Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. The question. Arts organizations are not alone in this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are many nonprofit, social media, and technology conferences all year long. The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. I’ll share the results and insights during our panel. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Conference: March 12-15th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Use Learning Theory. to define the four levels of training evaluation. The four levels are: Reaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Are you promoting cutting edge technologies in a physical trade show supported by access to virtual trade show elements? . This program was put together by the Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) and trains facilities in biorisk reduction, proper cleaning and sanitization techniques, and ensures access and use of PPE. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

A great change management technique, build (or re-engineer) your policies in a collaborative way.? Creating (or re-engineering) policies together results in buy-in, clarity to the donor and greater efficiency.???? . Blips in this can result in tax exempt status being revoked and impact charity watchdog ratings.?

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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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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service.

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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. This leads me to a question, “Why don’t more people who work for nonprofits embrace this “learning from failure” or growth mindset – especially when using technology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Google has launched Analytics Academy , a three-week online course t three-week course offers the basics for those seeking to understand the how to improve results through better digital measurement. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange. In essence, the grantees didn’t feel pressured to just report “the good.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results. ” Always Be Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake into a surprising portal of discovery. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it There are countless books that tell you how to avoid mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been designing curriculum and materials and facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Click to see larger version.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Having a networked mindset as you approach your daily work can help you get better results. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. You can more efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF). 88 per-cent of the organizations said they had been cited in blogs as a result of their outreach efforts.

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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. I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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. I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. I think this is particularly important to emphasize if you want to nurture any peer learning, but especially around technology skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Nonprofit Technology, and more! Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Nonprofit Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have learned a lot – and the results have helped me be way more productive (and drop a lot of pounds toos!). The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. Groups of 5-16: Meetings with larger groups tend to result in more than one conversation while walking.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit consulting services might solve a specific challenge, like customizing and cleaning up your database , or serve as more of a long-term investment, like designing a complete technology plan for your nonprofit. Technology strategy and solution implementation. We specialize in: Nonprofit technology strategy development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. I did a presentation on social media and nonprofits in the afternoon.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. After a very successful three days I had some time to reflect about what made this technology initiative such a success. Murphy's Law: technology will inherently fail you when you least expect it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

During the Full Circle training on online facilitation that I took this last month, we had a sandbox. In fact, you can get some decent results using free software and a digital camera. The short piece explores the push/pull between computers/technology and people. You just need a little creative immersion time.

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