Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. I was in a random hotel ballroom in Denver, ready to present on the importance of social media to over 60 social media managers from LGBT choirs around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. I’ve looked to meditation and reflection practices before – in fact – last year during a guest instructor appearance in Jennifer Aaker ’s “Power of Social Technology&# class at Stanford, I had the class do a reflection activity that involved eating a Hershy kiss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Note from Beth: Last spring, I had the pleasure of meeting Ashley Boyd,Campaign Director, for MomsRising.org who told me about Joyful Funerals. Ashley and her colleague Anita – as well as the whole team at Momsrising does a fantastic job of reflecting after each campaign on how it could be improved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

While many of the challenges for embracing a networked mindset and implementing a digital strategy that makes use of social media channels are similar for US nonprofits, there were some unique differences. The above photo shows their conference room where they have staff meetings. There are couches and comfortable chairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

Photo by Chris John Beckett Sean Stannard-Stockton wrote a reflection on my analysis of the list of “foundations that tweet”. Sean takes a point of view: I think that technology and social media in particular is best used when it helps us more fully express those things that make us uniquely human. What do you think?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

It gives your audience a tangible transformation to observe through the sharing of the written word, photos, testimonials, and videos. What lessons were learned or what circumstances were shifted? You may include physical photos of the character or describe their appearance. Act Three – Resolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

Five Social Media Must-Haves for Crisis | Social Media Today – "Organizations and businesses that don't plan for crisis will be left behind when the inevitable happens. Social helps you be your own media. So, how can social media play a positive role in crisis?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2013

We were lucky to have extraordinary documentation of the event – Rob Cottingham’s sketch notes, Jeremy Bivin’s Storify, Jenna Saubers notes, Ed Schipul’s photos – and more all curated and archived here. New definition of success: Adaptability and Transformation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I could have created guest author accounts, but I could not figure out a way where I could approve a post in draft and have it also include photos. I went through my rolodex and invited people to submit their best post related to the theme of my blog - how nonprofits use social media effectively. Have a post?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Photo by Aussiegal. Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. Here’s a few reflections about presenting remotely in locations outside of the US. Photo by Be Chandra. Format: Our session was 90 minutes. Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. One of the reflections. It also means that I can't stubbornly soldier on with a lesson plan if it is bombing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. After I wrote up this summary on my blog, How To Get Started Thinking About Online Peer Learning Communities for Nonprofit Professionals , Mitch offered to write a guest post reflecting on peer learning online and online communities. Online Communities: Are Best Practices Still Best Practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2017

Are you a small nonprofit trying to make the most of social media? Read the post below about how to measure your reach, and then join our training on how to boost it: Social Media for Social Justice: How to inspire and be seen . That’s why we’re inviting you to a free webinar on social media.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site. And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. See the photos here. But, I started with Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Suziki lessons 5-6 years ago. So, we rented a 1/10 size cello and started on some lessons. Many, many memories. He really wanted to play the cello.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

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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? The report out was amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. However, most of the donors were definitely social media contacts with whom I have had more in-depth conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Round up of New Year's Reflections, Best Ofs, and Predictions for 2008. In the nonprofit space, Joe Solomon ( @engagejoe ) has written about ten best social action platforms. Ah, but what format to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. They got enough comments in two hours to fill a truck.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Amy DeVita, Third Sector Today “Email’s Not as Awesome as It Used to Be”: Highlights from M+R Benchmark Study , Aine Creeden, Nonprofit Quarterly Social-Media Stars Ascend as Top Partners for Nonprofits , Megan O''Neil, The Chronicle of Philanthropy Storifys #15NTCGreenScreen - We should have one every year!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of that work we get to connect with and learn from organizations using new media in the field -- and this summer we hit the road, attending the International AIDS Conference , CDC's Health Communication, Marketing, and Marketing Conference , the Ryan White All Grantee meeting , and the U.S. New media is a fantastic listening tool.

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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. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 12, 2015

Before you tell the world about your new organization, take a lesson from the Boy Scouts: Be prepared. Let your brand reflect your values. Let your messaging, logo, colors and name all reflect your mission and values. Think of your website as the most visible reflection of your organization. Social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

flickr photo courtesy of racoles Note from Beth: This week I've been researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements with others and invited guest blog posts on this topic. Five Stages for Social Movements by Training for Change. The 5 Phases of a Movement by Brian Reich of Thinking About Media.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Filed under photos , unplugged. Tagged photos , walk. Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Woodland walk Took the family on a magical walk yesterday afternoon in Clevedon Court Woods. There’s nothing that compares to the majesty of trees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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