Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Because staff turnover challenges effectiveness and poor morale does not inspire staff to move the organization’s forward to great heights. Enough staff to cover work or prioritize work flows. Encourage staff to take breaks, go outside to get fresh air. Use surveys to find out what staff need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Meetings are a big part of our work week, whether it is a recurring staff, team, or board meeting or informal check-in. Teampedia -This collection includes many useful team building activities, icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that want to improve their collaborative processes, including meetings.

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

As a program officer at GlobalGiving, I use it for our one-on-one catch ups, our staff meetings, crowdfunding training, and our worldwide Peer Learning Networks. If you can, try and start your session off with an icebreaker that people can engage with as they want. We would in a theater or a shared space having a conversation!

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They incorporate engaging team-building exercises and icebreakers to break up the day with some laughs and to build relationships. They will make calls to select board members and staff, and solicit feedback from stakeholders if required. Boring retreats provide no value and waste everyone’s time. They do their homework.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Aligning your staff with a narrow set of goals for the community will guide many aspects of the process, from the way you promote it to the community activities you organize. In this guide, we’ll discuss three steps to creating an online community, starting with identifying the primary objectives and purpose of the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Importance of Icebreakers: Getting To Know People in the Room. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. This sets the stage for deeper learning and that requires trust and comfort level. What you know?

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

So while it is not altogether enticing to have an office holiday party over the internet, it will surely get your remote team in the holiday spirit and bring together your remote staff in a way that is more enjoyable than a typical virtual meeting or work event. . Things to Consider When Hosting a Virtual Holiday Party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Icebreakers Tips and Tricks. Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

We did a fun icebreaker having folks take a photo of each other with their smart phones and post on Twitter. One where a staff member sent a tweet to the NWF instead of her personal account. Danielle @starfocus. Danielle shared a story about making mistakes on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

You need an agenda, time, location, background reading, and participants. At the actual meeting, you start with an icebreaker or what Andrea calls the “hook” to get people thinking about the topic. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. The program was designed for two participants per organization, a senior level staff and the staff person who implements social media. The latter includes a lack of a formal communication strategy or staffing limitations.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

So while it is not altogether enticing to have an office holiday party over the internet, it will surely get your remote team in the holiday spirit and bring together your remote staff in a way that is more enjoyable than a typical virtual meeting or work event. . Things to Consider When Hosting a Virtual Holiday Party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

As one participant noted in the discussion, a big problem she observes with social media within nonprofits is that the leadership is "divorced" from the social media and tactics are delegated to the "young person on staff" without strategic insight. I also pointed out the inherent tension we experience between strategy and tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming is very useful for staff meetings to generate ideas for different programs or campaigns. It also improves overall staff engagement because it gives everyone a voice. To get everyone into a brainstorming mindset, you can facilitate a simple icebreaker called “Yes And” based on improvisation exercises. “Yes,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. We used the resulting brainstorm as the basis for exercises in writing headlines and creating visual content, two of the most important content creation skills for social media staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

My panel was about how nonprofits can work effectively free agents, individuals interested in social change but not a traditional nonprofit staff person or volunteer. It struck me that it was all about relationships. As an icebreaker, I asked them to write down one word that leads to a fruitful collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. One movement icebreaker that I’ve used is to have participants walk around the room and think about what they want to get out of the day. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This type of active exercise gets people moving, serves as an icebreaker, and also is an efficient way for the group to share a lot of useful practical learnings. For example, the All Kids Covered has been using the timeline features to create milestones for legislative victories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

With icebreakers, for example, you can use counting off or alphabetical order. Here’s some reflections: 1.) Small Group Composition: How you select people to put into small groups may or may not be important to a small group exercise. But in other instances, you need to do a little social engineering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

4-Always Do A Virtual Icebreaker or Check-In. It is important to build in time for an icebreaker because it can create a positive group atmosphere, break down social barriers, motivate, help people think about the topic, and get people to know and trust one another. My best tips and tools are in this recent post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations. Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities.

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Qgiv

APRIL 24, 2023

Don’t overwhelm your staff with all the event responsibilities if there are tasks that could be handed off to volunteers. When you’re searching for sponsorships, start with local businesses that your staff or volunteers have connections with to give you a foot in the door. Or you can put up a banner or poster at the event venue.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Membership software for nonprofits helps automate communications and tracking, saving your staff time and preventing unneeded stress on your team members. Will your staff members be able to get up and running in the new system quickly? Pricing Springly offers a free plan or a free trial of their paid software. User-friendliness.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So most of you are hoping to get strategies about how to strengthen your volunteer donor and staff relationships and sense of community. . That’s your icebreaker, that’s your opening. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned. Steven, let’s wrap it up. All right.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

As young professionals who have served both as members and staff managers of these groups, Sarah Willey and Corinne Austin will lead you through the research on Next Gen supporters, challenges to anticipate, and steps your organization can take to start a new young friends board from scratch OR to maximize the potential of your existing group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi’s board , like its staff , work together virtually across many time zones using different online tools for meetings and collaborative work. A few learnings: Just Mibli (2)Words : I have been using an icebreaker called “Just Two Words.&# I asked for the words in English or Swahili.

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