Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I had to do it for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop. I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used. It starts today! " "How does it differ from others?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

During the summer, I’ve been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid. help people to relax. break down social barriers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Anna Jaeger and I will be participating in a very interesting online green IT workshop for nonprofits and foundations on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 from 10 a.m. The four hour event is open to everyone and is sponsored by NTEN and a new nonprofit green IT project that is forming called the Green IT Consortium (in which TechSoup is involved).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

What: NTEN is holding an online workshop on social media using a Choose Your Own Expert format. After an opening plenary by Beth Kanter, you'll choose one of 4 breakout sessions: read more. Tags: TechSoup.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

That’s right, the session selection process is open for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ! Voting will be open through September 30th. Workshop: Using Community Organizing for Effective Online Campaigns. We invite both individual activists and staffers in organizations to take part in this workshop.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This week, I participated in the Open Government Workshop , which brought together a group of leaders across the federal government sector. The sessions are designed to develop tactical recommendations for federal agencies developing their open government plans, which are due to be published on April 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Last year, I gave the keynote and a workshop, and this year they invited me back again. I'm going to be teaching two intermediate/advanced workshops, one on mapping metrics to social media strategy and the other on listening. (The Community Media Workshop: Chicago View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

My son, Harry, who is in video making summer camp, decided to make a little movie of me opening the book! Today, I taught a workshop in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz and supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Promotions book santa cruz workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I was also able to share the workshop wiki. We covered some strategy points, but also had the group tweeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In addition to comedy, Heather is a keynote speaker and teaches her unique style of interactive performance in “ unpresenting &# workshops. I took one of her workshops recently. Happy, sad, angry, etc can help open the conversation. Maybe its an opening story that sets this emotional tone.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

So when AAM and Blackbaud hosted Trends Watch 2015: Using Open Data and Personalization at Museums with Elizabeth Merritt , Michael Edson , and Stephen Watson , attending it was a definite no-brainer! In case you missed the event, here’s a recap of two of the top trends to watch this year: Open Museums and Content.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. Free workshop on topic of your choosing—Friday, April 24 in Seattle. He doesn't do workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. Let's take a look. Thoughts, leave them in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0 Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! Members of the organization asked us to provide a workshop for their seniors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. It's recently been updated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

" Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The Through the American Open Challenge - which runs from June 8 - 30th, projects will use the GlobalGiving platform to raise at least $4,000 from 50 donors.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2010

Lucky for us, our great pals Maddy and Lindy at Social Fish organized a Buzz 2010 breakfast with , who wrote , and who just released her latest book, Open Leadership. Everyone can be a leader in their organizations, and everyone can bring openness - through social media - to their work. Complete the NTEN openness audit.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Media: Telling stories that make a difference — Barefoot Workshops. Barefoot Workshops’ tagline sums up the transformative power of stories to create change in people and their communities, so clarifying the organization’s focus. Religion & Spiritual Development: Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors. —

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. What do you think? Check it out! Great slides.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

OneWebDay opens up techie conversations to everyone. Every time you host an event, convene a conversation, design a workshop, or anything else, invite those who weren’t on the email list, or at the last event, or part of your local community’s “social media club&# to come participate, contribute, and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. Most of the social media tools and tag lines did translate, although there isn’t specific Arabic concept or phrase for “user-generated content.&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Those interested were able to submit all kinds of great ideas for panels, workshops, and speaking sessions for the conference. Tags: events presentation 10ntc conference nptech ntc nten speaking voting. And, I always love getting to talk to people that I follow, read, and am in awe of from our sector IN PERSON!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 30, 2010

Our campaigns, services, programs, and even visions can and should be opening up for other collaborators – whether they are individual, free agent supporters or other organizations – to make the biggest, lasting change possible. Tags: resources book resource review the networked nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

Offering the option to donate in-kind resources opens up the opportunity for the entire community to participate in your organization’s mission, regardless of how much money they have. Don’t worry, you’re not alone—it’s difficult to put a price tag on things like logo creation or physical space.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. Follow us on Twitter: @socialbrite.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

What: NTEN is holding an online workshop on social media using a Choose Your Own Expert format. After an opening plenary by Beth Kanter, you'll choose one of 4 breakout sessions: read more. Tags: Consultants Online Activism Online Recruitment Online Seminar Social Networking Training Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

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 learned this from Andy Goodman -- I've taken his workshops and read his books. Tags: powerpoint. Andy is a master at storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In the afternoon, I did an interactive workshop on several themes in the Networked Nonprofit – culture change, simplicity, and transparency. The leaders of Alaskan nonprofits — most were open to embracing social media and acknowledged the “general gap.&# Tags: Conferences alaska.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks. Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention. We devote an entire chapter to it and the workshop exercise is based on this chapter. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Admirably, the Smithsonian has opened up their new media strategic planning via a public wiki. I admire all the people who are trying tirelessly to turn it towards more open, inclusive shores.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2010

Or you may be looking for a CMS platform for your next web site, and giving Drupal a hard look -- and not just because it's free and open source, but that helps, right? Tags: drupal NPTech NTEN. Series Sessions Include (all sessions held at 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern for 90 Minutes): March 9: Drupal Modules for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Note from Beth: As part of the research for our book, Allison Fine and I are looking at transparency and openness what it means for the way nonprofits do their work. Over the past few months, you could view the development of the strategy on their wiki , most of the work was done on a wiki that was open for anyone to read. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki.

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