Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. The maps are made by community members.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

APRIL 22, 2025

By integrating human-derived brain organoids with AI-driven analysis, were building a platform that better reflects the complexity of human neurobiology and improves the likelihood of clinical success. The company is a member of NVIDIA Inception , a global network of cutting-edge startups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Visualization Techniques. Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” Ecosystem map of capacity builders space at #penguinday pic.twitter.com/1fGVlLkH3K — Beth Kanter (@kanter) March 12, 2014. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. I suspect I’m not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Share Learning: To share learning, you have to intentionally hit the pause button and reflect. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? There are two different lens to think about network mapping. ” I don’t like the term, but it describes when you create a network map of your professional network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Finish the social media strategy map. Setting up a blog. Refine strategy based on listening first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

It doesn’t happen overnight and it takes daily practice. One efficient technique is to spend five minutes of your day at the end reflecting. What if you used that five minutes of reflection, to visualize and understand your network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff’s terrific overview post here ) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.). Afterwards, I facilitated a reflective conversation about the various ideas – what were the patterns?

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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. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Use Time Management Techniques. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker. This book will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone. Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. Connecting Up Master Class. Circle and Workspace in New Zealand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data. Brennan noted that when a program that is trying change a system is in this stage – the logic model is not the navigational star.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. Have any techniques to add to this list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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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. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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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's your strategy map? What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. They also created network maps for each country as well sharing examples using online networks using technology tools. I encouraged them to use gestures to ask me to slow down or rephrase if they didn’t understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database.

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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. Photo by Beth Kanter. Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

Prior research has investigated several important technical building blocks to enable conversational interaction with mobile UIs, including summarizing a mobile screen for users to quickly understand its purpose, mapping language instructions to UI actions and modeling GUIs so that they are more amenable for language-based interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

" She recaps what tools and techniques she has explored in order to discover how best to integrate all this activity into one's online publishing and online presence. It's inspired me to go back and reflect on how I'm (not too successfully at times) integrating all these techniques into my online publishing.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Zhurong rover used a technique called ground penetrating radar, which probed down to 100 meters below the surface. Rocks imaged along the transect contained many reflective layers that are made visible by ground penetrating radar down to at least 30 meters. NASA/JPL A Wet Mars The Noachian period of Martian history from 4.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 This drove traffic.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They are displayed, with additional information from local authorities, on Google Search and Google Maps , allowing people to keep safe and stay informed about potential dangers near them, their homes or loved ones. Real-time boundary tracking of the 2021-2022 Wrattonbully bushfire , shown as a red polygon in Google Maps.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

The tactics DEV-0537 used in this intrusion reflect the tactics and techniques discussed in this blog. Lapsus$ also claims that it only got around 45 percent of the code for Bing and Cortana, and around 90 percent of the code for Bing Maps.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

Here are some techniques to keep your pandemic walk routine fresh and the apps that can help you put them into practice. Footpath helps you map out new routes and gives you key information like elevation change along the way. It’s a nice, reflective experience with a diverse range of hosts. Find a new route.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

During my walk, I reflected on my participation last March in the annual National Day of Unplugging , a 24-hour digital detox when you don’t use technology, Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress. Take for example, when was the last time you consulted a paper map for driving directions?

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DataRobot

JUNE 10, 2021

To make the SMILE information useful for machine learning, we started by using the Morgan fingerprint technique. You can now analyze the new verbose extracted features using text-mining techniques such as bag-of-words. Upon further reflection of the embeddings, it’s possible to see clusters of particular molecules.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

A nonprofit fundraising plan is a road map designed to help you raise the money you need to achieve your goals. It involves the buy-in of multiple stakeholders such as your staff and board members, and maps out a path forward as you raise funds. This broader reflection will help set the stage for more targeted planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. The science part also includes having a basic understanding of network theory such as social capital and network weaving and how to apply it to your social media practices.

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