Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

You can also check a few ice breakers and energizers on our video recording of the session. Interactive Meeting Techniques. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. Creating Connection in a Time of Covid-19 – interview with Nancy White. Just say no when you have too many meetings without a break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. In this segment I interview Jonny Goldstein about how to shoot video without shooting yourself in the foot in the editing room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page? With video, don’t try to capture everything. With video, don’t try to capture everything.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2016

A compelling story makes a video stick with its audience, but if it looks poorly made, nobody's going to watch it. Most of the modern smartphones' cameras can shoot high-resolution video. To up your video quality, you might try downloading a video-capturing app, such as MoviePro ($5) or FiLMiC Pro ($10).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. Here’s how they combined the videos.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Digital content, including blog posts, videos, interviews, and constituent stories, will help to: Engage supporters and keep your organization on their minds. Check out our digital session on demand with Cornershop Creative about digital advocacy tactics and techniques to help you power your programs and purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo. It made me think of building stuff with legos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Ask for help.

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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. ” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Here are my notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. Visual Icebreakers: Video allows us to see people’s faces and objects on your desk or something you bring to the meeting. Here’s a write of this technique.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Mock Interviews: Help A+ Certified Tech Perfect their Interviewing Techniques! April 3, 2012) : A huge part of landing your new job is winning the interview. We need your help to get The Stride Center students interview ready!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

For this screencast, I conducted several interviews lasting approximately 50 minutes. So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

At NTC, I organized a panel and drop-in clinic called 'NTC Video GeekOut" featuring Jonny Goldstein and Andy Carvin. I also video blogged the session and caught up with a participant for a quick interview about their impressions. Rule of thumb: If you are video blogging for an organization, have people sign a release.

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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. Master curator, Robin Good, is the all around expert when comes to the topic of content curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here’s the video if you want to see it in action). Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention.

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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

APRIL 2, 2013

Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community – and special surprise guests who will join us via video. I had the pleasure of designing this session with Will Coley – who interviewed the best content curators in the world and get them share their best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

It is also a good technique to easily capture the digital artifacts from the event to prepare the after story. You can also use storify to curate tweets, photos, videos, resources, and links during the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the highlights was to observe David Wilcox’s new technique. These days, he does video blogging with his iphone. Here’s an interview he did with me and Steve Bridger after the session. Afterwards, we debriefed on the his tool box and techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview. Also, you need, as Jan Gordon points out in the skype video interview, to know the audience’s content consumption patterns and interests. As is my presenting style, this will be an interactive session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. If not, we’ll roll the video. I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. One is a collection of selected articles, slide decks, and interviews with Robin Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I'm the moderator for the Flickr for Nonprofits Online Affinity Group over at NTEN and during a recent exchange about nonprofits using online photo and (video) contests to call attention to the causes, Cordellia and Susanne caught my attention. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Because a hybrid event can be so engaging and the video elements of that event can be used as a lead generation tool and future webinar, you want to make sure that you consider using high-quality equipment and hiring a professional event videographer. Ways a Hybrid Event Will Use Video. Why Does Video Style Matter? .

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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. A proven technique to capture email addresses either from your website visitors or your social media followers is to offer a digital download. com, consider the following.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

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. We used: I love grass-fed beef. A/B Testing.

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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. Or maybe it is negative thoughts.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Put a human face on the cause through case studies, testimonials, and videos. This helps show the mission’s importance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

If you want to get acceptable audio for video blogging on an inexpensive camera you need to control the noise/environment or get really close to your subject. That's me interviewing Jonny Goldstein after he interviewed me. I asked him about shooting techniques. He didn't have a card, but I gave him mine.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Often, an effective title (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) This was important because we were using a lot of interactive techniques like world cafe and speed geek that may have been new ways of learning for some participants. Design for Flexibility. And, indeed we had journalists present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

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. We help guide it."

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Often, an effective title (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Video: Our session was lived streamed and we have a video. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. Text Notes: Every session has volunteer note takers writing notes in a google document. Our session is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. Some really good design points.

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