Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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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. Showcase Panel. And, indeed we had journalists present.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks. You also need to design good openers and closers !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s given structure to what was a wild wild west approach to reaching out to our community.” For example, our colleagues at VolunteerMatch used the tool as an inspiration to create their 2012 volunteer engagement calendar. This year, we’ve further refined this handy tool, and tested it with a number of our clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

(Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). What tools, techniques, or work flows work for you?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

” I’ve found that scheduling walking meetings is a great way to get to know people and you get some exercise into your day! (I’m ” Professional networking gone wrong includes a mismanagement of structure, relationships, and behavior. Capitlize: Make sure you’re using your contacts as effectively as you can.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. A connection between people is called link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. (The Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Just a heads-up: this is a long read. Let's get started! This is definitely an “ask” worth making!

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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. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

It was a fun exercise and participants were brilliant. In the afternoon, we took a deep dive into the listening techniques. We had a fair amount of discussion on different models for structuring listening within an organization. What is an example of your organizational or individual work flow?

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. In this exercise, team norms are agreed upon and serve as operating principles that guide remote team members’ interactions. These offer insight into strengths, preferences, and approaches to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). An example? Another example. Here's an example from the Red Cross.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

SMART Fundraising Goals SMART goals give you a structure to follow in setting your goals. For example: “acquire 100 new donors this year” or “write 10 grant proposals before March.” Here are some other examples of good SMART fundraising goals: Increase our donor base by 10% (from 950 to 1,045) by December 31, 2023.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2016

While the trip was a rich and deep experience, I using this post to reflect on the instructional design of the exercises and small group facilitation techniques. The design included the following structure to allow for full group and small group dialogue, interaction, and exercises. Exercise #1: Herding Sheep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

Structured Working Partnerships: Lovisa Williams who works with the Department of State says it is important to work closely with the legal advisor in your agency or organization and to cultivate a relationship of mutual trust and respect. The article has examples, but the advice is this: Denise M. Keyser said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. I look at my materials and ask whether or not I have used examples, data, or words/phrases/jokes/humor that are so American that they would not be understood outside of the US? I have a basic structure. Customize once you get on-site.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. I thought that I was going to power down a little bit. And what I found was that many of.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. So there’s perception, behavior, and structure. And then structure is systems. So perception is how you feel, behavior is what you do, structure is what you have. And then what’s the structure we can put in place?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

For example, when I think of the term "wikimuseum," I think of several potential characteristics. In Metaphors We Live By , Lakoff and his co-author, Mark Johnson, argue that metaphor is literally embedded in our neurological structures from birth and affects how we think and use language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The 5 techniques I’m sharing below are all about DISRUPTING the stress response. You can think of these techniques as re-routing or snipping the circuit wire that’s fueling your stress. When we are talking about disruption techniques for a crisis situation, walking away is a big one. 3: Emotional Freedom Technique.

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