Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. What to do? Have you ever had to do a room hack? What was your experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Last week, I was in London teaching social media strategy workshops for London NGOs organized by Social Media Misfits and keynoted Institute of Fundraising’s Future of Fundraising Conference. As many nonprofit professionals know too well, a hard-working but “tired” brain needs a few moments to “recharge.”

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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. Hearing from so many people. npsmpeer #sxsw. — Movement helps wake them up.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s the difference between seeing cook Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people on your to do list and seeing create guest list, send invitations, collect rsvps and food allergy info, create a menu, etc. Vanessa of today knows that this is merely what my brain wants to do and if I don’t feed into, it will pass, and I can get to work.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation. ” Content'

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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. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Diana Hoyt | Formula for Fundraising My greatest joy is teaching fundraising and helping nonprofits raise even more money using donor analytics and donor-centric strategies. Our key services are: Full Service Grant Writing, Grant Coaching, Training and Workshops. Most of all, we love nonprofit people. Madeleine St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made.

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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. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Sharon also gives a tip about how to adapt an “icebreaker” – a warm up activity that gets people thinking about the topic and is easy and playful and low risk – to the online format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The workshop lasted four days, with each day devoted to a specific theme: 1) Networked NGOs, Networks, and Change from the Inside Out 2) Integrated Social Media Strategy 3) Effective Practice and Techniques 4) Action Learning Pilots, Measurement, and Remote Support. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication.

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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. We had space for 25 organizations out of the 100 that applied.

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JUNE 13, 2012

Many of the conference workshops helped in making me more aware of how to become a technology leader, not only within our organization but in sharing what I've learned with 211s across North America. They recommended following interesting and smart people, listening and sharing and asking for contributions through guest bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I was seeking a way to combine my interest in technology and helping people. My work consists of interactive talks, workshops, trainings, and coaching. For example, with email, I think many people check it reflexively because of their device notifications, boredom, or having the false notion that busyness (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This is a draft for a listening curriculum that I will be doing for the first time as part of WeAreMedia Workshop later this week. I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2007

I used to teach gadget workshops for kids in museums. And so I would start every workshop by saying, “if something starts to smoke, unplug your battery IMMEDIATELY.” And so I would start every workshop by saying, “if something starts to smoke, unplug your battery IMMEDIATELY.” * you lose ? Why might this be?

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APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. Heck, many of them are intelligent, sincere, interesting people. Following a standardized curriculum to prepare for work in the museum field homogenizes the perspectives and skills people bring to museum jobs. And is graduate school the best entry path for people new to the field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. I asked him, on Twitter, if he thought his brain had evolved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. In 1998, I was teaching web strategy workshops in which I described a number of strategies for failure on the web. The people who are paying attention are the techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” How come more people don’t know what we do and why? I shared that I have the opportunity to figure out ways to help people understand the work that we do and why it’s important.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know both of you are super busy you’re speaking at conferences, and doing webinars, and workshops all the time, so it’s really a treat to have you. . Being in thorough and honest relationships with people seems to work better in fundraising. That was a good omen for things. Thanks for doing this by the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Some go into the trash (“I am never again going to ask people to take off their shoes as a way to break into small groups!”). Brain science and the science of learning are dynamic fields with constant advances being made. Learn from others (we love the Teaching Transgender Toolkit by Luca Maurer and Eli Green).

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

which people should. She’s giving workshops. The 280 people or whatever here also do. And recently, for the last five years or so, I’ve really moved more into helping people communicate more effectively internally and interpersonally, because that’s where I saw the most need. I say this a lot to people.

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