Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question come from a fundraiser and donor who wants advice on how to handle poor donor engagement: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m a fundraiser, but also a donor. — Charity Clairity Have a question for our Fundraising Coach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. How do you deal with deadline stress?

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Tips Exercise Brain Facilitation 73

AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very make up of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Virtual Brain Storytelling Audience 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” ” As the word cloud appears on the screen, we discuss the triggers and reactions. Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

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Professional Management Journal Reflection 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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Training Train Audience Activities 103

AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Virtual Brain Storytelling Audience 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! If you ask open-ended questions, you typically only get criticism. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer.

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Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? As the discussion was unfolding, Jonny Goldstein was capturing it. You need to engage the whole brain in learning.

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NTC Conference Learning Experiment 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations? There were two framers who raised a question or idea related to the theme.

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Global Structure Model Network 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. The session began with an informal discussion between Andrew Means and Bob Filbin and Jeffrey Bladt — who are full-time data scientists for a nonprofit.

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Conference Data Exercise Reflection 50

Forj

MAY 25, 2021

But, before we dive into the five features that you should seek in your next CME LMS, let’s discuss why you’re seeking a new solution to begin with. Facilitating CME in a manner that empowers all interested members to engage with it can be a task easier said than done if your CME LMS isn’t an impactful solution.

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Associations eLearning Module Course 36

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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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? This approach is not about counting dollar signs, but about feedback loops which is discussed in Michael Quinn Patton’s new book on Developmental Evaluation. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 121

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

One-plussing” can facilitate the process of taking a good idea and improving upon it. But it’s during the walk around the block or staring out the window of the Acela to New York when we can thaw out the brain freeze and go for the breakthrough. Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012 – guest post by Victoria Dunning.

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Seattle Journal Children National 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Create Device Free Zones.

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. In painted wood and styrofoam, it was a masterful and whimsical refusal to answer that pesky question of whether games can be art. Questions and Discussion.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

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. More importantly, this experiential learning — not just discussion. Flexibility.

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Teach Change Exercise Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues.

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Last Friday, for the first part of the Matrix Group holiday celebration, I hired a facilitator to run a group discussion about the year we’ve just had. Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021? Reading a lot.

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Reflection Environment Brain Test 246

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

The first panel discussion was called "Managing the Stream: Living Consciously and Effectively in a Connected World" that featured Bradley Horowitz (VP, Google), Chris Sacca (Advisor Twitter), Greg Pass (CTO, Twitter), and Roshi Joan Halifax (Upaya Zen Center). He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Blackberry Attention Mind Google 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?” Scarcity captures the mind.

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Nonprofit Culture Practice Policy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Role Playing Simulation For Making ROI Argument: Many nonprofits are often faced with the question, “What the value of social media&# from senior management. In Beirut, we did another version of this by adding a ball to toss to each other while we were discussing a topic. These were posted on the board when they were finished.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. In workshops, it is important to have a full group discussion about people's concerns about social media and a discussion about organizational readiness. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

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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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. But, the brain fog has started to fade. The group organizes and selects the topics and the learning is through discussion, peer to peer. The back story is here ).

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Blogher Phone Mobile Video 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. Flickr Photo by udithawix. These skills are: self-management and attention training.

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Product Nonprofit Attention Skills 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. The conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face!

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Louisville Reflection Conference Game 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

When I do not awaken to a song running through my head, I attribute that to my brain watching over me by not allowing The Joker to slip into my subconscious. The goal is to facilitate the progression of donors to whichever lever is closest to their ultimate gift—whether that is $25, $25,000, or $2.5

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Giving Analysis Gift Analytics 21

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. Elizabeth: Yes. I’m Steven.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. In painted wood and styrofoam, it was a masterful and whimsical refusal to answer that pesky question of whether games can be art. here was a kind of proof that you don't have to choose."

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

I’m Steven, I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s little discussion, as always. It might be a little tight because we’ve got a lot of good stuff to share with you, but ask questions anyway because we might be able to get to your question offline as well.

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Video Giving Gift Donor 130