Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. The article suggests that the skill of self-reflection is the secret sauce for learning how to become an agile learner. How many of us allocate quiet time to reflect every day on what we learned and how we can build on that insight?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection. David Eckoff and Chris Brogan Photos by Steve Garfield. Chris Brogan and David Eckoff gave a killer session about setting priorities and time management techniques. Photo by Jonny Goldstein.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

I'm still dancing on the edges between action and reflection, but wanted to get down some of my evolving next action steps and questions for reflection. How can I improve my live blogging technique and better integrate with personal networking? I was so overcomed with emotion, that I didn't a get a photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Photo by Kino-Eye in Flickr. I asked him about shooting techniques. It's part of my series of video blogging famous video bloggers on technique (so far have interviewed or captured them in action -- Nick Booth , Steve Garfield , and Robert Scoble ). His conference reflections are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

It recommends links and photos while you write. I also didn't like the photos it recommended (and in fact one it suggested was all rights reserved). In some ways, I found using it counter-intuitive to my thinking and reflection process. will save you time and increase traffic. I have way too many posts in draft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Have a passion for the art, and the technique will follow.” Note from Beth: I missed out on the Olympics in London this year while I was traveling in Cambodia. While the world acclaimed sports event was taking place in London, the Gay Chorus Olympics was taking place in Denver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Use Time Management Techniques. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. In both social media profiles his publications are mostly about charity: water, including anecdotes about the team, photos from the field and retweets from the official charity: water account. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

Flickr Photo by udithawix. That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. But having many choices and opportunities requires developing a special set of skills in order to be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? Alligator on the St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. What do you think are some of the evolving best practices and techniques using these tools?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Most people who really love and support a museum want it to be loved and well-used by the larger community, and many of these folks are thrilled by techniques that engage new people with the organization. Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

The Conference focused on evolving techniques, tools, and ideas about collaborating across organizational boundaries and elsewhere. As Annette points out in her reflections about the conference, everyone was talking about how to connect more effectively, particularly in teams and meetings. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Most people who really love and support a museum want it to be loved and well-used by the larger community, and many of these folks are thrilled by techniques that engage new people with the organization. Yes and no.

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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. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. 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. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Photo by Social Misfits. This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops. Storify with Tweets and Photos. They post a photo of the recipient on their Facebook page and tag the donor as a way to say thank you. Charles Wells, JustGiving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) Here's a photo of one of the retired couples who came with their family to celebrate her 80th birthday in the exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. sharpie.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

Flickr Photo by Julia Smith. It’s hard to find funders who will fund a risky idea – they usually want case studies an proven techniques. Typically, I like to incorporate some “share pairs” some reflective questions that people in the audience can share with each other. Knowledge Capture and Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

But, cartoons can be terrific infographics or used as technique for sense-making. Cartoons are good communication tool. Countless online meme-generating sites can let you whip up a sharable text-on-photo image in seconds; a mobile photo captioning app like Over for iOS lets you do it yourself right on your own device.

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