Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. My Theme for the Year: Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Nostalgia is much more than mere reminiscing; it’s a warm, fuzzy emotion that we feel when we think about fond memories from our past. In a 2012 study, researchers discovered that nostalgizing helps people relate their past experiences to their present lives in order to make greater meaning of it all. Or just keep your ears open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

You can view the videos and presentations on the conference materials page. ” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews. Here are my notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

They also interviewed a former Google product manager turned interface design ethicist, Tristan Harris , about how tech companies are intentionally creating a large scale epidemic of people getting hooked to their smartphones. (It He provides techniques to help you answer a simple question, “Does this deserve my attention?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. 1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. The Networked Health Organization. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I’ve learned so much just watching his curation technique over at scoop.it. Robin recently shared his comprehensive map of content curation skills, dividing them into couple of key categories. There are over 250 tools in this collection, so it might be a little bit overwhelming for beginners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org. Content is king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. And, indeed we had journalists present. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. Design for Flexibility.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews. tabling at events, community presentations, etc.)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. One of the highlights was to observe David Wilcox’s new technique. Here’s an interview he did with me and Steve Bridger after the session. Afterwards, we debriefed on the his tool box and techniques. UK Networked Nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2016

There are several effective free techniques to grow your email list using the current digital assets and online properties your organization already has. Although your website home page is your first priority, don't neglect to optimize how the offer is presented on your other top 10 traffic pages. com, consider the following.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. This helps presenters gauge the audience and figure out whether to dial up or dial down their presentation. (I How do you debrief for yourself after a presentation, panel, or workshop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic. In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. Have several interviews before you offer the job. . Include them in presentations. Creating a sustainable funding source takes years, so work hard to keep your overhead as low as possible while you’re building your donor list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

View more presentations from womenwhotech. As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I explored some of the tools and techniques to apply some of the big ideas about understanding social networks that are our book, The Networked Nonprofit. Organizational reporting. Communications flows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta.

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

Quantitative methods will likely use a survey as the data collection instrument, whereas qualitative methods might necessitate in-depth interviewing. Some companies only provide survey research services, while other companies only offer interviewing services. Others yet are capable of either or both techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. The other skill building session was a session on working SMARTer on social channels – What are the time saving techniques?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end. This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction. Think Beyond Presenters. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Large: Over 50 people.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

. – [Lindsay] I’m like I need to present. . So are you ready for me to present my slides? . So here’s the next survey, Steven, right off the bat, just to make sure everybody’s kind of present and getting us grounded. – [Steven] Yes. – [Steven] Here we go. . – [Lindsay] Thank you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I stumbled across the Pomodoro technique which is very similar to time boxing (assigning discrete blocks of time to a particular task and using a timer), but the method also gives you some ways to prioritize work. Photo by TBN98.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Social Media Explained View more presentations from kanter. Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Joe Page met us in town and we reviewed the Bachelor catalog looking for a good subject to interview. So, I did an ambush interview ask him to share why community giving is important. I hope you’ll take the five minutes to watch the clip. Here’s some thoughts: From Nancy Duarte's new book, resonate. Click to play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. There was a wonderful interview with Jane McGonigal and Kelly McGonigal about their work.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

No presenter who just reads bullet points off a PowerPoint instead does it because they want their audience to eagerly contemplate running from the room. Great journalists love this technique—it gets them the best interviews and quotes. That way, they’ll be able to prepare their response, objections and questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

In his book, Parr interviews experts in the field of psychology and cognition to examine what it takes to build this “bonfire of attention,” and presents a framework about the 7 “captivation triggers” of attention. Parr spent over two years researching and interviewing people for this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. The moderator then interviews people at different points on the spectrum about the opinions they hold. OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences. Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Global Community Affairs for Microsoft kicked off the day with an interactive presentation about the trends in technology. Watech4good Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Fundraising Campaigns and Presentations Camera Rwanda Photo Stream Post with an interview Street Kids Fundraising Campaign raised $8,000 from photo group Sharing Foundation Presentation annotated in a flickr photo set. Source for Presentations, Documentation Methods. More Advanced Techniques. A List of Examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I will be presenting a free webinar on January 8 at 2 PM EST. Register here. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings. All HRP’s publications are available online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement. In a recent interview, John Hadyon reinforced this timeless piece of Facebook engagement advice.

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