.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Leverage ChatGPT to generate reports, articles, and newsletters.

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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 integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage?

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2014

All this summer weve been introducing you to the facilitators who will make the three tracks so memorable. Lisa is an internationally renowned facilitator and educator known for her use of Open Space Technology and other participant-driven dialogic and interactive methods for engaging deeper reflection, learning, and interchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” They also had a chance to interact with peers with different styles to learn more.

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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Host interactive events: Consider organizing interactive events where participants need to work together to solve a puzzle or mystery. Or try additional experiential events like interactive workshops, virtual reality experiences, or access to behind-the-scenes activities. Make the process as seamless as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

There are number of reasons we feel exhausted from zoom meetings as Jeremy Bailenson, Virtual Human Interaction Lab points out. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. The first rotation is a quiet reflection alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” Interactive Training Engages. Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

For instance, you could create personas based on how individuals interact with your mission, whether as volunteers, donors, or beneficiaries. Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Define Your Ideal MarTech Stack Using the diagram you made of your current MarTech stack, create a version of it that is updated to reflect your nonprofit’s ideal state. Your information should flow between platforms in a way that creates efficiency and a source of truth.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Jeremey Bailenson, director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab has been studying this malady suggests that it is caused by Nonverbal Overload. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout. There are a few more benefits to turning off your camera on Zoom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. 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. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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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. You did great. Always start and end with something creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We chose the latter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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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. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Jeremey Bailenson, director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab has been studying this malady suggests that it is caused by Nonverbal Overload. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout. There are a few more benefits to turning off your camera on Zoom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. The small groups should a mix of people and include someone with experience actually using the tools and one person who is a good facilitator. Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections.

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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. Some Reflections. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Geoff Livingston did a great live blog post on the content.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Integrated functionality is critical for nonprofit virtual engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction. I used this a variety of ways: whiteboard interactive lecture and brainstorm; sticky note exercise; and student work space.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Additionally, they may have reached a point in their lives where they are reflecting on their legacy and the impact they want to leave behind. Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans. Provide clear instructions. Choose the right time to bring up the subject.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Personal interactions. At an in-person event, attendees can easily interact with one another and socialize during these breaks, keeping them engaged. Not only will attendees be able to interact with one another, but they’ll also be able to connect with members of your nonprofit’s staff and witness the impact of your story firsthand.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Organizations are complex systems that interact constantly and significantly with a host of other equally complex systems. Culture tends to reflect who’s in charge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

And for many donors, giving is a reflection of who they want to be. The reason that most NPOs do this is because they don’t see the fundraiser/donor interaction as a relationship, even though it’s a sense of relationship that keeps a donor giving year after year. However, for whatever reason, it doesn’t make you feel good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

David Wilcox wrote his reflections on our workshop in Birmingham two weeks ago while stuck on a train enroute back to London. I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. He's spot on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. At the time, we invited Internet thought-leaders to participate in an email list discussion, focusing on interactive tools. Online Communities: Are Best Practices Still Best Practices?

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