Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Write a target audience definition. Then it was time for a simple exercise.

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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. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been designing curriculum and materials and facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. It’s a pilot project supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2016

” Author Michael Michalko created the “ Think Pack ” to accompany his book on creativity techniques, Thinker Toys. My definition of a good solution would be when LinkedIn uses airplanes in order to connect start ups & small businesses to successful refugee entrepreneurs. thanks, @AllieB!).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Instead of ensuring the success of a country, our focus is strictly on programs and the utilization of proven techniques. But the reminders definitely help. This will not only further facilitate learner engagement but also bring attention to learning efforts.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Social media is a prominent social gathering place where these goals can definitely be met. One organization had particular success using Twitter to facilitate its state policy work. Are there any tools or techniques in particular that have helped you find or contribute to the conversations taking place across the web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network. I feel strongly that the new definition of a social media expert is someone who has a smart network. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Here’s what I learned: Definition: A culture of continuous improvement. Data visualization techniques are used not only to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. It’s on the agenda at Do Good Data Conference later this month (I’m co-facilitating the ending plenary).

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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. Let’s start with a definition first. The new social economy includes all the ways we use our private resources to create social good.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

My contribution to the list was not to focus on vendors, but to point to a wonderful document that I helped write with Nancy White, John Smith, and others about facilitation techniques for phone conference calls. I'll leave it to Idealware or TechSoup to write the definite comparison and maybe they'll link to this post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

1 : Blogging Community/Community Blog - Basic Definitions This post was my reflection after taking a fabulous online workshop with Nancy White that included a link to Steve Shu's post and a question about "Can Community Blogs be facilitated?" It covers human, organizational, and technical points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

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. There are definitely some shades of gray. It isn't black and white. The network needs to conduct self-evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

I facilitated a session on working in the nonprofit sector, with colleague Liz Perry , who is a sketch blogger and works an instructional technology specialist in a nonprofit school. If I lived in the Bay Area, I would definitely work with her as coach. Julia French, Covered Communication. Susan Mernitt , Yahoo. Laurie Rae.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. I definitely anticipate further modifications to both the online and on-site versions as we explore different ideas and gather feedback accordingly.

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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. BTW, she says that I " dropped science " but she means the 1st definition, not the fourth! (BTW,

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The first training I went to was on Public Narrative, led by master facilitator Sarah El-Raheb. Public Narrative is an activist storytelling technique for rallying others to your cause. It was intense, extremely well-facilitated, and meaty. The content is highly targeted, the facilitation strong. It was incredible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

One of the participants was an organization named GroundSpark which has a project called "Respect for All," that facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator. The information gathered is typically summarized into a collective judgment or perspective – the “wisdom” expressed by the crowd. Most leaders, executives and senior managers have been steeped in industrial-era management science assumptions. Change agent who's been around many blocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The configuration of the physical space definitely enhances learning. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. The scenarios clearly outline the social media objective and audience definition.

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MARCH 3, 2011

These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. Two years later, while I still appreciate the very real operational limitations of most institutions with regard to facilitation, I now believe that it's often essential to success. Why did this happen?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

These arrangements are starting-off points; they don’t originate from any definitive recording or performance. The music he listened to on the radio "got its power" from studio techniques. Level the playing field for participants of diverse backgrounds. Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

1) Already Doing It, Want To Do It Better: The first group know the definitions of the tools and understands how social media has changed the dynamics between audience and organization. " This reminded of the Thiagi's Interactive Lecture techniques. They've done some amount of experimentation.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. In terms of frontend elements that you may want to add in order to give users (specifically donors) a more engaging experience, we definitely recommend DIY peer-to-peer fundraising tools. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

One might think that it would be difficult to sustain a truly interactive experience, but the way Ethan and Rebecca facilitated - it was an intense day-long conversation. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. The Summit was a full-day session with all 80 or so people in the same room.

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JULY 1, 2009

Following Ari, would-be topic facilitators stepped up to suggest a session they wanted to facilitate. Deviant, actually showed us the technique to pick physical locks. s boondoggle in the nineties that made public people?s s personal earnings benefits statement still affect how some organizations adopt online tools.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Your finances are one area of your operations where you definitely don’t want to leave things up to chance. Effectively targeting corporate philanthropy programs requires dedicated strategy, tools, and relationship-building techniques. Breakout session and workshop facilitation. Panel discussion and interview facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. Design for complexity, communicate for simplicity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

What is your (simple) definition of social marketing? Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? Outside of blogs, I think that anything that facilitates word of mouth can be very effective. Unfortunately, the term ???social

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. Crowdsourcing View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Fundraising. Create Good 2016.

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JULY 17, 2021

So definitely, if we had more time, I would jump into that a little bit more, but I want to just leave you with that top line thought. Definitely working on a hold on my power. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. Look at the comments.

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