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.” The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. The practices are intended to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. My journal is not only an annual planning and goal-setting tool but also supports daily reflection as the year progresses. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Next practices in integrating social media for program delivery that leads to social outcomes. Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. We addressed two content areas: The art and science of crowd sourcing for social change. The maps are made by community members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube. A lot of his ideas connect to social media strategy best practices - for example the reiteration process and listen, learn, and adapt.

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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 provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos. Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You want someone who is open to learning and a good listener and can teach others network weaving skills. They think about the network structure, evaluation, communication, training, opportunities, and reflection. Maybe this conversations could take place on an existing community of practice ( Iscale ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day. The New Social Economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I also use it as a reflection as the year progresses. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

Geoff Livingston had a great suggestion of using the Google Reader closing for a moment of self-reflection and to pivot and purge what you’re reading. Learning from Failure – I’ve been following this more deeply for a year or so, but plan to look at the practical translation. If so what are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List. also use it as a reflection as the year progresses. Here they are: Rituals.

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Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Reflection 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Howard Rheingold calls this process managing your attention or “ Infoattention ” and it is what he has been teaching in his courses. I’ve been trying to curate content that offers ideas, tips, and resources to get past that ugly feeling of “content fried.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. I know in my own practice have made a conscious effort to go into any workshop with a goal practicing these. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This video-based coding academy teaches coding skills in a fun, accessible, and engaging format on YouTube and other social media platforms (for free!). Having diverse voices creates ethical experiences that reflect the values of all consumers. I also encourage teachers, parents, and family members to check out our Code Along series!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

To be successful in either teaching or learning, you have to slow down. I’m also interested in content curation and have been practicing it and teaching it, but want to take that to the next level. Step 2: One of Reflection for Each Hour (8 minutes). Bregman has a method for that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2019

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. for my journal or my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” As the part of my monthly review, I reflect on my themes and habits to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. The next exercise was about practicing awareness and openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List. also use it as a reflection as the year progresses. Here they are: Rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. .” Pass the Ugly Doll in New Zealand.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Each year at this time, I reflect on the valuable lessons my father taught me that have served me well in business and in life - including lessons I learned when I didn't at the time necessarily realize I was learning from him. He loved even more to teach. and "practice your instrument," served me well. He loved to learn.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This could be practice, memorization, motivation, or something else. An activity where learners must demonstrate understanding of the steps followed by feedback about their choices can help change a practice. Examples, questions, and scenarios that reflect what the learner will encounter. would be logged (on the same day).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

In my reflection post about the panel, I was musing about one of the points raised: ”How Can We Visualize Data If We Can’t Draw?” But I followed the advice of colleague Rachel Smith, who teaches visual thinking and facilitation : “Send your inner critic who says you can’t draw on a vacation to Hawaii.”

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Tableau

MARCH 19, 2024

Countless hours vizzing, a standout Tableau Public profile , and a graduate degree later, Karolina reflects on her data journey and what led her to her current role as a Business Intelligence Analyst at Schneider Electric. Winning Iron Viz: Student Edition is no small feat. What worked for me was joining different community groups.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

The progression contains four units : Understanding Yourself Leading Yourself Understanding Others Leading Others Each chapter within the four units provides you: Hands-on Exercises Reflection Questions Post-Exercise Observations "By the time you finish the book, you'll have competed 22 exercises." I still practice them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

The five practical steps of the research-based, pressure-tested The Ask Approach™ methodology are: Choose Curiosity : How you can awaken your curiosity to make new discoveries and unexpected connections. Reflect & Reconnect : How to take the right action based on what you’ve learned. Wetzler : Absolutely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Data visualization is becoming an increasingly common method of presenting large and complex data sets, but the principles of visual communication are not widely understood or practiced.” Describe your experience teaching in university settings? Any specifics for sub-disciplines?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Data visualization is becoming an increasingly common method of presenting large and complex data sets, but the principles of visual communication are not widely understood or practiced.” Describe your experience teaching in university settings? Any specifics for sub-disciplines?

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