Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

Akilah workshop. After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. I got an opportunity to do a workshop with second year students during their IT class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Social Media Master Class. The overall goal was to provide participants with a combination of insights and practical tips to help them be effective. This face-to-face master class and mini-workshops will be followed with a smaller peer learning group that will meet regularly to compare notes as they put the ideas into practice.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2019

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Update & Review My Work-Life Balance Plan: In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. The stress of the pandemic prompted the biggest demand for workshops and speaking engagements, even though these engagements were online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. During the class, Dean Nancy Smyth related the idea to a social work technique called “ Motivational Interviewing ,” using in addiction interventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. One design important instructional principle for trainings and meetings, whether online or face-to-face, is to start off with a fun way to ease into the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Update & Review My Work-Life Balance Plan: In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. The stress of the pandemic prompted the biggest demand for workshops and speaking engagements, even though these engagements were online.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The list of headaches and hassles you’ll encounter is pretty much endless: Renting a venue, hiring a caterer, soliciting silent auction items, signing up and training volunteer event staff, etc. Educational Workshops Offer low-cost workshops or classes on topics relevant to your cause, with the funds coming from class fees.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. In the mid-1990s, Glenn met with his friend Barbara Altman to share his idea of opening a computer and career training center in Honduras. They expanded classes to Baltimore in 2019 after winning CAD $1 million in the TD Ready Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I’ve looked to meditation and reflection practices before – in fact – last year during a guest instructor appearance in Jennifer Aaker ’s “Power of Social Technology&# class at Stanford, I had the class do a reflection activity that involved eating a Hershy kiss.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Kate Elliott, Training Administrator, Planned Parenthood Arizona. Providing formal training to staff and volunteers has obvious benefits for an organization, individual staff members and volunteers. For staff members and volunteers, training is a means of professional development many are eager to receive.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Thankfully, there are many free or inexpensive training programs that can help you polish your technology skills. TechSoup's Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. Learn how to implement and conduct effective tech training for your nonprofit or library staff! Register now for online training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Eastern) for this free webinar to find out how to make your training job easier, more fun, and an even better learning experience for your participants. Learn to use a lesson plan to organize your workshops and facilitate sharing with your co-workers and other organizations. Space is limited so reigster today! read more.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I had the pleasure recently of teaming up with my fundraising bestie and copywriting guru Julie Cooper to host an “ End of Year Appeal Writing Made Easy ” workshop. A whopping 96% of these people are doing it themselves and only a handful of them may have any training as a fundraising copywriter.”.

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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. One thing I have learned working mostly outside of the US is to start a training by honoring a local tradition. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. Connecting Up Master Class.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Training and Workshops Your nonprofit can offer training programs and workshops where members enhance their skills and industry knowledge. Look into what kinds of workshops you can offer in-person, and which ones might work well as an online webinar. Here are three different ways you can do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, “ Take Me To The Social Web.” May 13, 2013: Half-Day Workshop.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Bellevue, Washington: Microsoft Azure IoT Workshop. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Boston, Massachusetts: Community Class — Intro to Design Thinking and Prototyping. Burlington, Vermont: Project Management Professional Training in Burlington, Vermont.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds. For the previous 25 years, the CEO, a social worker by training, had built a large board that, over time, had become unwieldy. Takeaway 3: The board needs training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. These were workshops at Cause Camp , Global Giving , and the Hartford Foundation. I did not have a remote audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers. Year in Review.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Cooking or baking class. Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. For students who need an extra boost to make it through their classes, offer an online tutoring service as a fundraiser for your school.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

We were able to design virtual workshops in a matter of weeks, whereas under normal circumstances, it may have taken us months. When we went virtual, I worried so much about being able to keep connected and help the nonprofit staff members who attended our in-person trainings. Tens of thousands of participants across the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is esse ntial to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether your organization is training its own staff in nonprofit management, or teaching others technical skills, TechSoup can help you get started. Train on Over 150 Products with Atomic Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? 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. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions. Here’s what I learned.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! How did Cambridge Community Television get involved with social media and social media trainings?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The tactics can include workshops , master classes , coaching , expert consultants or peer learning. Training Design'

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2020

However, as with any successful endeavor, it takes formal training to advance potential and the social sector is no different. After years of acknowledging and working with more than capable school-aged youth while juggling a career as a test engineer in Tucson, Arizona, he is now a proud graduate of the MNLM Class of 2019!

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

If someone at your organization doesn’t have the expertise and experience to make such workshops and learning experiences happen, invite someone into the conversation who can provide such perspectives. Attending workshops where leadership can learn about recognizing bias, DEI terms, and more. Encourage Staff to Get Involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. After Action Review Guide – [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 9, 2018

These job descriptions will be great tools during recruitment and training, helping your team set clear expectations with volunteers. You can do a background check, research their online presence, and even require volunteers to take an intensive workshop or class before coming into contact with your clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

The platform provides training and open-source tools and resources for climate activists, links activists to local groups and campaigns, provides a platform for rapidly evolving content, and also supports a Coal Tracker as the group seeks to end the reign of dirty coal in Africa. University of Massachusetts Amherst. About the Author.

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