Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Social Media Strategy Game Workshop Final View more presentations from kanter. I was in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-day workshop is designed for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Justice Leaders, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks.

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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. Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy. An example of this creative spirit was when one group created a new card on a napkin. Tags: training materials. I feel really inspired!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania. When it comes to campaigning on facebook, the real question is page vs group. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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APRIL 9, 2010

During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles and methods of campaign mapping. Attendees will divide into break-out groups to design the online campaign. The groups will use both community organizing principles and social media tools to create an online social media campaign.

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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. Half-Day Session : Social Media Strategy Game which included small group work for participants to come up with a strategy for both external communications and an internal learning network to share best practices. Tags: backchannel. Photo by Justin Benttinen. Why or why not?

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2021

Another way to foster engagement and make them feel valued is by inviting them to exclusive workshops and networking experiences. If appropriate, find ways to engage with them in person with your constituent groups—and short of this, see how you can personally connect them to their target communities through video and reports.

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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. Icebreakers have these benefits: • create a positive group atmosphere. Also be aware of the group dynamics. help people to relax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Particularly the tagging discussion which included an action learning exercise as well as lot of sharing of resources and information about tagging. What I liked about the experience was the combination of people who were somewhat new to tagging and others who have been doing it for a while. In your my del.icio.us

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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

JULY 13, 2007

where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. I stumbled upon the term "pivot browsing" while researching a workshop I gave about tagging. I have a theory, that I won't share, about why there are only 9 members in the group.) Bottom-Up Tagging. Flickr and Libraries.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios. 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?

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

What: NTEN is holding an online workshop on social media using a Choose Your Own Expert format. They've gathered a group of nonprofit social media experts to help you devise a solid organizational strategy and learn the secrets of a variety of social media tools. Tags: TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

One immediate use that came to mind is that if you had a distributed work group (based in US) that was working together, you could have people add photos and brief intro to the map. People could reference the page to visually see the group and get a reminder of time zones. Other ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I mentioned a twitter tool called Group Tweet that let you create groups on Twitter. Last week, Techcrunch reported on a privacy disaster that exposed people's private messages suggesting Group Tweet was the cause. I'm an instructor for the Connected Futures Workshop which is about communities of practice and web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I had to do it for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop. I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used. It starts today! " "How does it differ from others?"

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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

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. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

I'm knee deep in creating some new workshop curriculum. I like to use videos as part of the instruction to trigger discussion or something at the end as a group bonding mechanism. I'm knee deep in creating some new workshop curriculum. Tags: training materials. Something that has eluded me is how to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

I did some searches on the conference tag, woc2006 and noticed that the tag is the same for the World Orienteering Championship. It made me think that you have to think a little about choosing an event tag. -It It should be unique, unless for some reason you want to integrate or connect with another tag stream.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2010

I had a 90-minute workshop which was broken into two parts: a bit of presentation, and a bit of game time. Game: To play the game with your organization, team or community group, use the documents below to share the grid and other pages to print and cut out the playing cards. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0 It also offers groups where members can share slide decks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In addition to comedy, Heather is a keynote speaker and teaches her unique style of interactive performance in “ unpresenting &# workshops. I took one of her workshops recently. We had a small group and each of us had to speak in front of the group while Heather coached us.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The game will be similar in form to those you’ll find here : we’ll invent a place, break into groups around some social challenges or themes, then use sets of cards to plan how to engage people, choose social media tools, and work out how to fund the package. We’ll shoot some video and report back later. Follow us, too! socialbysocial.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The game will be similar in form to those you’ll find here : we’ll invent a place, break into groups around some social challenges or themes, then use sets of cards to plan how to engage people, choose social media tools, and work out how to fund the package. We’ll shoot some video and report back later. Follow us, too! socialbysocial.

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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. Let's take a look. Thoughts, leave them in the comments.

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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 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. Free workshop on topic of your choosing—Friday, April 24 in Seattle. He doesn't do workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I’ve been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects – from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. Great questions that help plan my content for the workshop. Tags: Training Design chat summer learning twitterchat.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! Members of the organization asked us to provide a workshop for their seniors.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

At the start of any workshop I lead related to virtual volunteering, I ask the audience, "How many of you are engaging with volunteers virtually?" " If few or no people raise their hands, I ask the question again at the end of my workshop. So I went through the workshop and then, at the end, asked the question again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. 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. I said yes. We had space for 25 organizations out of the 100 that applied.

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