Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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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

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 total, 19 organizations participated in 10 webinars.

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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. Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. What are some tips and techniques? But we didn't stop there. How do you scale?

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. Here are three broad approaches: Grab a free or cheap tool and get started fast. WARNING: using an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy tool does not mean you can skip or shortchange the strategy and planning phases outlined in the earlier posts in this series.

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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. Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

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. . I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Not wanting to miss an opportunity to play with my new toy, err, learn how to use my new tool, the Nokia N95, I did a live broadcast of our dinner. More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). What role do technologies such as blogs, wikis and social book marking might play in your community???s

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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. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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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. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. . Over the Shoulder Learning on Steroids: Social Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

tools and websites. tools and websites (circumvention techniques, online petitions and campaign.). .); tools and websites (circumvention techniques, online petitions and campaign.). applications either via the Advocacy Wiki site or by e-mail through the contact page. the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

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. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques. The tools used will include (but not limited to) a combination of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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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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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. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

blogs, Twitter, wikis and various widgets (like IM interfaces that help people connect, converse, swap ways of doing things and gather feedback from colleagues and customers). Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator. From yesteryear to tomorrow Enter social software. Change agent who's been around many blocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. If I was in a room, live, I would have facilitated a brief conversation about the themes and interjected the themes into conversation - and then summarized them succintly with the slides. Full of copyright issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print. Evaluation. Leave a Comment.

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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." The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? Crowdsourcing View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. No wonder I am still tired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So I scribled down some patterns related to blogging, tagging, photostreams, and wikis. Her additional points about the use of Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation spurred some additional reflections (boy I feel a writely document coming on.) F2F is a precious resource, not to be squandered.

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