Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Or the last photo in their phone.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. The video calls have a consistent structure to them. The last 15 minutes of the meeting are set aside for me to interact with the volunteers and update them on operational changes or news from other parts of the Smithsonian.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Since upper leadership doesn’t spend much time interacting with lower-level employees, it’s important to ask them for their feedback about improving the organization’s culture and work environment.

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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. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Much like the structure of a story, setting or place for origination is critical in how both sides establish the relationship. Who helped facilitate the introduction to the individual? Frequency of positive interactions on both sides is a strong indicator of durability. Meaning, we’re in a real relationship. A first gift?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Modeling the Network Mindset. I think that TechSoup Global’s three leaders – Daniel Ben-Horin, Rebecca Massisak, and Marnie Webb – have been modeling this practice. Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure. Design and Model Peer to Peer Connections and Appreciation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Several nonprofits have successfully interacted with, and more importantly, seen impact from, these engaged new audiences. One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions. Players, who collectively average about 30 years old in the U.S.,

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Facilitator bits. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.

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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. For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. collaboration and interaction opportunities between participants, local experts, and others.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. First, they can become a model for creating a true solidarity economy. 9</sup).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

Most importantly, it is about building a professional network of peole in your industry or professional area (external experts and others) and interacting with them to keep up to date. She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Cost Structure: Understand the pricing model of the software you’re evaluating. Its capabilities extend to managing events and donor interactions. It provides interactive features for silent auctions and charity events. An intuitive interface can save you time and reduce training requirements for your team.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Here are a few different types of donor management software that nonprofits use to handle their relationships: CRM: A constituent relationship management system is a comprehensive tool for tracking donor data and interactions. It’s a tool that holds all of your information about your donors and their interactions with your organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

For the most part, foundations are using social media as a one-way communications tool about their programs, not for interaction. I shared a few points about nonprofits use of social media, including a maturity of practice model called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly. He also added that it is important to have structured information.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It allows you to know your members better, track interactions with them, and gain useful business intelligence on membership trends. This combination allows you to use and interact with your data in ways that were unimaginable in the past. The Person Account model is the data model configuration recommended by Salesforce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David points over to colleague Michele Martin's post " How to Facilitate Conversation Between Comments on Our Blogs? She ends her post with: So, how do you encourage interactions with commenters on your blog? How do you interact with other commenters when you comment on someone else's blog? Skelliwag commenters: 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. The envisioned twenty-first-century model, however, is more level. Museums are changing.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2007

Tomb is an interactive Indiana Jones-style 45 minute team experience in which small groups, led by a guide, confront a series of puzzles and sensory challenges as they try to escape from a pharoah's cursed tomb. Instead of guides leading groups, there are actor/facilitators who interact with visitors throughout their experience.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Today, we take a page from Wallace Stevens and look at some alternative ways to structure museum admissions and pricing. What if visitors could stream into the museum, with the expectation that at some point they would encounter a staff member who could facilitate the purchase of admission? Get rid of the admissions desk.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. It's easier to talk about interactivity by asking, "what can I do here?" We certainly did the latter but only learned about the importance of the former late in the process. than by talking in suppositions.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We love for these sessions to be interactive. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. And the way that I’m going to talk about these case studies is the purpose, the structure, and the outcome of each. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. This is your chance to meet, interact and learn from the best of the nonprofit best in fundraising, marketing and more.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? The other thing that you’re going to do to facilitate that conversation is you’re going to. That’s how we facilitate it. . I add a stage five where I like to follow the model that had stage five, and that’s the process.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And think about, you know, feel free to grab a piece of paper right in front of you, put it down, I want this to be interactive for you, and take some notes. Do we have a clear structure? There’s many different structures to managing your community, you just have to put it on paper and share it. Are regular meetings set?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We’d love for these sessions to be interactive. ” But I want to make sure that y’all are interacting with me here and that if you need to write notes, that you can do that later. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. So use the chat, the Q&A. We’ll see those. You can tweet us. Absolutely.

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