Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week. I strongly believe that a workshop, panel, master class, or even a keynote that is interactive is more engaging, people pay attention, they make connections to what they already know and are far more likely to apply it.

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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. Their program includes about teaching artists. Does your nonprofit have a culture of wellbeing? How did your organization create it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. The above photo shows their conference room where they have staff meetings.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

And I imagine your organization has a culture of philanthropy in which everyone comes from a place of love. Alas, too many organizations lose sight of this culture. It’s critical for fundraisers to understand how donors feel – because most of philanthropy is feelings-based. I know you understand, and practice, this philosophy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. Do our processes include after-action or mid-action project reviews?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The rest of the day is spent learning about the local culture, including a walking tour of the city, visiting an historic site, and ending with a local cuisine cooking lesson. The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion. Here’s how Kanika facilitated the exercise.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Integrating IT into the organization’s strategy and culture should be the new reality. Help teams to feel comfortable with unfamiliar processes and learn to put a toe in the water of calculated risks by encouraging a culture where learning is valued and missteps, that occur in the process, are tolerated. It’s a choice.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. 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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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

We give it labels like “culture of philanthropy” and “donor-centered fundraising.” As the fundraiser, you must lead the way in developing a culture that supports this. And it’s the best way I know to convey to non-development staff how important their role is in facilitating philanthropy. Donor Experience . Brian Solis .

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Experiment Donor Strategy Philanthropy 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

Dave Gray : Dave Gray is a guru on the topics of design, innovation, culture and change. She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. Learning Organizational Culture'

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Staff who know the program, the people, and the culture well. Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

Here’s a collection of cheat sheets that you can use to teach any Nonprofit CEO almost any social media channel. Teach Them How To Be Twitter Literate: Your organization’s brand communication strategy will complement your CEO’s use of Twitter. Organizational Culture Professional Networking'

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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. Arts and culture. 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

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. His response: Looking: Observing human experience.

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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). This training will be the kick off for a peer learning group that Stephen will facilitate over the next few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. The exercise teaches empathy. Second, assign someone in the room to be the “bridge facilitator.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Now to be honest, as an adjunct professor and someone who has facilitated and taught workshops for over 25 years, I used to think that long, intense courses was the only way to go. How To Get Started With Walking Meetings This micro-learning course teaches you how to integrate walking meetings into your organization.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

List causes related to what you do, e.g. cultural institutions, environmental organizations, human services, journalism, justice and legal, education, international relief, veterans organizations, religious organization, etc.]. Do you have necessary facilitating internal systems, policies and procedures and controls?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. It’s also a sign that the employee and the manager are not setting a good culture of work life balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

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. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ. The ugly doll got passed in New Zealand and in Australia.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This connects internal resources, connects information, and allows UVM to form unified strategies through the conversations their new technology facilitates. “This has had a great impact on the effectiveness of our outreach and has amplified our impact in relationship building,” described Chu.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 19, 2009

Our meeting facilitator, Bob Glavin (longtime advisor to Benetech, teaches at USF and helps many other nonprofits and foundations), told me and the senior managers to not talk and to simply listen. We heard about how much our commitment to transparency was valued, among other aspects of our culture. And we did.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. Regulars teach newcomers how to behave and reward other regulars with close friendship. Facebook discussion board here.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. Questions and Discussion Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture. Tracy : Games are about subverting a system.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

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. Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. Lisa Bunker (@mutabilis) March 10, 2013. Movement helps wake them up.

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Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 101

Bloomerang

JULY 26, 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. Mastering relevant content marketing. Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Topic: How can we build a culture of accessibility? With 20% of the American population having some form of disability (and 40% of the Baby Boomer generation potentially developing a disability by 2030), being able to create a culture where all can access technology is critical. " - from Tom Dekker via email. Next Steps?

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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. We did this on Day 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

All of which will drive a clash of cultures that demands a new management approach. By ensuring everyone is heard, your teaching respect for all which can positively affect employee motivation and engagement. Question: When a leader helps to facilitate mentoring within his/her organization, what works best?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

All of which will drive a clash of cultures that demands a new management approach. By ensuring everyone is heard, your teaching respect for all which can positively affect employee motivation and engagement. Question: When a leader helps to facilitate mentoring within his/her organization, what works best?

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Management Mentoring Generation Attitude 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

When we teach history in the United States, we often skip the parts that are not so wonderful. We have projects where we facilitate educational conversation around the legacy of this history through movies. Companies can become part of a cohort that’s saying, “we have to contribute to the justice culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. The panelists included: Cindy Johanson , Executive Director, Edutopia. Matt Fitzgerald , Attention Lab Director, Upwell.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

All of which will drive a clash of cultures that demands a new management approach. By ensuring everyone is heard, your teaching respect for all which can positively affect employee motivation and engagement. Question: When a leader helps to facilitate mentoring within his/her organization, what works best?

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Management Mentoring Generation Attitude 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

where he discussed the crossroads of movements and campaigns and the need for an open culture. Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. Policy and research staff have a different culture than those of us who work directly with individuals on the group.

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