists. What can people in this room put into practice in the next week or year to be more innovative?

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