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APRIL 4, 2010

James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I said yes.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Most participants included CEOs of nonprofit institutions and foundations and have been working in the sector for decades. The group also included a couple of “next gen&# leaders as well as some experienced social media users in the nonprofit and foundation areas. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Training Design isconf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy. An example of this creative spirit was when one group created a new card on a napkin. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. Tags: training materials.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections. Thinking through a strategy requires more reflection and discussion within the organization and some level of experience with the tools. We could have allocated more time for the hands-on tactical small groups. Set up a Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. We allowed people to move from group to group once they go their questions answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Social Engineering the Small Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. We covered some strategy points, but also had the group tweeting. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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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? Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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MARCH 14, 2013

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. We rotated groups and then came back together. 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

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. The classic technical glitch for me was doing a presentation at the Cloisters in NYC for a group of arts education teachers. That only works with small groups on the phone, fewer than 12 or 15 people, not 100. This was circa 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements.

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DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. Yes, one day was way too short and definitely small group interaction would also have been good, but there is next year! tag: [link]. Technorati tag: [link]. Flickr tag: [link]. Technorati Tags: globals

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

In the many years that I’ve been designing and delivering capacity building and training, I’ve learned being a guide on the side and helping to surface the knowledge and experience in the group produces far richer learning experiences. I always incorporate some sort of reflection.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Elsewhere in the session, I was incredibly impressed by: The new Dialogue in Silence exhibition, presented by the same group (Dialogue Social Enterprise) that created the incredibly successful Dialogue in the Dark exhibition. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research. Download my slides here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I started with a variation of of the human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. For this group, I felt it was important to ask about personal comfort/experience and whether or not they felt social media had any value for their agency. The group, for the most part, was curious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I'm working with a small group of Packard Foundation grantees on a social media lab where they are implementing different social media experiments. Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. Tagging photos. Tagging a person. Tags: facebook metrics. Status updates.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

tags: arts ). That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. Should Your Organization Embrace Social Media or Not? ??? Here's how.

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JUNE 14, 2010

James assembled a group of funders and the talented Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area , a local arts service organization to help implement project. The design for Social Media Peer Group Learning. They discovered a group of influencers won Twitter who were passionate fans of the company and have since enlisted them to spread the word.

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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. But because this group of organizations is working in a networked way, it means that not everyone has to do content curation at the degree as Bruce. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . Tami Simon offered a self-reflection on her technology use, she's a blackberry user, sharing her inner feelings on why she grabs her blackberry on a Friday evening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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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 ). I'll also be doing a field trip of the NpTech Tagging Community. I also got to meet an amazing group of local CoP professionals.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

GreenPeace Whale Trail asked their online visitors for campaign ideas and they got some great ones, like the Great Whale Trail, where they tagged whales and then tracked them using GPS/Google maps. Using the hard data points and sifting through qualitative data, she drives reflective conversations with staff that reap substantial insights.

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MAY 29, 2009

A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Network maps are "talking documents" or prompts for reflection and strategizing. builds network as it needs it.

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JANUARY 28, 2007

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. at the end of your phrase to indicate you're not finished.

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AUGUST 25, 2006

Conference or Event Blog: A group blog is set up for the specific event or conference. A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups.

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MARCH 26, 2009

As you get to know your community, a core group of highly influential people will get your attention. And now we have the marketing tools and techniques that reflect the personality of our organizations. Tags: NPTech marketing NTEN Newsletter maddie grant lindy dreyer web2.0 Isn't that what's it's really all about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. Tags: network effectiveness. How do work in a networked way and not get overloaded?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? They also want to avoid stories or perspectives that reflect hateful or offensive views toward other people.

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