Very nice blog by Beth Kanter on how to maintain maximum productivity--oriented to nonprofit leaders but works for everyone I suspect,
These skills are: self-management and attention training. - See more at: http://www.bethkanter.org/ultradian_rhythm/#sthash.VhoZ7xoK.dpuf
Incredible post by Beth Kanter on integrating learning into nonprofits' work, January 2, 2014. Very grounded piece that links to excellent resources.
References Charles Jennings' framework of adding learning to work, embedding learning in work, and extracting learning from work.
Ends with these questions:
How does your nonprofit integrate learning into your work?
How do you as a nonprofit professional incorporate professional learning into your work? - See more at: http://www.bethkanter.org/learning-at-work/#sthash.CxcnOOYv.dpuf
A great blog on content curation from Beth Kanter from October 4, 2011. The focus on this is content curation for non profits, but is really for any content curation. She quotes and paraphrases Harold Jarche in that content curation is really seek, sense, share. Mentions that content curation is a great professional development tool and helps everyone keep up with what is happening in their field.
Great post by Beth Kanter on infographs, rationale for using them to array and understand data, how to construct them, and tools that can help simplify the process. Feb. 27. 2013
Blog post by Beth Kanter on best kinds of learning at conferences/seminars, 5.23.13
Excerpt:
It cites Sharon Bowman's book on Using Brain Science to Make Science Stick.
"The book offers several simple principles to incorporate:
Movement is better than sitting
Having participants talk is better than listening
Images are better than words for instructional aids
Writing is better than reading
Shorter is better than longer
Different delivery options are better than the same"
Beth's Blog explains why she uses both pen and paper and digital not taking tools such as Evernote. Beth recommends Alexandra Samuel's e-book ($3.99 on Kindle from Amazon) for how to use Evernote. It has convinced me to make Evernote part of my PKM toolkit. 1/30/13
Look at the "SOCIAL" acronyms--collaboration shows up in both. Guest blog written by Kriss Deiglmeier, ED of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford, appearing on Beth's Blog on 2/28/12.
Believe these help define WL Studio's raison d'etre.
Beth's Blog, June 4, 2012
Excellent ideas on leading a blog carnival to ensure that key blog posts and discussions are viewed by large #s of people. Think this is very relevant to Studio's work.
This blog post by Beth Kanter, January 24, 2013, has lots of considerations for working with nonprofits on social media adoption and use. Good links to other resources, too, including legal counsel-type guidance. Raises several issues for me including blending uses of social media (external, face forward kinds of promotional and educational sharing as well as learning with each other, for example) and legal angles to understand, and guidance for volunteers in addition to staff, especially in professional membership associations where members may do far more sharing than staff.
A social media policy for a np--professional membership association--with volunteers in addition to or instead of staff doing most of the representation for the organization would need to be explicated as well. We need to understand this thoroughly as we work with organization
blog post by Beth Kanter on social media guidelines, March 20, 2013, yet another practical body of knowledge to become comfortable with in working with orgs on using social media for learning, promoting, educating, inspiring, etc.
excerpt
Social Media Guidelines or what some call a social media policy summarizes your organization's social media goals, how staff will participate (dos and do nots), identifies legal and privacy issues, a social media work flow, and staffing needs.
Twitter has flipped our relationship with media. Instead of us pitching journalists, many have come to rely on our staff as sources and connect with them through Twitter. Many tweets lead to press calls.”
With almost 200 staff members engaging authentically on Twitter or curating news and information on their topics from different sources, it forms the backbone of a robust content curation strategy. Says Murphy, he and his colleague, typically curate the best 30-50 Tweets from the 1,000s by staff for the organization’s account.
Leading on social media requires nonprofit CEOs and their staff, even Trustees, to master basic digital communications skills that allow them to engage directly with stakeholders as themselves, in their own voices.
Nonprofit leaders need to cultivate and hone a personal brand that is human, yet professional. To be effective, it should be closely aligned with the organization’s goals, objectives, and audiences.
Nonprofit leaders need to use social media to drive conversations online and offline, influence others, and shape perceptions.