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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

This year SXSW is offered something new: workshops on a wide range of topics from some of the top people in their industry. I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2010

I first met Joitske back in 2005 through Nancy White’s online facilitation workshop. We had a lot of sandbox time to explore tagging and other emerging web 2.0 techniques all over the world. .&# Joitske is an expert in change management and technology adoption and is a trainer who was taught web 2.0 technologies.

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APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? I love this question.

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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

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? I love this question.

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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. Thanks Heather for a terrific workshop! Tags: Presenting Training Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She gave a brilliant presentation that shared the story of footing binding in China and how using a networked approach and network weaving techniques, they were able to change the practice in a decade. . She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. Tags: network weaving.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Among other things, I led a workshop on "social objects" --artifacts and exhibits that inspire people to point, discuss, snap photos, and generally share their experience both with friends and strangers. There are two parts to the workshop: Social Object Hunt. Tags: design participatory museum. Where would you like them to be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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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. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

One of the techniques I tried was “conversational fundraising&# – which was less about the ask and more about having a conversation with people that might lead to donations. Tags: Promotions. In my own fundraising, I am always very conscious of asking too much and annoying people. And that’s just October!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

I've taught webinars and workshops on how to design and deliver effective training sessions and have written a few blog posts on training and presentation techniques. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story. Tags: powerpoint. Andy is a master at storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Here's the description: Join Beth Kanter who has been teaching nonprofit technology workshops for over 15 years, both offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki. What are some tips and techniques? How do you scale?

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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. Tags: wearemedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. Tags: social media. CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. The first session I co-lead with Katrin Verclas which was a look at social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

I attend a lot of conferences , but mostly as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, or panelist. Wendy Harman was the inspiration for workshop curriculum on social media listening skills. Showing Results: This method is for those have been applying listening techniques and want to track results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the annual Community Media Workshop: Making Media Conference where I gave a keynote last year. Secret Sauce: Chicago Workshop Final Slides View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. I taught two workshops ( notes are on the wiki.) Tags: listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a mini-workshop at the Director's Institute for the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network in Sacramento. I started with a variation of of the human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Tags: social media technology training.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. tags: arts ). Why It is Important ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Techniques for More Engagement. Someone said to me during a workshop a few weeks back – it really sucks to log into Facebook and see a two-star post quality ranking. This prompted me to post a question on my wall: How many of you Facebook Page admins notice your post quality ranking every time you visit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). This online workshop is ambitious - it runs over five weeks and includes virtual field trip and an experimental lab where people will get practical experience with the new web tools and how to integrate them into an existing community of practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

It makes me think of the clock technique that Nancy White taught me during the recent online facilitator's workshop. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech People could reference the page to visually see the group and get a reminder of time zones. Other ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. Tags: listening. List 3 specific sub-topics or related ideas 4.) How will we know if all of this is making a lick of difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

I participated in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop last fall where one of the participants was the thoughtful Nick Noakes who is the Associate Director for the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching at a university in Hong Kong. " He talks about the difficulty in removing the "geekiness."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

1 : Blogging Community/Community Blog - Basic Definitions This post was my reflection after taking a fabulous online workshop with Nancy White that included a link to Steve Shu's post and a question about "Can Community Blogs be facilitated?" Technorati Tags: digital_divide , blogging_communities , net2 , nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". builds network as it needs it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. So they used the technique of “OH&# or overheard. Everyone was given a piece of flip chart paper and magic markers when they arrived at the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

   Geoff offers some time management techniques for social media strategists or what I'd like to call " Social Productivity " (I'm developing a workshop on that one.) Quoting some notes from a workshop presented at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp by Colin Delaney of ePolitics and Laura Quinn. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. Deborah Finn was a participant and shared some of her thoughts here.

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