Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. I had the opportunity to facilitate a table conversation about capacity building in transition. Flickr photo by DoroQuez.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. The 7 minute video above is from Matt Smith who is a Seattle improviser and auctioneer. Here’s how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Funders develop service delivery projects, in this case around behavioral health, and used the efforts to facilitate policy change. Photo by Sea Turtle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Seattle, Washington: Facilitating Great Board Meetings. Seattle, Washington: Help Nonprofits Upgrade to Windows 10. Seattle, Washington: Building Better Websites with Web Accessibility. Seattle, Washington: Board Advocacy: Are You Ready to Stand for Your Mission? Monday, May 8, 2017. Tuesday, May 9, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The topic intrigued me, but I must confess that I was also drawn to the session because Beth Kanter was facilitating it.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Stephen Blyth of Common Knowledge invited Beth Kanter to visit New Zealand to facilitate some workshops for NGOs interested in networked capacity building. Seattle’s Michael Grenetz is leading the Sierra Club’s WTZuck campaign against FWD.US’s Seattle, WA: May Mixer & Benefit for Net2Seattle. Bonus Feature.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 24, 2006

Lynn Stott, who has the terrifying task of overseeing the redesign of Techsoup's website, also facilitated. Got to meet a couple more of the bloggers I enjoy following: David Geilhufe of Social Source , and Sonny Cloward of Vermont NonProfit CommunIT, at a session on open communication technologies.

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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. I’ve written about a number of techniques that nonprofits use on their teams to let go of failure here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. Flickr Photo by Mburpee.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. One man (Gordon from Kirkland) told us that "Vi is kind of a celebrity" in the Seattle Chinatown community, which made the rest of us more excited about taking a tour from her. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

A reporter from the Seattle Times asked how the company makes sure that their day jobs actually gets done. This enables us to have impact, scale and sustainability. “ Unleashing Technology. View more presentations from Akhtarbad. Microsoft has the culture and resources to support and encourage these social ventures.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. Social Media in Program Delivery.

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See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

NTEN facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information within the nonprofit community. Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. For additional information about See3 Communications, visit www.see3.net

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Last week, I prototyped four exhibit ideas with the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Four good things about this kind of failure: It confirmed that there was a difference in visitor response to different facilitated activities. Three were hits. One was a total dud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

What's it like behind the firewall facilitating everyone in the organization to embrace social media? During the past 8 days the two of us have wandered this great land of ours, bouncing around from Reston Va, to Ann Arbor Mi, a stop in Boulder Co, a quick hop over the Rocky’s to Seattle Wa and finally coming home to Washington DC.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

To kick off the course, we’re doing a simple exercise at the Seattle zoo (but you can do it anywhere). The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. The experiment requires you to go to a public space and do three things: Talk to a stranger.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Technology can help connect disparate actors across geographies, share data to facilitate the identification of victims and traffickers, improve case management and survivor care, and raise awareness in at-risk communities. and Seattle Against Slavery. How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected trafficking globally?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I called in to participate in a radio show in Seattle , then zoomed downtown for meetings, after which I headed home to cook for a dinner party. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. The afternoon of September 24 was hectic.

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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." Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. So, armed with an improvised mobile wireless mic, I used an Oprah style facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

My way of being generous is to share and facilitate sharing of knowledge about nonprofits effective use of social media and networks. During this week’s Measuring Networked Nonprofit events in Seattle that included fantastic conversations about measurement, data, and impact, I’ve been reflecting on the “too hard to measure.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

She is on faculty at the University of Washington and Seattle University, and has lectured at the University of Chicago. Flickr Photo by Las-Initially. She heads up Claxon , a company on a mission to teach those doing good how to get noticed. Mills is a lover of words in general, and verbs and adverbs in particular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

I've attended Green Drinks in Vancouver & Seattle and think this event format is wonderful for socializing - if that's your cup of tea (or rather glass of wine!) I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2011

On my end, I might have also filtered my social graph to just my friends here in Seattle so I could buy a friend a coffee or beer while he’s helping me think about phones. That builds customer satisfaction with my new purchase, which, let us not forget, was also facilitated by Friend Discovery.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Seattle, WA / $1,000. Entrepreneurship. The 2016 Just Giving Conference. The 2016 Just Giving Conference. Apr 19 - 21. General / #ENP16.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I got involved in some of the anti-globalization work at that time and my group, Art and Revolution, was doing a lot of education and outreach through dance and giant puppets and theater and doing a lot of tours to mobilize people to come to Seattle. We never saw it in action before we started doing it.

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