Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages. Tags: scholar technology training training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Why or why not?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

The workshop started with a welcoming ceremony. We sat in the hall – two rows – the guests and the Maori. I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

This year SXSW is offered something new: workshops on a wide range of topics from some of the top people in their industry. I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Workshop: Using Community Organizing for Effective Online Campaigns. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? We invite both individual activists and staffers in organizations to take part in this workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. I just returned from doing Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshops at the National Summer Learning Association’s Conference in Indianapolis.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. Facilitator bits. I tried to help workshop leaders work some of these in on the fly, but that put unreasonable stress on them. You did great. Vary the activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2010

I first met Joitske back in 2005 through Nancy White’s online facilitation workshop. We had a lot of sandbox time to explore tagging and other emerging web 2.0 Tags: Networked Nonprofit. technologies. techniques all over the world. Can’t wait to hear what she thinks about the ideas in the book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. James Leventhal facilitated a workshop in Portland last month along with Adam Rozan of the Oakland Museum of California and Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ). Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate.   In order to play this version of the game, you absolutely need a mix of knowledgable people in the room to facilitate the small groups. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

During the summer, I’ve been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. You need to have markers and “Hello My Name Is” name tags. Icebreakers have these benefits: • create a positive group atmosphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

My role in the project is to the facilitate the training sessions, design the overall training, facilitate openers and closings, help prep the curriculum, and deliver modules on digital strategy and social media. Working with Wake is also a wonderful professional development experience to hone training and facilitation trade craft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. Tags: wearemedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

I was reflecting on that and how Twitter can really facilitate network weaving. Thank you June for a fantastic and inspiring workshop! Tags: network weaving. She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. How are you weaving people in your network? Have a story? She's the guru of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. Tags: Conferences alaska. Theme of the Leadership Summit was wellness for the field, community, and individuals. It was a powerful, amazing moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2009

The day includes workshops, one-on-one coaching sessions, and keynotes by Arianna Huffington , Randi Zuckerberg and Craig Newmark. And, I'm leading a workshop on social media strategy. Tags: promotion. For years, I've been wanting to attend and this year, finally, I am! There is also ample time for networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. Tags: social media. CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Center for Nonprofit Excellent Workshop View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nptech nonprofits ). I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. I'm doing two workshops. I'd bore myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

tags: nonprofits socialmedia ). Last week I facilitated a workshop at the Kellogg Action Lab's College of Consultants Convening. I wish I could have attended the other workshops that were taking place at the same time as mine - from David La Piana on Strategic Planning and Dione Alexander from the Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The event is sponsored by Patagonia as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility program. I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. As with any workshop that I do, I believe that there is a lot to learn from the people in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. The workshop begins on April 20th and you can register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? Some Learnings on Practice.

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2008

As some of you know, I've been doing career consulting workshops and one-on-one sessions since 1998 when I trained with Carol Lloyd to teach her Life Worth Living workshops. Now I work with people on-one-one, and facilitate workshops, like the one I did for Stanford's Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area Spring Break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. Most of the social media tools and tag lines did translate, although there isn’t specific Arabic concept or phrase for “user-generated content.&#.

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