Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space? If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). This includes: presentations, handouts, and I typically create a wiki or online page for resources. Development.

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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

JULY 29, 2013

Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives. Nonprofits aren’t created the same; they can sometimes reflect the communities they serve and empower, facing similar resource and capacity challenges. I think he’d be proud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

In addition our participation at the conference, we got to discuss blogging while sharing a day of sightseeing in London. I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. One of the themes that bubbled up was the role of ambient data from social media channels and I agreed to lead a discussion on: How useful is this data for foundations? We discussed some of the social media monitoring tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. If I was in a room, live, I would have facilitated a brief conversation about the themes and interjected the themes into conversation - and then summarized them succintly with the slides. Full of copyright issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

Yesterday, I facilitated a session called Mapping Social Media to Strategy. All this will be shared through a lively mix of discussion and case studies. The discussion was fantastic. Mapping Metrics to Strategy View more presentations from kanter. Takeaways: 1. Didn't have the right Oprah set up for the mic, but it worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. 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. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

The videobloggers were using it on their wiki. I'm connecting it to the questions that came up on yesterday's Community Squared telephone conference to discuss tagging communities and got onto the topic of how online communities are changing given Web2.0. The metaphor is a web walkie talkie.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Bringing democracy and policy deliberations directly to the people by requiring his Cabinet officials to have periodic national online town hall meetings to answer questions and discuss issues before their agencies. There will be a lot of interesting discussions and developments in the coming months. That's pretty wide participation.

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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. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Think about some of the changes reflected by this typewriter, manufactured by E. The adoption of the typewriter, at just the same time that women began to work in offices, reflected changes in women's roles, new ideas about the organization of work, and the rapidly growing corporations of the day. Remington & Sons around 1875.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

I'm just back from the red eye and really tired - and wanted to capture a few reflections about network effectiveness and resourcing. Much of my connection has been facilitated by online technology so it was great to participate - finally - face-to-face. One of the things we discussed was were strategies for resourcing the World Cafe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively. Conduct an Organizational Audit.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. After a very successful three days I had some time to reflect about what made this technology initiative such a success. Knowing your audience: what they want to get out of the online portion of the event (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. On the long plane ride back to the mainland, reflected on what work and what didn't in Hawaii. I set up a wiki. tags: nptech nonprofits ). I'm doing two workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. ll do some live demos of these tools, discuss their potential to enhance our work, along with some of the concerns they raise. And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. These were transcribed and added to the wiki — and now have participants working on incorporating Twitter into the mix. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Think about those 4th grade science experiments where huddled over your experiment you all learn together. The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Can blog communities be facilitated? What are the similarities and differences between online discussion boards and blog communities? My participation in an online discussion at. Or maybe that in itself reflects an underestimation or misperception of blogs by nonprofits. I dunno, I'll have to think about this more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Openness - ????A

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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." So, armed with an improvised mobile wireless mic, I used an Oprah style facilitation. Get to the room early and rearrange the furniture to accommodate better moving around during the discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise. My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. No wonder I am still tired!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. They were roped to very specific locations and activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Some people in the room were frustrated because the discussion focused on social media for charity and did not include social media for social change. Nonetheless, in reflection, I wonder: Is it time to stop using the phrase "social media for social good" when we're talking about the use of social media for charity?

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