Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

There was a slowness to it that we don’t have with digital photography (perhaps because the slide film was expensive and we didn’t want to waste film). It gave me some reflection time away from the daily fast-paced, always moving forward world of social media. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

To learn more about how you can use email marketing to support year-round online fundraising, Ive uploaded my slides to Slideshare. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!):

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’ve been part of the Salesforce community for a while, you’ve certainly heard of Trailhead — the fun way to learn about all things Salesforce. Map out your strategy: Literally, draw your map of content and audiences on paper or a slide. Post about your favorite badges in the Trailblazer Community. What’s next?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2013

In a tightly integrated community like ours, social media use requires special consideration. Slides (coming soon). Blog post reflections. Location : King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Topic : A Beginner’s Guide to Social Media. Related Links : KAUST. Course listing in Acadox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. One of the benefits of taking this approach is that it shifts the instructional design from sage on the stage to learning in the community. It also helped me discover an authentic example of social media for social good - WildlifeDirect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. Others will simply focus on the networks that have the most impact on their community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 30, 2010

They both have lots to share and are always looking for ways to contribute back to the community. As such, I knew that their book would be a great resource and part of what makes it so is the inclusion of reflection questions for every chapter. Review the slides below for an overview and introduction to The Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. It’s a huge group: two billion worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Kathy Brennan, Research and Evaluation Advisor, AARP gave primer about developmental evaluation – what it is, how it is applied, how it different from other methods, and why it is useful in evaluating complex systems projects. You can l isten to the video or view her slides here. Here are my notes and takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

” This isn’t the first time the nonprofit community has been screwed by using free tools own by corporations. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated. ” moment. I tend to do this one or two times a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. I said yes.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. Here are our slides and Ellen's handouts if you want to learn more. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2011

Today's tip: meet, mingle, and get to know the members of this awesome community! Reflecting this event's unique nature, we call it the "Science Fair" so that everyone realizes it's an integral part of the NTC and not just another boring exhibit hall! It's also the setting for the conference's Opening Reception.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Our panel included Free Agents Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed, along with reps from Red Cross, Save the Children, and Common Ground Communities. Laura Lee Dooley captured this blog post about the session , plus you can find my slides all the links and other resources here. Click to see full size image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel – Beth's Blog – Beth has a great round up of links and reflections from our sxsw session called Crowdsourcing Innovative Social Change. Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well. Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

How do you develop programs that are responsive to your community in a meaningful way? How do you find out what's important to different communities, and how do you change your plans based on their needs? So we've started a new committee called C3--the Creative Community Committee. Six goals for MAH community programs.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. They talked about community building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't?

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on. Moving to Zoom, the simplest way to adapt would be screenshare my slide deck. Over the past year, I’ve run many meetings or course sessions over Zoom.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ Chicago 2022 was a brand-new opportunity for the Salesforce DevOps community to connect and share expertise at a designated conference. This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology.

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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. Be sure to check out the Technology for Communities wiki too).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. 09 was the first version I used). No problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

The learning in public (slides and resources here ). During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. These are here: Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

Without constituents, your nonprofit organization wouldn’t be able to positively impact your community and drive your mission forward. Thanking your donors reflects well on your organization for a number of reasons. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show. A site page dedicated to recognizing donors.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

This post recaps these sessions, provides my slides, and shares what I learned at the conference. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. Download my slides here. Download our slides here. Leary (NRG!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Pause for reflection time before next reiteration: How to improve results? In researching the ROI Chapter of the NTEN book, I intervewed some staff members from Legal Services community. There are a couple of bonus slides in the deck about how to use metrics for podcasts and video. Document on the fly. Test and tweak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Ironically, it was my post “ Reflection on Networked Professional Learning &# where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes. It prompted deeper insights about at topic I’m interested. As Louis Gray suggests, it offers relevancy and community. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). I have a long history with the arts community in New York. Some of my creative work in technology training was done during my decade plus two years working with the New York Arts community. Many, many memories. See the photos here.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours. So on the next slide, you can see we partner with more than 500 nonprofits annually worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I posted my slides and notes on my blog. Some interesting questions and reactions in the chat during the Webinar that I wanted to answer and reflect on further. You must be in tune with your social web community if you want this to work. Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. I wish I could see you all because so much of what we do in this work is building community. Here we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are many learning theories and can be categorized in different ways: External: These theories take into account self-learning and learning in groups. This includes behaviorism and social learning or peer learning, communities of practice, and connectivism. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. Both events had their share of clunkiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Danielle Brigida has posted an excellent slide show about her work flow as the social media person for the NWF. In other words, your content reflects the community. I like her point about listening is actionable!

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