Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

But, more specifically, project managers juggle various responsibilities and wear a multitude of hats—organizer, leader, motivator, facilitator, liaison, and driver—to ensure success. The broad answer is project managers manage projects. Projects have many components, such as team members, budget, timeframes, activities, tasks, and more.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

These questions should help you make sure you are recruiting people with the right skill sets who can represent experiences and voices that you may not have on your staff. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions. It is asking the simple question of how to improve a process, project, or even the meeting itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. These answers to these questions will help you plan the event content and develop a clear marketing strategy. .

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. The video calls have a consistent structure to them. Then I moderate a 10 minute Q&A session, answering questions that volunteers type into the chat box. It’s more important to pose questions and ask for volunteers’ questions.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2020

In fact, John Walker, an independent IT consultant with COTIQU Consulting in Australia, suggests associations should make two visits to the board: the first to present the business case and the second to discuss actual cost estimates. Notice that the first step doesn’t include a discussion about new system pricing. data issues.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you answered yes to any of these questions, chances are, you are working at an organization that is not primed for innovation - and, you’re not alone. Create cycles of adaptation within the organization that enable staff to experiment with need ideas in a structured way. Do you quote outdated statistics about your client population?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The questions: What do you hope to learn today? How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? Once upon a time x happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

But is there a way to make it proactive and more organized rather than reactive with no structure or organization? What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Post 2 : Facilitating Blog Discussions.

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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. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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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. Understanding: Methods for Analyzing Challenges and Opportunities.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But is this the right question? The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For many grantmakers, the answer to these questions is our own institutions. Think about the donor role as facilitator and the community as owner of the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Our goal was to draw on the collective wisdom in the room to discuss emerging solutions and strategies to the shared challenges of this new approach to social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. A network is more adaptive than an organization.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. These answers to these questions will help you plan the event content and develop a clear marketing strategy. .

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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? Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

4Change Chats are hosted on Twitter – Read “ Join the Conversation ” below for ways to jump into the discussion. Copenhagen is a galvanizing force that’s driving a lot of innovations and experiments – which means there’s going to be lots to discuss! Many of the questions we explore will likely also be applicable to other movements.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

It can also open up topics of discussion to broader audiences rather than being restricted to a geographical region. . This format is structured the same as in-person conferences. panel discussions. Sessions might have moderators to introduce speakers and bring up questions. What is a Virtual Conference? presentations.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It often includes powerful and well-connected people, and you’ll want to make sure that the meetings are well-planned and structured. Pick the people you are going to discuss in advance and come to the meeting with some simple background information about the person that you can share with the group. What might be the next steps?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) I collected some tools to use in planning and discussing a new business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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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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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. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. Answer questions like: Did participants’ attitudes, knowledge and skills change? Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

What I like best about the book is that the narrative is accompanying by terrific reflection questions and worksheets so you can easily adapt all the wisdom shared in the book. It is also packed with resource lists and stories. To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? First, with discipline and structure.

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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? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While technology for nonprofits is a win for nonprofits, a question exists about what shapes this technology’s development. They keep it in structures that serve each platform and compel software developers to build integrations and connections (or not) so that their independent companies can sell in multiple markets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Ask Good Questions. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. The process is simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

They will also discuss the many opportunities and challenges that arise from the aftermath of a viral campaign and more importantly the lessons they have learned about replicating the results. After they presented, we had a discussion between the three of us and then brought in the audience. It as a fantastic discussion.

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