Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not. The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. 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

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. Interactive Lectures by Sivasailam Thiagarajan. If you teach in higher education, you most likely will find yourself having to deliver a lecture. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act, a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me. This past year was my 4th year as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

This conference used interactive design — such as visual facilitation, speed geeks, world cafe, full group discussions, small group discussions, and interactive lectures. I facilitated the sessions using the translation headsets and by bilingual colleagues to help me translate in real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week. I did a measurement workshop at SXSW and we were in a traditional college lecture hall – fixed seating that rises, desks on the seats, and no room for small group interaction. It takes a little bit of hacking to create some interaction, but it was a challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. This is the last post in a series of post about my experience at SXSW.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Are you challenged by lecture-formats? The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Winners will be crowd-sourced from conference participants and receive cash-awards on day 2 of the event. REGISTER here! Still unsure? Kick the tires. Blow your mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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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. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. So, varying speakers, interaction, and mediums – helps make the content stick.

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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. I also was a guest lecturer for a Berkeley MBA Class on networks. Year in Review. Teaching: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development. I do this all the time.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Human attention peaks at about about 12 minutes, particularly if it is a lecture. The learners will space out and come back to attention but not as at the high level at they did at the beginning of the presentation. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Do you think strategically about your professional network to support learning and your work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. This was the first 90 minutes of the workshop, and while content and interaction kept in active learning mode — the next step was a synthesis. I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. The model also talks about “ relapses ” and I see this a lot, especially with smaller organizations when they have a staff change or other priorities, the networked strategies they’ve adopted might get dropped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Nonprofit organizations can be mindful of additional barriers and identify trusted facilitators to bridge gaps. There is no golden standard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. The description: The !deation

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. Our session was really about “train the trainer” which requires going beyond mere content delivery and do what I call “going meta.”

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

For example, you’ll need far fewer volunteers at a small lecture event than you will at a community-wide dance-a-thon. You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. Also, take the size of your event or volunteering task into account.

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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. Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media and data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This is a short workshop and will be mostly delivered as an interactive lecture/demo style - with audience interaction. " This reminded of the Thiagi's Interactive Lecture techniques. Also, some new types of questions about training and education approaches for nonprofits and specific tips for under-resourced nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. The first session was the overview - interactive lecture. The conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. And, while, I'm not a lawyer, the discussion was so relevant to technology adoption/change issues and it Rebecca was a damn good virtual facilitator. I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2005

Since the workshop is essentiallly about designing more interactive face-to-face learning environments, I don't want to model a 85 minute lecture with 100 slide powerpoint, leaving 5 minutes for q&A at end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Resource List Early Use of Backchannels Tara Hunt, Backchannel=Blogosphere Marc Cantor, Spell My Name Correctly Liz Lawley, Backchannel Modes Liz Lawley, Confessions of a Backchannel Queen Clay Shirky, Snarkiness on Parade NY Times, In the Lecture Hall, A Geek Chorus Dannah Boyd, Bridging Diverse Groups Backchannel in Learning and Education Vicky Davis, (..)

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Instead, they get a lecture on what really happened in 1983. And the intention was for the facilitator to point out either during the experience itself or during the debrief that there are a lot of different choices. Whenever he enters the "wrong" choice, there's a loud, angry buzzer.

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