Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

Dank Apps (creators of the popular Lotto app ) has launched a new series of Social Change applications that allow Facebook users to raise money for a cause through advertising revenue. This means users do not have to donate, but just need to install the application, recruit their friends, or play the games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

She also used the term “Red Teaming” where you test the technology to try to break it so you feel confident that it will do no harm. When it comes to using generative AI tools such as Copilot for drafts of written materials, a human must always check it for accuracy because it can make mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Congress are undermining decades of the sector’s work on immigration; women, minority and LGBTQ rights; the environment; and the social contract with government—among other issues. Many nonprofit leaders and organizations are literally under attack in this political environment. Social change leaders need more-flexible ?strategies,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. . Each area describes the project idea, type of AI technology and data sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Creating norms and processes that promote psychological safety is critical for a caring work environment. Rather than focusing solely on tasks, we should genuinely inquire about our team members’ well-being. Hiring for Empathy Here’s an interesting thought — if Zappos can hire for happiness, why can’t nonprofits hire for empathy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. A key differentiator between winners and losers will be winners’ capacity to figure out the correct balance in this new environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Build Relationship: Team building occurs while involved in informal activities and outside our normal environment. For larger groups, changing up the environment improves team interactions and helps generate solutions. The spontaneous mixing that occurs on a strolling meeting can enhance interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Most people can’t draw, so this activity levels the playing field and it positively reinforces group dynamics and builds a more open environment. .” You begin your meeting by having your team sketch each other – the person next to them on the Zoom square. Each person shares their drawing and you guess who it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to this article in the Harvard Business Review, research studies are showing that taking brief breaks for quiet can restore the nervous system, helps sustain energy, and conditions our brains to be more adaptive and responsive to the complex environments in which so many of us now live, work, and lead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2018

The environment nonprofits find themselves operating in is going to last for awhile. I’m hearing from many nonprofit folks that they are feeling the exhaustion from a perpetual cycle of outrage. Many felt stressed and exhausted back in Nov. 2016, and have been fighting for important causes for 18 months now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Restructuring office environments such as adding adjustable or standing desks. But walking can also reduce healthcare costs, provide equal transportation access for everyone, clean the environment, improve the economic viability of our downtowns, and more. Here’s what worked: Educating people about the benefits of less sitting time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

He describes the discomfort that many of us feel when we shift from working in traditional environments (in organizations) to working within a network or working in the clouds. He says it feels like vertigo: Vertigo is a state caused by being out of balance in relation to your environment. Anything that can be routine should be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The thing is it has only been a few weeks and the environment nonprofits find themselves operating in is going to last for a while. During many of the Q/A sessions, we heard from many nonprofit professionals who were feeling impact of a perpetual cycle of outrage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

Creating an environment for learning in public means that it is okay to say “I don’t know” about an issue or problem and to ask others what they think. How do create an environment where it is okay to learn in public? This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. And that can be fun too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2017

The book looks at our relationships with ourselves, other people, careers and money, our environment, and technology—and shows how our relationships with people in our workplaces heavily influence our well-being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

When you create an environment where everyone can be successful—and that includes personal success, success within their job role, and contributing to the success of the enterprise—then you will have very high employee engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

I mean if we’re going to learn in public, it better be a collegial and supportive environment. If learning in public means showing our vulnerabilities – be it less than primped up data sets or underperforming grant investments – then the risk of the ‘gotcha’ environment must be tempered down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

org is using Sam to call attention to the environment and harness puppy power on behalf of the climate. org is using Sam to call attention to the environment and harness puppy power on behalf [.] That’s Sam, grist.org’s office puppy. So, grist-.org They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment. Reflection: As a trainer and facilitator, I am constantly learning and testing new facilitation and training techniques. To reflect, you need to incorporate experimentation, creativity, and learning into the way you work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The space creates a calm and reflective environment. According to Terhi Molsa, Executive Director, the painting on the wall is of a lake in Finland, because being near water encourages creativity. There are couches and comfortable chairs. How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I loved the final exercise we did in which we drew up a Self-care plan checklist, separated into five sections: self, others, environment, work and money, and technology, as well as steps we can take to try and achieve these goals. My first attempt is shown here. So, bravo to Beth and Corine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Here are some common elements for engagement: An inclusive, learner-focused environment. They remind participants of what they learned, and encourage them to apply new skills, even though they are no longer in the learning environment. I can’t overstate the importance of this part of a learning event. Step 3: Transfer of Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The site features innovative and high impact nonprofits with responsible track records in six key areas: Education, Health, Economic Development, Arts & Culture, Environment, and Human Rights, selected using this criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

But when you come into your workplace, the culture and the environment does not support happy, healthy. For example, the break rooms have vending machines with salty and sugary snacks and the fridge is stocked with sodas, not water. And, people sit at their desks working without taking a break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

Bring these habits and behaviors into the workplace and we create an toxic environment that threatens our wellbeing and resilience to do the important work that nonprofits need to do. Our use of digital devices, apps, email , and social media (even for work purposes) has crossed the line into an unhealthy relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Instead, there are multiple culture types that create the right environment for data driven nonprofits to take shape and grow. Culture of Agile: There is empowerment of people to interact and collaborate that allows them to adapt and respond to a changing environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This does not mean predicting the future (an impossible task if ever there was one) but instead means being attuned to rapid and continual shifts in the environment; continually evaluating and interpreting how organizations can best adapt; and experimenting with new responses and approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions are time wasters and you need to manage them no the other way around. Some interruptions come from our physical environment. Distractions are time wasters and you need to manage them no the other way around. Some interruptions come from our physical environment. It can’t be recycled if we squander it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

It is hoped this bot can remove some of the stigma associated with making a formal complaint – and lead to a safer, more open environment for all employees. Human Resources: The chatbot Spot mimics a confidential conversation with HR about sexual harassment leading to the generation of a report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

You don’t always have flexibility in room set up and I have found myself “hacking” the physical space (moving around furniture) to create an environment that invites interactivity, peer learning, and engagement. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

” People who work in this environment often feel they can’t take time off or practice self-care because if they do their client will suffer. But, in this type of work, it is critical to incorporate self-care in order to sustain oneself and to serve clients better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a non collaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. Supporters have a disjointed experience with an organization they care about because of organizational silos. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Artificial barriers among program areas and staff can breed reactionary environments that are frustrating at best and debilitating at worst. Fortunately, storytelling busts silos. Organizational silos are the bane of too many nonprofit communicators’ existences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Creating an environment for learning in public means that it is okay to say “I don’t know” about an issue or problem and to ask others what they think. How do create an environment where it is okay to learn in public? This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. And that can be fun too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I think it is really important to have a sand box where you can practice using the tools or techniques of working in a networked way in a low risk, safe environment. She says that you can't define actually what will happen, but you need to set up an environment and processes that facilitate serendipity happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Most people can’t draw, so this activity levels the playing field and it positively reinforces group dynamics and builds a more open environment. You begin your meeting by having your team sketch each other – the person next to them on the Zoom square. Each person shares their drawing and you guess who it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Live Earth is soliciting positive and supportive user generated content expressing appreciation and love for senators’ positions on the environment, green jobs, clean energy, and/or the Climate Bill. They are urging us to encourage and motivate them to support a greener future. Submit your video here.

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