Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Weave reflection Into Meetings: Incorporate formalized reflection activities such as “ After Action Reviews ” for large projects and campaigns. Having a workplace flexibility policy can facilitate it. Rituals to Promote Growth and Learning.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.” Compensate them for their contributions generously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Update any training materials to reflect the latest cybersecurity trends, threats, and prevention strategies to keep your staff up to date. You should create password policies that include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Updated training. Strong passwords. Password management software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. That is one reason why I always incorporate a reflection at the end that helps participates identify one small action step. Sit down with my executive director to discuss a process for a social media policy. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Have a social media strategy brainstorm with staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Note: This guest post was published on the Packard Foundation OE Blog reflects what was learned from designing and delivering leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. That’s why we’ve included a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofits to apply the ideas and frameworks.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

The State of Babies Yearbook is an interactive web platform that educates public and political leaders about the unique developmental needs of babies and toddlers and advances policy solutions to support and strengthen families. The post Year-End Reporting: Data-Driven Ways to Tell Your Story appeared first on Forum One.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The practical volunteer management skills – the supervision, the policies, the strategies – it’s easier to find instruction in these areas. My Circles required a financial investment to reflect my time as planner and facilitator. It’s possible, though, for colleagues to band together and establish their own groups.

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MARCH 13, 2023

In addition to optimizing the software and tools you use to facilitate large amounts of data, keeping data clean is essential to ensuring you can understand and accurately report it. Additionally, establish clear policies and procedures for staff to follow when entering data.

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APRIL 22, 2022

It is not a time to reflect, it is a time to act. We need new policies, new technology, new strategies, and local support in order to build, implement, and sustain the kinds of solutions that will help us make progress on our goals. Earth Day reminds each and every one of us of our responsibility to the planet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

The number one thing we can do to help groups learn is to create space and time for reflection. What if we incentivised time spent in reflection and with each other? What if we incentivised time spent in reflection and with each other? Wouldn’t those be better first steps toward facilitating effective group learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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APRIL 16, 2021

The event gives passionate supporters a way to breathe and reflect. Each campaign supports stronger policies and improves enforcement while also inspiring public support for stronger conservation, including sustainable choices to protect wildlife habitats. California State Parks Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

” It requires more than having a social media policy in place, although that is the first step no doubt. The product is a diagram or a series of diagrams like the one above for a large nonprofit facilitated by Steve Heye that outlines the steps. It involves discussions and buy-in from stakeholders. How did you develop it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Have a formal policy about sending after hours emails. Some organizations have explicit policies such as “no email between 7pm-7am. This can contribute to overload unless you have a method to establish a remote work policy. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Are there competing priorities?

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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. These statements prompted some rich insights. I learned that you can’t explain complex, wonky policy positions in 140 characters, but you could communicate or let people know the policy paper exists with a punchy statement and pointer to the paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I had the opportunity to facilitate 3 world café sessions on this topic this morning at the GEO: Growing Social Impact in a Networked World funder conference. How can networks facilitate that? Social Policy: Organizing for Social and Economic Justice , vol.28, How do networks evolve into movements?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). Here’s some tips on how to write or revise a social media policy that empowers your employees. Social Media Policy: Building Good Judgement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. Flickr Image – ImageGroup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The term means learning culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Reflect on this a minute and ask yourself, “How have I encouraged and supported the success of each volunteer?”. So whether you had a great discussion, made a key decision, agreed on next steps for a project or set a new policy – get the minutes out within a few days. Facilitate relationships amongst your board members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. In essence, the BLK SHP are a loose guild of America’s leading creative thinkers, writers, policy-makers, artists, entrepreneurs, investors, and social entrepreneurs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

I’ve been poking around on the newly relaunched iStart platform lately and want to share some of my reflections (and hopefully get some of yours, too!). They also support a range of files so your contest could be a logo redesign or a social media policy, a video clip or a conference session proposal. The ins and outs.

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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. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Written social media policy. How do you facilitate others on staff to create content when they might not be have strong content skills? What tools do you use to manage the your editorial calendar and content creation process? Advocates get better at communications – proactive/planning, partner engagement, message discipline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Research and policy analysis. Community organizing. Civic engagement. Leadership development.

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ASU Lodestar Center

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. Affordable Hous. & Cmty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Determine a “friending” policy. Now that people can subscribe, you don’t have to friend everybody. It wasn’t clear exactly whether it was a violation of FB policy as Mari Smith noted. Measure Networked Nonprofit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. That way, my brand page content gets into newsfeeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

They are tasked with the important work of research, creating our policy agenda and providing strategy for legislative campaigns. Policy and research staff have a different culture than those of us who work directly with individuals on the group. Unfortunately, we were reprimanded for not being “on message” with our policy agenda.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2016

By individually supporting one another, staff members can be mentally and emotionally present and be uplifting and motivating every day, which can reflect on the produced work and achievements of your nonprofit. Self-Care is Real! You and I—we’re humans, we’re social creatures. We get exhausted from all of our responsibilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.". The latter reflects an approach we refer to as “real-time” evaluation. Over the past four years we have been shifting from evaluation for proof or accountability (“Did the program work?”)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2015

That is a slogan on a t-shirt, and while meant as a joke, it is all too familiar for many nonprofits. Meetings that waste your time! This means it makes sense to tackle more intense types of meetings and work flow when the energy is high.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. It also facilitates conversation with people who are not in the room. anilkanji : In writing your social media policy & guidelines, build in answers for your org to “what’s the worst that could happen&# @kanter #ncwk. Tweets from people not in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Since 2000, the Institute of International Education has worked on leadership development with the goal of building and sustaining networks of leaders who would improve the delivery of family planning and reproductive health outcomes through improved services and policies. His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

I facilitated a session in the afternoon called Managing Information Overload: Finding Your Blog Community." Participants shared some great ideas in the reflection forms and I will do a round up later this week. As Lisa mentions in her wrap up post, the session ended up touching on the issue of blog policies.

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