Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Technology Changes, People Don’t. And, that through this comes learning and insight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. The organization's goal is to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers, in order to advance effective social justice philanthropy. The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy.

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MARCH 14, 2012

This is a terrific write up of the session I presented on “ Learning in Public “ Bridge Building or Trust Busting – a Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki. – Guest post by Stefan Lanfer.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Why Social Media? Citizen-Powered Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" He also pointed me to this reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In my last reflection, I talked about balancing participation on home base and outposts. First, on the wiki's top page, I have include a "What We're Working On Right Now" (see here ). Photo by one2c900d.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

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 used this metaphor to talk about the importance of having both the strategic view of social media as well as the hands-on experience of the tactical and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Hawaii Social Media Game View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate. Not every social media tool will work for every project. tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. I have read a lot about these methods , but you cannot really under it until you experience it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

David Wilcox wrote his reflections on our workshop in Birmingham two weeks ago while stuck on a train enroute back to London. I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. He's spot on. Once I get in the room, we throw away the slides.

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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. Not unlike where you start for a communications or social media strategy, eh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Via the On Social Marketing and Social Change Blog summarizing an article in the NYTimes. Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. social software,???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems.

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JUNE 5, 2009

8 Principles for Using Social Media Effectively View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness. I learned a lot about the network approaches and was particularly interested learning a bit more about social network analysis and mapping processes.

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JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far. s feelings of ???responsibility???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Social Engineering the Small Groups. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps. If not more so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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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. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program. Learning in public requires program staff to feel safe – not necessarily comfortable, but safe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Social Media Lab: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit. As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. There is also a social learning component.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. Preamble: reflection on the role of tech steward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 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 technology related.

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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. Trainer Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2008

I stayed up last night for a discussion about fundraising on social networking sites. Nancy White asked some great questions that lead to some good reflections. Would writing about what I am learning about social fundraising (as well as hitting up people for money) would that alienate at some point? Where's that line?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

Yesterday, I facilitated a session called Mapping Social Media to Strategy. Here's the description: The session will share an overview of why the sequence listen, learn, and adapt is critical to implementing a successful social media strategy. How to listen to improve the results of your social media strategy implementation 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Social Change. Social Enterprise. The final list will be available over at the client's workspace on Omidyar, a wiki-like space. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process. Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. The book, written in 2002, does not address social media and change management or even technology. Think about some of the changes reflected by this typewriter, manufactured by E. I was struck by his reflections of the Web2.0 Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A couple of teasers in the play by play that will make me definitely go and listen to the entire podcast with ear towards reflecting on any insights about working wikily : Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple. Wikis as a natural solution for unstructured information. Wikis Are Now Serious Business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

After I wrote up this summary on my blog, How To Get Started Thinking About Online Peer Learning Communities for Nonprofit Professionals , Mitch offered to write a guest post reflecting on peer learning online and online communities. Here, he discusses the importance of social infrastructure and facilitation while building online communities.

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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. " We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

One series of posts that he did that I love are his one-page guides like this one about wikis.) He tweeted this morning about some quick reflections on social media ROI: To know ROI of social media compare to paper base outreach. Printing 1000 leaflets doesn't mean 1000 leaflets get read.

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