sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Keys to Datamaking Success Many of the tools and techniques that we have learned about data design and collection continue to be relevant in datamaking, such as: Ask clear questions and prioritize which data points, or combinations of data points, are most relevant to answering the questions. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding).

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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

APRIL 12, 2013

To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos. Visualization Techniques. Additional Resources. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online.

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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

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.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Creating a Network Map. Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. The Access Denied Map does not pretend to be exhaustive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk. What are your tips to help you focus in an age of distraction? Are there tips not on the mind map?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

Map the data. What is your techniques or process visualizing data? These are a great set of questions to ask as you look over your data. The steps are: Collect your data. Lay it out where you can really look at it. Establish the underlying coordinates. Draw a conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Where can network weaving techniques help you unleash the abundance that networks offer. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. Have any techniques to add to this list? I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. Connecting Up Master Class. Space to Move Around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. My presentation use s*x metaphors to explain some of the points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them. One technique is to weave self-care into your workday . Look ahead rituals can build space into your schedule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We did this on Day 1. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). This book will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Elements to include when studying techniques that inspire immediate action and applying those lessons: Analyze effective ad appeals – what motivates rapid response? Use surveys and donor journey mapping to understand how people engage initially and over time. Facilitate two-way dialogue to make supporters feel heard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

.” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. Ecosystem map of capacity builders space at #penguinday pic.twitter.com/1fGVlLkH3K — Beth Kanter (@kanter) March 12, 2014. Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. WeAreMedia Choose Your Own Adventure Webinar where we look at strategy maps and took deep dives into tactics like listening/engagement, spreading buzz , storytelling , and social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It maps out stages of change, but also recognizes that organizations may be in different stages at the same time: Dormant: At this stage, the organization does not know where to start. Data visualization techniques are used not only to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

My colleague Michelle Murrain discovered Frappr which allows anyone to put themselves on a map using Google APIs. One immediate use that came to mind is that if you had a distributed work group (based in US) that was working together, you could have people add photos and brief intro to the map. Other ideas?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Stringing Connections , in which visitors could describe relationships between works in the exhibition and make them visible by tying pieces of yarn between them on a large map of the gallery. These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

" She recaps what tools and techniques she has explored in order to discover how best to integrate all this activity into one's online publishing and online presence. It's inspired me to go back and reflect on how I'm (not too successfully at times) integrating all these techniques into my online publishing. She ends with: So.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute. Network purposes adds another layer of clarity. The network needs to conduct self-evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. More Advanced Techniques. It isn??????t How-To Resources.

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