ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

Model 53

Model Fund Social United States 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. Are there differences in models by field / industry/ place?

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? Lately, I have been working in far flung places which means long, very long airplane rides without Internet access!

Online 128

Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

Learning 102

Learning Network Organization Classroom 102

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. We see it all the time in this modern internet age.

Industry 74

Industry Learning Environment Training 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

Morocco 100

Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another. Why am I excited about this project?

Social Media 102

Social Media Learning Community Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

Share 102

Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. We did this on Day 1.

Pakistan 111

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

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. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

Maslow 98

Maslow Yemen Artist Arts 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. This book will help.

Skills 105

Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

Nptech 100

Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan.

Jordan 126

Jordan Saudi Arabia Morocco Lebanon 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? There is major emphasis on what is possible when ingenuity, 11K gb internet connections and collaborative teams intersect. He has seen it all. And like Bar Camps , people hack.

Mexico 113

Mexico Cisco Oracle Nevada 113

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

AJAX 134

AJAX Application Open Source Plugin 134

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. Digital advertising offers an array of platforms that facilitate donations: Let’s talk about what kinds of online giving options are available for most nonprofit organizations.

Digital 52

Digital Marketing Online Fundraising 52

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . Mobile phone based applications and service .

Mobile 62

Mobile North America Mali Cameroon 62

Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. Modeling appropriate site use and enforcing the “Terms of Use” as appropriate. Model Wanted Behavior. The best way to solicit the types of participation you want is by modeling it for users to see.

Adopt 58

Adopt Collaboration Content System 58

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It's the same thing in a development context.

Interview 40

Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Your Future Operational Model? Are their server systems fully redundant from the incoming Internet connections all the way through to their back up generators? Excellent Training & Support? Training and support is critically important both during the transition and also over the long term. Is there code in escrow (ie.

Platform 186

Platform Software System Facilitation 186

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Crowds Can Not Be Trained Like Seals by Beth Kanter. 2) Crowd Creation.

Measure 96

Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# This was in the solidly web 1.0 This was in the solidly web 1.0 In what ways have they not?

Summary 100

Summary Consultant NTC Technology 100

Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Live facilitation has a varied role in museums. In special immersion exhibits like Dialogue in the Dark , in which visitors are led through a pitch black experience by a blind guide, or live action games like Operation Spy, facilitators are a necessary part of the experience. Hiring, training, and scheduling floor staff is expensive.

Facilitation 20

Facilitation Museum Interaction Denver 20

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fundraising Tools: Most nonprofit CRMs also come equipped with fundraising tools that facilitate donations, both online and IRL (that’s “in real life,” for those of you who don’t speak Internet). Once you have chosen a CRM, make sure you have time to train your staff on how to use it. Read reviews online.

Guide 52

Guide Database Nonprofit Blackbaud 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me.

Teach 100

Teach Support Technology Empowerment 100

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2012

I can remember thinking “You pay me to be the resident expert and you pay to send me to training. If this doesn’t work, consider bringing in an outside person like a facilitator or consultant. The most successful fundraising event I’ve worked with was a fundraiser/friendraiser based on the Benevon model.

Question 56

Question Mail Rate Donor 56

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. Rose, your face is permanently frozen that way because people will shock you on the internet. Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. Oh, my gosh.

Management 92

Management Work Video Slides 92

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2012

I can remember thinking “You pay me to be the resident expert and you pay to send me to training. If this doesn’t work, consider bringing in an outside person like a facilitator or consultant. The most successful fundraising event I’ve worked with was a fundraiser/friendraiser based on the Benevon model.

Question 40

Question Mail Rate Donor 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups. It is also can be expensive for participants from outside the US, but WomenWhoTech and their sponsors offset the long distance charges and one participant got access to use a faster Internet connection.

Tech 100

Tech Rwanda Tunisia Kenya 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. The envisioned twenty-first-century model, however, is more level.

Museum 82

Museum Arts Artist Conservancy 82

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Workers are not paid for training time to master a job or for transit time between gigs.

Platform 140

Platform Technology United States New York 140