Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Spectragram.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Use these tips to create a fulfilling volunteer experience and retain your remote volunteers’ support year-round: Provide thorough training Use the right tools Show volunteer appreciation By keeping your remote volunteers motivated, you can leverage their unique skills and interests to fuel change in your community. Let’s begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Our article, “ 8 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Adopt AI Responsibly, ” published in the Stanford Innovation Review was listed as the ten top most popular articles of 2023. Training & Facilitation: I have maintained an active schedule of leading workshops, facilitating retreats, and presenting.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

Service design principles can be applied to the social sector to craft audience experiences that create positive change in the world. Improve the user experience. Creating stronger audience experiences will create trust in your brand, thereby strengthening it. Strengthen your brand. Save time and money.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

If these two drivers of engagement are a world apart, it will be challenging to deliver the seamless experience customers expect from their favorite brands. The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a half-day “Digital Strategies&# seminar with Vince Ford, Director of Digital Media from the New York Philharmonic and leading a peer session for major orchestra marketing staff and youth orchestra executive directors with Makala Johnson who does Social Media for the Mayo Clinic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Nonprofits now have a range of remote and hybrid events to choose between, and they can make the most of them thanks to platforms like PayBee that facilitate streaming and other digital tools. More than ever, people want to get out there and have real social experiences with other people. 9 Modern Nonprofit Fundraising Methods.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Bloomerang

MAY 22, 2024

In the world of digital reporting, this dramatic shift is enhancing the user experience on both sides. Here are some of the benefits: More dollars, less clicking One of the key benefits of incorporating fundraising technology into digital storytelling is the ability to create a seamless and immersive experience for the audience.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. But it won’t happen unless you facilitate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We used sticky notes and the mandala template. David modeled a full group discussion to gather up all the ideas – using a template that used the basic flows of facilitation – attention, energy, information, and operations. The afternoon was focused on the skill building – drawing – images and letters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

It was this experience that gave Latham the idea to launch DonateStock , modernizing these transactions making it easier for donors to give and non-profits to receive. “We We are here to educate, facilitate and communicate,” he said. “We A better experience for your donors. It was such a pain, I never did it again,” Latham said.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. Different countries face different challenges when it comes to social justice. Want to see what this looks like in action?

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Maybe you’ve already experimented using generative AI to create content such as outlines, agendas, or even articles. The results are amazing when you consider that a machine can write a social post or a campaign promotion in minutes. This is also the right place to experiment with an MVP , or minimum viable product.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a human-centered technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact, sustainability and for-profit-for-good organizations and causes. Ok, first of all, you may be asking, what is a Tech Discovery? Here are our top 3 reasons: 1.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Opt for events that foster a social atmosphere and provide networking opportunities. As you’re considering your event options, think about creating an experience that not only resonates with your current donor base but also appeals to the next generation of supporters. And you can host them in person, or as virtual or hybrid events.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

But, here’s the thing, virtual event platforms can go a long way to improving attendee experience as well. Attendee experience plays a significant role in the success of your events , virtual or otherwise. To that end, here are the top 7 ways that a virtual event platform can improve attendee experience: 1. Personalization.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

But, here’s the thing, virtual event platforms can go a long way to improving attendee experience as well. Attendee experience plays a significant role in the success of your events , virtual or otherwise. To that end, here are the top 7 ways that a virtual event platform can improve attendee experience: 1. Personalization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out. Design must comes first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

A study by Social Fundraiser found that 69% of P2P fundraising participants faced barriers in meeting their goals. However, the Social Fundraiser study makes it clear that many participants struggle to fundraise effectively. However, it’s not without its challenges. The key is making participation fun and frictionless.

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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. Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Prioritize a streamlined user experience (UX) for donors. Use this key moment of increased traffic to grow your support base by accurately recording all of your new contacts, and let your integrated web tools help you offer supporters a more seamless user experience that encourages further engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. But in other instances, you need to do a little social engineering. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A 2017 study found that while 80 percent of nonprofit leaders believe that social innovation is critical to success, only 40 percent reported that their organization had the capacity to do so effectively. Create cycles of adaptation within the organization that enable staff to experiment with need ideas in a structured way.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. This can help them gain insight into the challenges and experiences faced by their audience. Social Media Listening Lastly, check the socials.

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

Yet this aspect of the experience is often the most daunting for many. As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. Know What You Want Out of Your Conference Networking Experience. Leave Room for Serendipity

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2021

While social distancing restrictions are beginning to loosen, large fundraising events like galas and auctions are likely still on pause for the rest of the year. Fortunately, golf tournaments continue to provide a safe option for in-person fundraisers , with their outdoor setting and innate social distancing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. How Strong Is Your Social Net?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Social media icons According to Charity Net USA, incorporating social media buttons into your nonprofit website is essential for effective marketing. If your organization maintains an active presence on social media platforms , include social media links on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. What was your experience? on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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