AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

We now provide you with our new breakout room feature within Workshops to facilitate concentrated conversations. So how do event organizers generate this boiled-down interconnectivity? Facilitating this relationship-building creates memories by slowing everyone down to be present in the moment. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Pick the Bot’s Brain AI powered chatbots learn from user interactions. Get the dialogue started at your organization. There are two types of chatbots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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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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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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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

Because when a nonprofit doesn’t treat me as if I matter, as I carefully and consciously treat donors to my organization, I get a little peeved. Here’s the deal: I’m a $5,000 donor at one particular organization with both a national and local footprint. Alas, too many organizations lose sight of this culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. You can co-create meeting norms with your team or organization by facilitating a discussion about the types of communication or collaboration behaviors that make for an effective meeting or collaboration.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An online website isn’t just an advertisement for your organization. Wouldn’t your organization rather spend a little extra money on a website if it means finding more donors and volunteers? If your organization maintains an active presence on social media platforms , include social media links on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. You can co-create meeting norms with your team or organization by facilitating a discussion about the types of communication or collaboration behaviors that make for an effective meeting or collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. Have you ever had to do a room hack? What was your experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Keeping their community engaged during COVID-19 was a big concern for the organization, so they wanted to offer a unique perk that aligned with their mission, felt authentic, and offered a value their supporters couldn’t get anywhere else. Offer incentives that align with your mission and feel authentic to your organization. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. Will Coley , comes to the topic understanding how activists and activist organizations are using the techniques as part of their content and engagement strategies.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. 5 Ways to Organize. Mastering relevant content marketing. In this post, I’ll explore the third strategy. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. The participants represent a diverse cohort of 41 women’s rights and social justice leaders from 18 organizations from 11 states across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Because I like to design for real world application, I often target more than one person from an organization to participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going.

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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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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! Use Learning Theory. to define the four levels of training evaluation. Formative Evaluation.

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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. What are challenges that nonprofits face when trying to create an innovation mindset in their organization to support social strategy and how to overcome them? Use abundance as frame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I also covered some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

In that case, the event organizer can glean more information from this data and provide it to marketers, sponsors, and speakers. . Gamification increases audience engagement by activating the rewards systems in our brains, increasing the odds that attendees will do the things you want them to do (i.e., Offer valuable, relevant content.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 18, 2018

“To eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research: to provide and enhance care and support for all affected, and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.”. Above is the mission of the Alzheimer's Association, but in what capacity do I serve that supports this mission?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 21, 2018

“To eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research: to provide and enhance care and support for all affected, and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.”. Above is the mission of the Alzheimer's Association, but in what capacity do I serve that supports this mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I guess I'll be grateful for that, as it was my being vocal about my displeasure over the timing of the conference that introduced me to many of the people in the organization I hold dear today. In fact, this year we have NTEN Organization membership so there will be four of us at the conference. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. and Chicago, Feeding America is the second largest organization focused on ending hunger in America. It’s a human rights issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book. Erika’s organization is a small to midsize arts organization, with six full time staff members and an operating budget of less than $1 million.

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