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Tips To Make Online Meetings Less Exhausting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to look better on camera, you can raise the level of the laptop or use a light close to you! Interactive Meeting Techniques. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. And it can be exhausting staring at a screen most of the day. Use Zoom backgrounds if you want to hide your messy house. List of Energizers.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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Bridge Conference: Social Media ROI: Mapping Metrics to Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week's theme is social media ROI. That's what I've been thinking, speaking, and writing about and have also recruited guest posts on this topic. As KD Paine, the queen of social media measurement says, yes we can measure social media and here's how. There is a learning piece that has to happen first.

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How can create a back channel or other social media tools that can engage people in the room, but also around the world with an interest in the topic? A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. I suspect I’m not alone.

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Does This Deserve My Attention?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. She coined a phrase “continuous partial attention,” to describe why we multi-task in an age of social media – not to get more done, but not to miss out.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. Program Design. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.