Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

In the spirit of TechSoup's new look , we've compiled a list of resources and products from around our global network on website design, planning, and management. Design and Multimedia. A well-designed website doesn't require a large budget and a professional design team.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Key Questions: The session was designed to be a conversation – with an avid note taker (me). There’s a drupal/civicrm system in place and a community space that was a beta trial (that is closing down), plus knowledge/experience on the team of using tools like facebook, twitter and wiki platforms.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

and Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Please join us online on September 13th, 10am Pacific for our NTEN Webinar, The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function to look at additional examples of sites getting social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. he said, they need to persuade thousands of employees to begin blogging and creating wikis all at once. ve had this ???need

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I've volunteered to be a session designer for two (yikes!) I've created a wikitation site (presentation as wiki) to house the presentation materials and for some basic primers/factsheets I hope to write. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3 No, I probably won't do my Julia Child imitation.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage. Training Design'

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2010

There’s some programming already in place but it’s an event designed to move and mold with those in the room. Here’s the OxfordJam wiki. And they’re hoping to have some great minds there as the fringe event to Skoll. I’ll be there all day Friday helping with the social media sessions. Follow along!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

Zoetica designed and is delivering the six-month program for Theatre Bay Area , with support from the Wallace Foundation, Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation and the Koret Foundation. Andrew Pulkrabek, the marketing director, worked with a designer. Why: Custom Landing Tabs. The Techy Stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. When I design a training, whether a one-hour webinar or an all-day face-to-face workshop, I don't begin with the technology integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I'm presenting on a few panels, coordinating the Day of Service (have done this since 2002 as a paid consultant), and designing a panel on Social Media and ROI. I'll include on a handout or wiki). " I can't believe NTC is two months away. Any specific examples, case studies, or useful resources to share?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

What: The art of social instructional design. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. I think you can design around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. If you design and deliver training for professional development, what technologies are impacting your practice? Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Matthew Scharpnick, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Elefint Designs will be on hand to answer questions and share data visualization tips. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. How to Participate. Please visit the site to view this video). About Matthew Scharpnick.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

The tweet chat is designed to spark an international conversation, spanning multiple time zones. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. To keep this exciting conversation going, we are also producing a tweet chat on Thursday, June 21 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time / 6:00 p.m.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Bottom line: They are both such amazing, solid platforms, with rich, deep ecosystems of plug-in/module developers, implementors, designers, etc. Community Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. It never ceases to amaze how the set up of the room influences how we learn and how important that is to consider it in your design. Fluency in social media skills.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

To design a technology model that could address the spectrum of skill in the network would be a challenge. We were also introduced to this really cool guy, John Kenyon (you might have heard of him), who helped us solve our problem with one word: wiki. The TLI wiki is enabling us to meet all of our goals. Fast forward to Jan.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Canada, and Puerto Rico that are directly using design to create a better world. Autodesk Building Design Suite Premium – This is 3D building design software for simulations, architectural drawing, contractors, structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers. million investment in the nonprofit design sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Crowdsourcing is a killer business model, effectively stitching the market research process into the very design of products, minimizing overhead costs, and speeding up the creative phase of problem solving and design. Nitrogen Wiki . Next Stop Design Process. Crowdsourcing the Genome .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. Mobile websites must be designed to be easily read on mobile devices. is one person or organization pushing content out to many people via websites and e-mail newsletters. The donation process is not interactive or public. You donate and then receive a “Thank You” email.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Documentation of the Visioning Process. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

A Selection of Strategic Game Design Lessons for Nonprofits. Design Process. Determine the technology platform after designing for audience, context, and impact goals. (MB). How to Design. To try your hand at game design, try the Grow a Game Cards. (BS). Nonprofits Live! Game Audiences. community. (BJ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Source: Nonprofit Next Report form David LaPiana Last week we invited people to help us crowd source a Hollywood Ending for the WeAreMedia Wiki. Add them to the WeAreMedia wiki here. Have some thoughts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. are designing their delivery methods… something to think about. These sections are: . Strategic Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Stewart Mader of WikiPatterns is running a series 21 Days to Wiki Adoption, a series of video blog posts. This series is based on his recent book , WikiPatterns, which is a must-have if you're considering a wiki project. Has your organization launched a social media proof of concept pilot for any social media tool - wikis included.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. Link up with designers, developers and other likeminded social activists to get your project off the ground. This post breaks it down for you and lists examples of different types of hackathons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

So, I designed and have been testing a training program that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a peer learning process for sharing the learning. The best part of this design is that participants are the content – the community is the curriculum! Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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