Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was fun to see NGOs in Tunisia begin to embrace, adapt, and apply the concept. The template itself is geared for the USA, but since Holly has so generously shared it for free in Google document, I suspect it could be easily localized for NGOs in many other places of the world and easily converted to other languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ".

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The game itself then becomes a document of that relationship (for those in the know). Also, familiarity with game design techniques, and tools, and exercises, and processes. SR: My favorite games are board games, I think. I love all the collateral you create to make the experience.

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Game Museum Design Digital 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

It was a fun exercise and participants were brilliant. Listening Bootcamp: Chicago Workshop View more Microsoft Word documents from kanter. In the afternoon, we took a deep dive into the listening techniques. Judith Sol-Dyss made a recommendation that made us all laugh.

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Organization Chicago Social Media Technique 51

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. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. But ROI was not really intended to measure a technology project, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. Using monitoring tools. (tags: nonprofits roi ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. You need to think through purpose, roles, meeting norms, materials, facilitator agenda (specially if you are using online tools to do activities like brainstorming, etc), technical, scheduling, and communication. And, always have a plan B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise.

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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. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. You need to think through purpose, roles, meeting norms, materials, facilitator agenda (specially if you are using online tools to do activities like brainstorming, etc), technical, scheduling, and communication. And, always have a plan B.

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Facilitation Virtual Effective Practice 109

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Goals are powerful tools that help channel resources towards solutions. Writing your SMART fundraising goals down gives you something to look at and a document to hold you accountable. A goal is an idea of the future that keeps me focused. A goal is what happens in hockey when a player slaps a puck into a net. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

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Goal Fundraising Sponsor Grant 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

Keep Your Social Media Policy Up To Date : As the field of social media practice matures and new techniques and platforms come into use, so do new legal issues. It is important that your social media policy is a living document that reflects current practice.

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