Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here’s the video if you want to see it in action).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community – and special surprise guests who will join us via video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories.

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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. . For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Put a human face on the cause through case studies, testimonials, and videos. Facilitate two-way dialogue to make supporters feel heard.

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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. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

This video is from a local site in Louisville , part of the Annie E. Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I presented a workshop at the Bay Area Video Coalition Nonprofit Institution. This requires carefully thinking about comment moderation techniques and part of this includes articulating a clear policy about use of moderation. Great Darren Rowse Problogger Interview by Guy on Sun. by Ken Fischer.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Before the event we used the Knowledge Garage to share document resources with participants, promote discussions and idea sharing, and to facilitate online connections so participants could better connect with each other when the Summit began. If you shoot video, make a reel of outtakes. Be creative AND flexible.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I was curious to observe the gender balance at Penguin Day and while I'm not as meticulous as Christine in counting and calculating the number of women and men in the room, I took a quick video to get a reading. The video captures those on the philsophical side. What are the techniques for conversational weaving?

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sharing stories about your volunteers, beneficiaries, staff members, and other stakeholders can introduce potential new supporters to what your mission is all about and facilitate a positive connection with your nonprofit. You’ve probably heard of the narrative technique “show, don’t tell.” Incorporate multimedia elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. I also discovered during our interview that Nedra plays the cello !) Outside of blogs, I think that anything that facilitates word of mouth can be very effective.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Experience sourcing passive talent, working with recent college graduates, and facilitating hiring processes is a must. The Talent Acquisition Partner should have a proven track record of sourcing, screening, and providing a strong pipeline of diverse candidates for Salesforce roles.

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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." The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? Crowdsourcing View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. To share techniques and low costs tools for data visualization that nearly any user can begin using quickly. Amy Gahran, CNN Journalist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

You can find the description and bios here and if you want to the video of the whole session, you can find it here. The conversation was non-linear, insightful, and allowed for debate on different points of view from the panelists. It’s hard to find funders who will fund a risky idea – they usually want case studies an proven techniques.

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