I first met Heather Gold when she did stand up comedy at the first Blogher conference in 2005. In addition to comedy, Heather is a keynote speaker and teaches her unique style of interactive performance in "unpresenting" workshops. I do a lot of presenting and am spending to much time writing bullet points, creating slides, and practicing what I'm going to say. I think that this puts a stop to creating conversation in the room. I wanted to learn some conversational mechanics -- so I … [Read more...]
Twitter Chats As Pre-Survey For A Training
As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I've been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects - from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. One of the grantees I'm working with is The National Summer Learning Association and I will be doing trainings at their national conference in November. I did a TwitterChat with them to help promote the conference, but in the process discovered it was even more valuable to help design … [Read more...]
Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People
Colorado Project View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Chip Conley was the keynote speaker at last week's Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp and one thing that he said that has been stuck in my head is: "You can have a job, a career, or calling" The latter, a calling, is when you can tap into an internal motivation that fuels and inspires you. It resonated. I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past … [Read more...]
Social Media Lab: How To Become A Networked Nonprofit
Social Media Lab: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit View more presentations from Beth Kanter. As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. It is a fantastic laboratory to take some of the ideas in the book and put in them into a practice. One of the themes in the book, The Networked Nonprofit, is the importance of doing … [Read more...]
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