Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

When Whole Whale started our search for a DEI (Diversity Equity & Inclusion) consultant we weren’t sure where to start, which meant turning to Google. We facilitate workshops and trainings, coach and develop teams and leaders, and consult and support systems-level change.”. true north EDI. Website : [link]. She + Geeks Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The orientation included having one of the advisors, Kanika Raney from Google lead us in an icebreaker based on a workshop called #IamRemarkable , a Google initiative empowering women and underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond. Here’s how Kanika facilitated the exercise.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Or try additional experiential events like interactive workshops, virtual reality experiences, or access to behind-the-scenes activities. Engage on digital platforms: Use the technology younger donors favor—like QR codes or Tap to Pay —to facilitate easy capture of contact information and donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This week I was honored to facilitate a mini-workshop, “ The Happy Healthy Woman Leader, at the Women Funded 2019 conference in San Francisco. As part of the workshop, participants shared what their new personal resilience would be, how they would make it tiny and the trigger for doing it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. I just returned from doing Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshops at the National Summer Learning Association’s Conference in Indianapolis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. Photo by Gary Clark. The 2014 version – new and improved has arrived! You can download it here. How do I use it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” And I love facilitating, designing, and delivering workshops on this topic! See above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Europe and Latin America. Of course, greater dollars will help expand your mission’s depth and scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

She is regularly featured as a presenter at multiple chambers of commerce and local workshops and seminars on networking, event marketing, and sales training. Types of advertising can include a combination of any of the following: Social media marketing and news feed ads Search engine marketing ads (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.)

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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. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It will search hashtags or keywords and dump the data in a google spreadsheet. I used for anytime I teach a workshop or give a presentation. For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. Want something free or very low cost? RowFeeder fits the bill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

Mini-Workshop: Content Curation for Professional Learning. Wouldn’t those be better first steps toward facilitating effective group learning? ” In response, Eugene set up a Google Hangout to discuss the question of learning today at 12:30 PST. Accountability Buddies. .” Accountability Buddies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. In the presentation, I showed folks how to easily survey the audience using google forms. There were a lot of questions along the lines of "how much time does this take?" Why create a wiki for each workshop. look here ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Seattle, Washington: Facilitating Great Board Meetings. Naples, Florida: Google AdWords for Nonprofits — Successes and Failures. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Baltimore, Maryland: Google AdWords and Free Tech Help. Dublin, Ireland: Digital Street Mapping Workshop. Monday, May 8, 2017.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

We’ve all heard the term, had workshops and classes on it, gone to seminars, digested it— but why? People like to be connectors, they like to be of importance and they love to see their facilitation yield fruition. posted by Sentari Minor , Program Specialist, The Rodel Foundation of Arizona. Networking.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. What's it like to work in a virtual exhibit workshop? For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Social video includes the sharing of videos across networks and channels along with the rise of video meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions integrated with social media tools. Google Hangouts, Watchitoo, and Sliderocket. linked with other Google tools down the road (both endeavors are in. On July 20 at 10 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

My colleague Michelle Murrain discovered Frappr which allows anyone to put themselves on a map using Google APIs. It makes me think of the clock technique that Nancy White taught me during the recent online facilitator's workshop. She challenged her Nptech friends to think about how this might be used. Other ideas?

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. He is a William J. She is also a certified executive coach.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Getting Attention – Google Grants. Getting Attention: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Google Grants. Getting Attention is a nonprofit consulting firm that specializes in Google Grant acquisition and management. Getting Attention’s services include: Google Grant acquisition. Breakout session and workshop facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Techniques for More Engagement.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Learning is increasingly global and fluid and the fact that cross-institutional initiatives such as the Google Art Project and Europeana are rare, points to how much work still needs to be done. We wrote about that in a recent blog post, Why the Google Art Project is Important. But there are other content models we can explore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2008

Listening is a critical marketing practice and it just so happens that social media tools help facilitate listening. Here's an easy first project - set up an a google alert with your organization's name and/or url. Listening must become a priority in order to use the social media successfully. " What would be your response?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? RSS, Technorati, Google Alerts, etc). Some places I want to go. Strategy and Theory.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. delivering a workshop), compared to evaluating a larger-scale outcome (e.g. Google Analytics. changes in awareness or attitude) or tangible results (e.g. CSAE and ASAE.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It invites its super fans to join a private Facebook group, with useful information and a facilitated discussion. Use Google Analytics, email list analytics, and social media measurement tools to understand where you are getting the most traction and interest. Did they attend a workshop? theSkimm has an ambassador program.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Successful road trip stops might be happy hours, documentary screenings, panel discussions, organizing workshops, site visits, or volunteer trainings. Drawing national attention to an important issue (and a good bit of recognition for your organization the process).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

My work as a trainer and facilitator has brought me to many places in the world. Often, the training on-site is the beginning of project which includes facilitating sessions remotely across time zones. ” If helpful, you can also show other time zones on your Google Calendar by following these directions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Keywords are important, particularly in titles - if you want to show up in google. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian.

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