Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. 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. What gave me joy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Meico Whitlock (Mindful Techie) leads the NTEN Board in a meditation meeting opener. 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. Here’s a write of this technique. Some of these were inspired by this tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. Large: Over 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Visualization Techniques. Takeaways. 18 Minutes A Day.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

How much : $400 (depending on timing and NTEN membership). There are parties thrown by vendors plus a larger gathering hosted by NTEN. NTEN programmers carefully choose their venues with accessibility in mind, and the whole event is planned with great attention to inclusivity. . Audience size : around 2000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! Leadership Technique: Leaders that do walking meetings can accommodate the many requests for their time. The slides and resources from the session can be found here. Sadly, we also heard stories of standing desks not being used!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Visualize On Paper: Over the past 10 months, I've made a return to paper and markers and using mind maps or visualization techniques to reflect, and plan my week or day.

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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

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Tim Arnold from Beaconfire reflects on the “Make it Mobile” session that he co-led at the 14NTC, and gives an overview about what “responsive” really means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”. Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Take Breaks.

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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 are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

In the first of a series co-sponsored by NTEN and Salesforce.com Foundation , I covered the integration of Google Adwords with salesforce.com. It delves deeper into the uses of salesforce.com campaigns tab, " Salesforce Campaigns for Nonprofits " There some kind words over at the NTEN Blog about my most recent screencast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January is a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. Making and Caring for My Soul from Marlowe Miller, Professor of English and Associate, UML Center for Women and Work shares the power of being creative as a stress reduction technique. Productivity.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Why would you reflect on how you feed people when you could just go feed people? At the NTC, she'll share her experiences at her session, "Evaluating Outcomes: Real Techniques for Measuring Civic Engagement and Technology Fluency " She spoke to me about it: Tags: Evaluation NPTech programs NTEN 09NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Next month will include NTEN's NTC. When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Take Breaks.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Your colleagues already know this, and eventually someone in a position of authority will reallocate resources to reflect this reality. We describe a number of techniques for identifying more or less effective Facebook tactics in our free ebook " Is Your Nonprofit's Facebook Page Worth It?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Pause for reflection time before next reiteration: How to improve results? In researching the ROI Chapter of the NTEN book, I intervewed some staff members from Legal Services community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NTEN and SalesForce.Com Foundation sponsored my latest screencast called "Leveraging New Audiences for Nonprofits" (using GoogleAdWords and SalesForce Integration). You can learn more about the partnership at the Salesforce.com Foundation site and the NTEN web site. And, now for some reflections on the screencasting process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. Maybe he share some reflections in the comments - like for example - about the making of the video which is quite good in terms of production values, although not glossy campaign video. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

So, thanks to NTEN , we offered prizes for participation free copies of books - either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0. Reflections and questions. Techniques like this can help build momentum. Some of the inspiration for this module came from Alexandra Samuel and her Bringing Your Community To Life workshop.

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MARCH 26, 2009

And now we have the marketing tools and techniques that reflect the personality of our organizations. Tags: NPTech marketing NTEN Newsletter maddie grant lindy dreyer web2.0 It's part of our mission and what we've been doing for years. That's a very good thing. social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

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. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

At the NTEN NTC conference this year, I did a session on data visualization for nonprofits called “ Picturing Your Data Is Better Than 1000 Numbers ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. ” This is a common theme for those interested in incorporating visualization techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups !

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