Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Reflection and Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

This periodic review pushes us to candidly reflect on what works and what we can do better with our grantmaking. Packard Grantees from Pakistan, with In-Country Team. We at the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program (OE) are in the thick of assessing and refreshing our grantmaking strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

It made me very happy to be teaching non-stop for almost two weeks. I’m always learning as I help others learn. Here’s a couple of reflections from my “trainer’s notebook.” Effective training is not about stuffing content down people’s throats, but giving them an opportunity to digest it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Training Design' Photo by Be Chandra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant. Measurement and Content Curation : These are two focus areas that I want incorporate into my social media training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

After taking a break, I felt a lot like Hank – I just wanted to keep on resting. But in the quiet and last days of 2012 and the reflective moments in the new year, it was time to face the new year! It was a time to focus on family and health (I had my gallbladder removed).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. Points of connection included: -Training. Working with NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Note to self: This is all needs an inspiration map to show the relationships and how the content of the meme has morphed.and some reflection on memes.) Nancy tagged Joitske , Brit , and me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

Last year, the Sharing Foundation's sewing school, a vocational training program, made over 1250 uniform sets and donated them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . I do a quick review of my training materials with a "US Centric Lens." What does that mean?

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JUNE 23, 2006

I didn't go (too expensive for my budget), but I had the pleasure of having dinner in Boston's North End with Nancy White (who was attending and leading a workshop on virtual meetings ) and a few other conference participants, including two fascinating women who work in the areas of collaborative technologies, online learning, and NGOS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. In reflection, after watching both Preetam's video and Thomas Wanoff's video of the game in process, I guess I should be so hard on myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Or maybe that in itself reflects an underestimation or misperception of blogs by nonprofits. Technorati Tags: CoP2.0 , CP2Web2 , net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit. But Steve's point was one of those "aha" moments for me. If the people that nonprofits need to reach don't generally like or use blogs, then why bother?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

InterAction Forum 2019 will feature the world's most influential and inspiring organizations, change makers, and executives from the public, private and NGO sectors. Attendees can choose from 80+ panels, 40+ training sessions, inspiring keynotes, caucuses, film screenings and lots of networking and social events. Research / @ARNOVA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2017

To date, Nonprofit Tech for Good has trained 49,000 nonprofit, charity, and NGO staff worldwide on how to succeed in online communications and fundraising. 2017 is the final year of free webinars for nonprofits ( view final schedule ). 8) Allow staff to link to their LinkedIn Profiles in their online bios on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops. One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. Workshop/Training Reflections. Charles Wells, JustGiving.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

They are the reflection of a larger trend of individuals interested in fundraising, organizing, and engaging on their own terms. Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO. And these amazing people aren’t outliers. Rise of Peer Influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs.

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