NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Emily , who founded LimeRed Studio ten years ago, has a portfolio spanning business development, design, user experience, writing, marketing, and strategy in both online and offline programs for multinational corporations, nonprofits, universities, boutique businesses, and prestigious consumer brands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. Adjunct Professor and Guest Teacher: This past year I enjoyed my second year of teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2013

He was the first person to bring surfing to the Jersey Shore in the 1960′s – he was an early adopter, teaching himself how to surf and owning one of the first Greg Noll surfboard. This honed his appetite for frolicking in the hurricane swells that sweep the ocean in late summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

” I enjoy teaching workshops and presenting internationally because of the opportunity to learn from global peers. The campaign provides advice on how to self-examine and help detect signs and symptoms. Engagement with a purpose and knowing your audience. What would you add to this conversation about donor engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

For the past few years, I’ve been teaching a workshop called “ Leading on Social Channels ” for nonprofits that want to leverage the personal brands of their leaders. Nonprofit leaders need to use social media to drive conversations online and offline, influence others, and shape perceptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. The Sun Sets on 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

and several social-media experts—including Beth Kanter—we identified seven key lessons for nonprofits that want to use the Internet to evangelize their program model and increase their offline impact: 1. Keep it simple and concrete. is developing systems to recognize and reward those who are having the most impact both online and offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I’m bummed that I cannot participate this time around (will be traveling with my family, enjoying some offline adventures) but am already looking forward to the next opportunity! REGISTER HERE! The Format. Have access to experts and peers to answer your specific questions via live question and answer and backchannel chat. REGISTER HERE!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

This month''s theme is building community, on and offline - a perfect time to interview Bethany about her inspiration for working in nonprofit technology and more! We teach this. I used to help teach social media classes at Portland’s tech reuse and education nonprofit, Free Geek. Don’t focus on tools! We know this.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Offline activities. If your offline database tracking activities can communicate with your online system (whether through data syncing or old-school spreadsheet downloading and uploading) you have a great wealth of information at your fingertips. Again, we invited them to the garden party because they showed interest in gardening.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

For five days, we focused on teaching the NHRC staff to use the Martus software. To manage this, we recommended that Zonal staff use Martus in ‘offline’ mode (that is, not connecting to the server to back up data) until a reliable Internet connection was available.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Cutting Edge Integrated Social Media Strategies When: Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time. We have a limited amount of teleconference lines, so please take a moment to sign up now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

Use the Internet to get people to meet offline. The Dean campaign used Meetup to organize its offline meetings. The Organizing Game can be played online or downloaded and teaches door-knocking techniques. . * Create a local press and blogger list. * She sited research that found that 12 people is the optimum number for a group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. Greg Pass, CTO/Twitter, teaching new employees something called "Twittokinetics" and advises them to pay attention to what their doing, understand & own the problem & realize learning opportunities. If the first thing you do when you get up, is check your email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In 2006, the annual donation was a stretch for us … so we asked family, friends, and colleagues to donate to the Sharing Foundation in lieu of holiday or birthday gifts. Although she had to take off some time from school due to her illness, Leng Sopharath bounced back and graduated this year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes. That’s the theory at least.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. What needs are you trying to fulfill for yourself online that could be better met offline?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. He attended the Cambodian Blogging Summit and received the digital audio recorder to create language lessons for his students (offline podcasts!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Resources “>here ] My training craft and what I have been teaching in train the trainer’s sessions around the world – how you blend content with engagement, both online and offline. I was challenged when I walked into the room and saw a podium, two large screens, and microphones set up in the middle of a sea of tables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Erik Anderson, Donor Dreams Blog, shares his tips for being more productive online and offline and the tools he uses. If you gain some self-knowledge from looking at the numbers, you more apt to chance how you spend your time and be more productive.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

" In most cases, youth will think it's "creepy" if you talk about what happens online when you're offline. They actually go so far as to teach program participants how to use Facebook privacy settings to block program staff from seeing their personal information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. That often intimidates nonprofit folks (including me), but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are low tech tools and online (low cost or free) SNA tools and great resources like Marc Smith at NodeXL.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Look at most online and offline forums in our space, even outside of NTEN, and you'll find it's the accidental techie who offers helpful down-to-earth counsel. When we have a question ourselves, we tend to ask it in a constructive way. We're willing to experiment and test new technologies and ideas.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

And at 12 noon, veteran cemeteries across the country and over seas will adorn soldiers’ graves with wreaths in an effort to remember, honor, and teach. In 2007, the nonprofit was founded with a mission to remember fallen heroes, honor those who serve, and teach children about the sacrifices made by veterans and their families.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Before 2012, NEXT Worldwide mission trip participants conducted their fundraising through a combination of leading their supporters to an online designation form and by sending offline checks to their mission leaders. This required each leader to email each participant weekly in order to keep them informed about their fundraising progress.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

but there wasn’t an offline space for that. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. We wanted to created a space where people could get together and talk about games. Questions and Discussion.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Positive reinforcement is one of the best leadership development practices you can build into your movement, whether it’s online or offline, on a facebook page, newsletter, annual fundraiser or neighborhood events. Striving to be replaced also means rewarding and spotlighting the leaders as they emerge. We need organizations, like 350.org

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Your organization should measure how many gifts are coming in online versus other offline channels, such as direct mail or in-person events. We’ll teach you how to plan for your Luminate migration in this thorough post. Online Giving Rate. Read our tips for optimizing your Google Ads to learn how to get more from AdWords analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

So, our Twitter friend went offline and recorded a book in their Delhi studio! Passing it on – the book edition : We read about about a bunch of kids in Kolkata who went around with a van full of books to reach kids who didn’t have access to books and even went on to teach the kids how to read. Channels used: Blog, Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. " Donor Power Blogs describes the online/offline generation gap , although some members of the great generation have been spotted on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

I used the " getting to zero " and "getting things done" frameworks to teach people methods for being efficient with email. Is there a way to get an offline copy of your contacts and calendar - and be able to add and sync? The online resources are here. Holly from NTEN has a post "Is Your Email Managing You?"

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

It could even lead to dangerous situations if members are completing courses teaching outdated practices that are no longer widely accepted. Offline use with automatic sync. This could lead to a situation where your association’s learning business is seen as unreliable for members who are looking for the most up-to-date guidance.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. We have had conversations on and offline about the value of our blog series, and it seems as though we are becoming a little too didactic (fair argument).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Remember that most content is consumed and discarded, and so use content as a teaching moment, and a way to engage and involve your audience in your work. Engage Offline. Break up the story with headings, subheadings, and bullets, so it's easy to scan. When possible, integrate video, audio, and images to create multimedia stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Teaching Your Kids About Philanthropy. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Sharing Foundation Has Supporters in Finland. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Calling on the Twitterverse and Connie Reece Answers First. $10 E-Metrics Panel Presentation.

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