Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. by Eric Jensen. by Jane Bozarth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. What part of the workshop was most useful to your work? Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be attending and speaking a number of conferences and workshops this month. And, if that wasn’t enough, will do a mini-workshop on using content curation for professional learning. And, if that wasn’t enough, will do a mini-workshop on using content curation for professional learning. Conferences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset. Leadership'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. 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. EPIP Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. Most recently, I facilitated this workshop with staff at Lightful , a social media platform for nonprofits based in London where I am currently a senior advisor. It is one of many HR & Culture Slack Apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. What is your favorite journaling technique? Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. 2: Track Your Moods. How you manage stress triggers at work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Here’s an example where I calculated the mean, median, and standard deviation of the age of people who were served by a nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. While the workshop wasn't a handson video workshop, I did something along those lines in Cambodia - the curriculum is here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

The workshop started with a welcoming ceremony. We sat in the hall – two rows – the guests and the Maori. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. For example, with board thing, we all have control over organizing and taking notes on the “sticky notes” – and was interesting to see our emergent collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

I'm working on workshop curriculum and a presentation about ROI and Nonprofit Technology for Legal Services Conference. That brought me to the question of "What are effective ROI storytelling techniques?" What are your techniques? Do you have an example of a good ROI story telling? Photo by Sean Drellinger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. It seemed very inappropriate given that my host, Stephen Blyth , collaborated with Peter Sykes, CEO & Founder at Mangere East Family Service Centre and we held the workshop on a Marae.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The peer learning exchange offers one-on-one coaching for 16 state organizations that work on children’s health care insurance, monthly peer webinars, and a face-to-face workshop. This technical assistance design is a balance of expert support with peer learning and an intentional strategy for building the network’s capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. How about you? I did it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org. Everyone loves a good story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The project kicked off a year ago with a seven-day Train the Trainers intensive in Beirut, Lebanon for the in-country teams who would localize and implement the curriculum for five 3-day workshops that I designed. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. This conference was designed as an interactive, networking event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She gave a brilliant presentation that shared the story of footing binding in China and how using a networked approach and network weaving techniques, they were able to change the practice in a decade. . She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. So, decided to write this post!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. a focus on what you have mastered to "we don’t know."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? I love this question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

What tools and techniques do you use to create good conversations on your blog? Do you have an awesome example of a conversation on your blog or one that you've started elsewhere? I'm doing a workshop in Cambodia called " Five Steps to Khmer 2.0 This workshop was remixed from Associations 2.0

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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

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He provides you proven techniques, workshop processes, real-world case studies and examples and insightful observations from business leaders and his own career – which includes 20 years as an executive at IBM and CFO positions at Cisco and Red Hat. It is earned as much as it is defined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

The spreadsheet above is from the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County for an action learning project that focused on measuring the results of the recently launched blog. On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets. What do you find easy in terms of sense-making of your data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I presented a workshop at the Bay Area Video Coalition Nonprofit Institution. For example, they have a film called "That's A Family" takes a look at family diversity. (I The nonprofits in this workshop, for the most part, deliver programs and services that address sensitive topics.

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