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’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. Here they are: My Three Rituals. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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Professional Nonprofit Build Facilitation 117

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Stephanie Hendrick, this year’s keynote speaker, is an author and multi-business owner who learned that a common theme in any field is mastering the mundane. Interactive Workshop Facilitator Jennifer Proctor, Senior Consultant, ,orgSource will guide a discussion centered on Collaborative Activities to Discover AI-driven Solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

If you uncover misalignment and/or a lack of clarity, consider holding a facilitated Leadership Alignment Intensive process , designed to get your team rowing in the same direction. There are techniques for low effort, high value content sourcing from the wonderful people you work with and for. How do we do it? Why do we do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2010

For me, one of the joys of the publication of Networked Nonprofit co-authored with Allison Fine is seeing people in my network reading it and discussing. I’ve never met Joitske Hulsebosch face-to-face, but we have collaborated and learned together through the wonders of the social web from US to Holland. technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. This technique is simple. You can practice these exercises alone or with your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

Creativity: How do you keep creative and generate new ideas, both individually and working within an organization. It is so easy to just do the same old thing all the time, but there is some discomfort in creating something new. I want to explore the methods and techniques for optimizing creativity and applying it your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. Yesterday, this tweet from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart got my attention! Distraction is still a problem and we need to need to find coping methods. Or a combination? Mindfulness'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog.

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Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Journal 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising).

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Change Build Social Facilitation 115

Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Navigating Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD) and Data Restatement: A Comprehensive Guide Strategies for efficiently managing dimension changes and data restatement in enterprise data warehousing Imagine this, you are a data engineer working for a large retail company that utilizes the incremental load technique in data warehousing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

This workshop will share strategies and techniques for changing your nonprofits culture to be more agile, training other staff to be social to scale, and managing your nonprofit’s c-suite and board. The workshop will share tips and techniques for culture change, training, and adoption.

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Interaction Nonprofit Social Media Measure 105

Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

According to John Medina, author of Brain Rules , we retain 10% of its information three days after reading text. Remember, different types of data require different visualization techniques bar charts for comparisons or line charts for trends. Not sure what data visualization technique to use? Thats a big jump.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

Professional 92

Professional Nonprofit Journal Facilitation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. Will Coley , comes to the topic understanding how activists and activist organizations are using the techniques as part of their content and engagement strategies.

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Content Nonprofit Technique Brain 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. It keeps you from being creative, stops us, but here is a technique to get past it: The failure bow. It helps us come to terms with mistakes and clear us for learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Target the right level of authority: This means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. To share techniques and low costs tools for data visualization that nearly any user can begin using quickly. Amy Gahran, CNN Journalist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Start A New Professional Journal(s): For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal(s), using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Reflection Professional Facilitation Nonprofit 73

Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Using pandas read the two data sources: Image by the author: custom_master.csv Image by the author: client_profile.csv Basic Data Cleaning and Manual Mapping When dealing with large datasets, every factor that might affect the accuracy of mapping needs to be considered. 123 Mian St and 123 Main St) and shortened addresses (eg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. More about the book here. The book is available on Amazon.

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Nonprofit Social Media Amazon Museum 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Both by authors with first names of Brian. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it There are two excellent books that talk about this in the context of running an organization and addressing social issues – and I plan to review these in more depth next week.

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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’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. ” They will ask is it time to order the flowers? They will give the technique a formal burial and eulogy.

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Learning Impact Nonprofit Culture 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work.

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Foundation Giving Miami Train 107

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Expanding to meet global need brings a number of new challenges, including collection development for new audiences, gaining author and publisher permissions for worldwide distribution of materials, and forming partnerships with organizations that can spread the word about Bookshare and manage membership and customer support outside of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

It is also important to target the right level of authority. For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. Development. I do this all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Techniques for More Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques. An example is Kim Jong-un.

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Participatory Nonprofit Leadership Skills 119

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. Year in Review.

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Facilitation Instructional Design Teach Technique 50

Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Platform Specific Tools and Advanced Techniques Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash The modern data ecosystem keeps evolving and new data tools emerge now and then. Image by author It also might be a datalake in the center and it depends on the type of our data platform and tools we use. Image by author. Image by author.

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Data Analytics Open Source Literacy 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. I've encouraged each of the winners to Tweet to the authors. Next Tiny Steps.

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NGO Social Media India Reflection 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix.

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Results Data Nonprofit Social Media 95

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. Beth Kanter is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits.

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