Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Documentation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. The Intersector Toolkit provides frameworks that reflect phases of the relationship and support conceptual design, monitoring program elements, and ongoing measurement of milestones or goals. Layer two begins with the implementation process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

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.). Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. You can set up a series of fun emoji for people to cut and paste into the chat or google document to express how they are feeling. Some of these were inspired by this tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Needless to say, I learned a lot! View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. Kandi Wiens Today, Wiens shares these insights with us: Question: Why did you decide to write the book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Reflection and Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. There is also an self-assessment exercise. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. To get everyone into a brainstorming mindset, you can facilitate a simple icebreaker called “Yes And” based on improvisation exercises. “Yes,

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Gunner also facilitated a brainstorming and affinity mapping exercise to unpack all the possible topics for deep dives in small groups in the afternoon. These techniques are based on human-centered design principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises. There was also excellent AV support and acoustics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

It's like trying to get back into physical shape after you haven't been exercising for a while. . So, as part of getting back into my blogging routine or rather establishing a new one, I'd like to reflect a little on TWT20 interview experience. I'm not a skeptic any longer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

While I love using magic markers and sticky notes or tossing a ball in icebreakers and exercises, don’t only use activities that require having materials or equipment on hand. Here’s an excellent resource with tons of great icebreakers and exercises that can be adapted for staff training. (3) You can always adapt or improvise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning. Since modeling the use of social media to document and share learning, we began with a discussion about our rules about live tweeting and posting photos. What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. It reflects best practices in adult learning and provides a framework that results in positive change. Pre-work would prime me for the learning objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea.

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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. Photo by Gary Clark. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. And don’t cough or sneeze into the mic as your voice is in their headsets at all time.

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

As fiduciaries, board members have three key legal duties to the nonprofit: Duty of Care: Board members are obligated to be thoughtful and committed as they execute their duties, and they must exercise their best judgment when making decisions on behalf of the organization. Fundraising is a huge part of a board’s duties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Sound familiar? PRIORITIES. Are there competing priorities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. Network maps are "talking documents" or prompts for reflection and strategizing. View more Microsoft Word documents from David Armano. These use tools like crayons and paper and process exercises. . The tools.

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JULY 8, 2021

An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Matching, Labeling, and Sorting. eLearning Pricing Models: 5 Ways to Price Your Courses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Not all volunteers want to exercise their occupational expertise; some prefer to diversify. The level of your volunteers’ engagement reflects your ability to listen to their wants, needs, and suggestions. Require employees who regularly work with volunteers to participate in a creative appreciation exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally. Documentation creates internal value. You have to think like a scientist, documenting your experiments at the beginning, middle, and end. Document on the fly I don't wait until the end of the project. Listening leads to engagement. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Often the effective practices are well documented, but the novices -- who are often in the majority -- lack both the core civic skills and the confidence for independent experiential learning. Someone who takes action and reflect on it. The cycles get closer together until the thinking while doing happen at the same time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. The most important point is that you need to think like a scientist - they measure and document everything and do experiments. Document on the fly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

But since so many years of work have gone into the TRC’s report, it is also useful to reflect on the broader role of the TRC in Liberia as well as truth commissions around the world. The coding team in Liberia achieved an overall average of 89% agreement on coding exercises throughout their work on TRC statements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas. We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection. Participants were encouraged to focus on quantity of ideas and not to self-edit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. My challenge was to get into a reflective mindset.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were scientists, we'd have documentation of each experiment, each publishable result, each improved-upon discovery. But exhibit design is transient and its documentation spotty. If we were musicians, we'd have the recordings and the sheet music. We live in a cyclical Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Design. Enter ExhibitFiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

It is important that your social media policy is a living document that reflects current practice. How does your organization ensure that your social media policy is a living document and up to date? But the agency has also found that it is permissible for employers to act against a lone worker ranting on the Internet.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. But it is a great planning tool and exercise. You could even do it in Excel or Word document, but just a way to look at this. I love this logic model.

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