Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

You can check out the Community Voices group on the Social by Social community for videos, notes and other reflections from the event. After the small group discussions, we had volunteers from each group provide a short report back to the full room of some of the highlights or lingering questions that came out of the conversation.

Voice 102

Voice Reflection Conversation Digital 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. ask, “How have sales been going?”.

Reflection 64

Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Before focusing on workplace strategies and culture change, participants go through some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan. ” As the word cloud appears on the screen, we discuss the triggers and reactions.

Professional 113

Professional Management Journal Reflection 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Avoid any discussion of ideas or questions, as these stop the flow of ideas. The ideas can be captured on a flip chart or participants can write them down on sticky notes and post them on a wall. Once everyone generates their own ideas, they come together as a group to share their ideas and discuss them. Free-wheeling.

Facilitation 106

Facilitation Work Chart Technique 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The NTEN Book Club, organized by Lauren McKown and Kai Williams, hosted a video chat this week.This month they have been reading The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout and discussing it in the NTEN online community. Workplace Productivity and Well Being .

Product 110

Product Technique Nonprofit Method 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

That’s is the practice of working out loud and it has many benefits from helping productivity to encouraging reflective practice. It will help you understand when to use a pie chart versus a bar chart – but it goes beyond that. If you are working with data in any way, you need this book.

Network 134

Network Data Chart Case Study 134

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals.

Examples 120

Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 120

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. … Read More.

Tips 73

Tips Exercise Brain Facilitation 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. It is used in brainstorming because it speeds up the discussion. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. Peer Learning / Coaching.

Facilitation 121

Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2022

You’ll find graphics and charts illustrating each of the major discoveries from our survey. An overview of trends discusses these findings in greater detail, with a deep dive into the data collected, and some of our own conclusions about what these discoveries mean for fundraising in 2022.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Virtual Nonprofit Survey 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . The Playbook also discusses the skillsets that a nonprofit needs to use data successfully, both for staff and for hiring consultants or working with skilled volunteers. The Playbook gives you an examples.

Resource 105

Resource Practice Data Work 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

Poll 50

Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

That’s why you have to develop a fundraising strategy for your nonprofit that consists of a variety of different approaches, reflects elements like campaign strategies and budget planning , and helps your organization meet its goals. Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process.

Develop 98

Develop Calendar Chart Nonprofit 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

David Wilcox wrote his reflections on our workshop in Birmingham two weeks ago while stuck on a train enroute back to London. I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. He's spot on. Once I get in the room, we throw away the slides.

Reflection 50

Reflection PowerPoint Wiki Slides 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections. Thinking through a strategy requires more reflection and discussion within the organization and some level of experience with the tools. Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Setting up a blog.

Reflection 56

Reflection Wiki Instruction Instructional 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

When researching the book, we came up with a curated a list of our favorite technology wellness apps. But last week, I was honored to do a webinar for Whole Whale where George Weiner and I discussed apps. And that causes stress unless we reflect and analyze how we are actually using our time. I learned about a few more amazing apps.

Product 73

Product Lebanon Calendar gMail 73

fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You process lots of information, discuss, debate and brainstorm. You fill flip chart after flip chart with ideas. What if you had time to reflect, think and process between sessions? They may feel you are rushing through items without sufficient time for discussion. what issue is being discussed.

Online 52

Online Doc Group Chart 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. More recent books on these methods include Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo and Visual Meetings by David Sibbet (I took David Sibbet’s workshop on visual meeting facilitation and wrote up some reflections here.).

Facilitation 139

Facilitation Arts Pakistan Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

And while we discuss strategies for bringing self-care into the workplace or”We-Care,” we believe it is important to begin with the individual. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart.

Data 125

Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

There are different approaches to assigning people to groups and facilitating small group discussions from assigning to letting participants self-organize. Each facilitator’s “corner” has two pieces of flip chart paper on the wall which was divided into a two x two grid and a stack of colored sticky notes. Full Group Discussion.

Participatory 76

Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

Participatory 76

Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers.

Learning 92

Learning Seattle Knowledge Management Evaluation 92

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2021

Fast Times is written by four authors, reflecting on their personal experiences leading dozens of top global digital companies across all sectors. To achieve what we call digital velocity—the ability to set direction, learn, and adapt—companies have to know when to take it slow and chart a deliberate path and when to go flat out.

Germany 52

Germany Authoring Companies Digital 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2021

Fast Times is written by four authors, reflecting on their personal experiences leading dozens of top global digital companies across all sectors. To achieve what we call digital velocity—the ability to set direction, learn, and adapt—companies have to know when to take it slow and chart a deliberate path and when to go flat out.

Digital 52

Digital Learning Germany Global 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? What's the outcome? Observations.

Reflection 50

Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I might have them sit and discuss a small group exercise, but the results are on the wall for a standing debrief. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

Learning Theory 138

Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

You can find the archived recording and there is a follow up discussion item on TechSoup's forums. Click to See Larger Image I have been noodling around with this chart to show that insight comes before dollars, but if you measure and improve your initial pilot efforts over time, eventually the dollars do come.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Most really good proposals and reports often better reflect an organization’s capacity to hire a great grant writer or marketing expert than their ability to do great work. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts.

Problem 78

Problem Skills Proposal Grant 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

We filled 8 flip chart pages with close to hundred ideas. In the book, we discuss the many reasons for burnout in the nonprofit sector, but more importantly how to identify the symptoms because burnout can be very sneaky. We came up with a passion scale — from Passion Driven, Passion Waning, Passion Challenge, and Passion Depleted.

Causes 50

Causes Change Museum Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki.

Reflection 50

Reflection Laptop Wiki Artist 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And relating it back to the earlier study on the disconnect between funders and nonprofits on data – perhaps using it to have a discussion with a funder. I like the worksheet that allows you rate the usefulness and ease of collection for proposed metrics to collect. … Read More

Data 111

Data Measure Sample Seattle 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Donors also appreciate simple pie charts that show how much is spent on programs vs. operations—as long the chart reflects that at least 75 percent of your budget goes directly to programs. Neatly align all required fields for contact and credit card information, and double-space between fields and line breaks.

Donation 229

Donation Practice Mail Newsletter 229

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

ROI 103

ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well. We even discussed how they could incorporate one-on-one check-ins as walking meetings.

Training 50

Training Train Brain Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time.

Measure 98

Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

According to Berger, the social sector has not been able or willing to discuss this problem bluntly and openly. Berger says nonprofits have many reasons for not discussing their "results" problem openly, including: An unwillingness to "get naked and completely transparent about results" (as he put it, colorfully).

Social 67

Social Measure Charity Library 67

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

At the plenary panel discussion, a woman from the audience, an arts teacher, asked, plaintively, “Why do we have to justify the arts in school? However, the studies in measuring intrinsic impact were intended for “internal assessment and critical reflection purposes” (Brown & Novak, 2013). Art is also very subjective.

Evaluation 56

Evaluation Arts Story Impact 56