Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

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.) ” 4. Networking Opportunities.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? Starting Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Friending the Finish Line. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify.

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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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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

The main issue here is that socially conscious programming competes with the broader SXSW circus, including celebrity mainstages and a dizzying amount of vendors and exhibitors in the main hall (which is more like an airport hangar). In 2023, we’ll be providing Lessons in Building Momentum through the roller coaster of nonprofit life!

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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

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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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. I always create a lesson plan, a more detailed agenda, that includes topics, bullet points, timings, processes, and materials, even if I am the only one facilitating the class.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Recently, Robin highlighted an article by Jarche titled, “ Ask What Value You Can Add ” on Social Media Today. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Content curation is not about sharing links as you find them. What does this mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

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. See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). Katya Andresen, Guest Post: How to convince your skeptical boss social media has merit. Have a post?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

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. It resonated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. to test out some ways to encourage more people to use social media tools and online fundraising to give online, they did not know what would emerge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She gave a brilliant presentation that shared the story of footing binding in China and how using a networked approach and network weaving techniques, they were able to change the practice in a decade. . She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. So, decided to write this post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. This has been the most important lesson for me in shifting the way I work to a more networked approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo kindly offered to share this guest post to reflect on on the findings. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. Beyond the First Click is a project of Capulet, Change.org and the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace. You can download the complete report here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” While their answers and anecdotes were different, one simple technique or theme came across: “Stay connected to the source of your work.” That’s her cue to go out side for a walk, get away from the screen, and have some reflection time to think the impact of her fundraising beyond the dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

To identify ways to integrate “translated” Networked Nonprofit principles into social media training/coaching, as appropriate. I took a series of screen shots from social media platforms and had the participants discuss and identify what the best Arabic phrase or word. Why do we need it?

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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

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. More here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

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? What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? What have you learned and how will you incorporate those lessons into the campaign as it continues?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

using social media tools. Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. Social Media Readiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. It can help apply improv to our work in social change by practicing what it means to have a networked mindset. Not great as many of reflected. Collective Capital (@cocapimprov) April 6, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

And, now for some reflections on the screencasting process. Anyway, I've discovered some techniques in making the process a bit more efficient. You can learn more about the partnership at the Salesforce.com Foundation site and the NTEN web site. I also put together a wiki filled with links and resources to aid your learning.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium is to highlight current best practices, lessons learned from the field, and trends in effective nonprofit and philanthropic board leadership, as well as board recruitment and retention. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. Fundraising & Grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2011

There are two basic assumptions you've made lately that I think are flawed: the idea that (art) museums are fundamentally for a contemplative experience, and that techniques that distract from classical forms of contemplation are therefore bad. reflect the power and grandeur of their creators." encrusted on their walls.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Please make sure you stay connected with me at Kishshana Palmer across all social media. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. And so their job is a reflection of that. I was super excited about life and I was fresh to death in my Old Navy gear in the ’90s. And so I remember that so fondly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work.

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