Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2006

I'm trying to clear the decks before I take off a few days. I just got an email from Stop Genocide Now alerting me that they're sending two citizen journalists back to the Chad/Darfur border for 14 consecutive days of reports starting Dec 21, 2006. They will file text, video, and photographic reports. You can follow the reports on their blog.

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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. By explicitly stating norms, every member of the meeting will understand how to act (and interact) with others.

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AUGUST 7, 2008

Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed. More here. I put the RSS feed for the WeAreMedia wiki in - and it displays the changes in a timeline. I wish I had known about dipity from the beginning -- gives you a sense of participation. It only captured the last couple of days of changes.

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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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MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

8 Principles for Using Social Media Effectively View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks.

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APRIL 15, 2020

The interactive workshop focused on personal resilience tips based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. (The This morning I facilitated a virtual mini-workshop for the Resource Alliance as part of its Plan C Online Discussions. The recording and resources can be found here ).

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JANUARY 9, 2008

" In the comments, Weiksner clarified that Facebook Causes fits the "self-expression" model of interaction and incorporates competition to enhance engagement. What's noted: "Adapted patterns are also cross-cutting techniques for increasing engagement and revenue."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

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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OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. However, these days so many of my meetings take place online, typically on Zoom, and interactivity can be a challenge. I feel this makes a better learning experience.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction.

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JULY 9, 2019

The author, Eirini Maliaraki, an interaction designer, argues for more precise definition of the emerging field “AI for Good,” with a focus on outcomes, not the technology. What Is AI for Good? This is a good analysis of the evolution of Tech for Good, Cloud for Good, Data for Good, and the latest iteration: AI For Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

This is a very important concept for instructional design -the way the room is set up effects how people learn. I strongly believe that a workshop, panel, master class, or even a keynote that is interactive is more engaging, people pay attention, they make connections to what they already know and are far more likely to apply it.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Digital experience and engagement will draw people into nonstop virtual interactions. Business innovation will create extraordinary change from mundane concepts. Secondary effects will be more disruptive than the initial digital change. Think about how you’ve interacted with SIRI.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It is important to frame why you think a strolling meeting is a better fit for your purpose: Problem-Solving: Can be enhanced by the movement and fresh air as well as informal interactions among people. The spontaneous mixing that occurs on a strolling meeting can enhance interactions. Step 2: Pick the Right Meeting To Get Started.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. Finally, learners made a decision to incorporate the skills in the future.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! It has been a pleasure to co-design this session with knowledgeable and smart colleagues who are as obsessed with instructional design and interactive exercises as I am. Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

One of the big questions and interactive components for the audience to ponder was an earlier iteration of Stephen George’s Fundraiser DNA. AI-Driven fundraising has the ability to scale customized donor interaction at scale. Are these aspects of the DNA from 2003 still the same? Fundraiser DNA.

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MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. Interactive Training Engages. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

One metaphor is to think of the AI as an intern that you need to clearly communicate instructions to and then check their work and revise.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Additionally, there’s worry about the impersonal nature of AI, which might diminish human interaction and decision-making in professional settings. There’s also discomfort over the rapid pace of change and perceived steep learning curve while being overwhelmed with current workloads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

” Now that’s a design challenge – how to deliver an interactive session that can go in-depth with 80-100 participants in 90 minutes! ” The book offers some great reminders about how to make your presentations more interactive. Talking VS Listening.

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APRIL 2, 2013

You’ll hear a lot of F words flailing in this highly interactive plenary session – fearless, frameworks, fundamentals, forgiveness, forward-looking, and most importantly FUN! Through lively sharing and discussion we will dive into the art of placing small bets or affordable losses that can lead to innovation.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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MAY 19, 2014

An interactive map launched by the non-profit Project AWARE visualizes nearly three years of ongoing reporting by a network of scuba divers who remove marine debris from the world’s ocean. Today, almost 400,000 pieces of trash from over 1000 dives appear on the interactive Dive Against Debris map. million divers.

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MAY 23, 2017

The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process. The audience laughed. The challenges: Explosion of online media channels.

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MAY 15, 2020

Interactive Meeting Techniques. Icebreakers: Stoke Deck : A collection of warm-up activities designed to boost energy, build connection, foster empathy, support collaboration, and cultivate creativity. Icebreakers for Teams Collection Select from over 300 icebreakers based on how well the group knows each other.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This will be an interactive session and we’ll each be tackling a different aspect of resilience. I’ll be talking about workplace rituals and the link to resilience. The definition of resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficult situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Automated accounts can still interact with Californians, according to the law, but they will need to disclose that they are bots.The law comes as concerns about social media manipulation remain high and bots continue to spread misinformation and divisive political rhetoric. More on the new law here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

And one thing he said about the impact of living in an autonomous world, “Empathy, human touch and interaction will be become more important.” . That part is an interactive process where you add answers that users ask the bot. Because Bots are somewhat of a novelty now, users seem to enjoy trying to stump the bot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are some recent examples: The Nonprofit Aid Visualizer—NAVi—powered by Vanguard Charitable integrates several large data sets on an interactive platform, making it easy to find charities solving the problems that donors care about and want to support. NAVi seeks to fill these gaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2018

The intent as described by Zuckerberg was to encourage meaningful interaction and ensure that time on Facebook was well spent. Helping people connect is more important than maximizing the time they spend on Facebook,” he said, later adding that more “meaningful interactions” are the key here. We think that that’s going to be positive.

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JUNE 24, 2014

As employees of nonprofits increasingly interact with their professional contacts in online social networks that favor individual participation, such as Facebook or Twitter, they are likely to experience a collision of their professional and personal identities. But in today’s world, those boundaries are pretty blurred.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Teaching, leaning, and training has been my passion for 20 years. So,I was thrilled to facilitate an interactive panel at the Communications Network Conference in New Orleans last week on the topic of designing capacity building programs with colleagues Farra Trompeter, Michael Hoffman, and Eva Penar. Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 (..)

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JANUARY 16, 2013

This session is my first interactive keynote based on the content of my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. This interactive session will provide practical information on how to use data for social change. The last time I keynoted was five years ago!

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MARCH 5, 2014

.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. In any of my instructions for any interactive activities, I always tell people that it isn’t required to move around or stand – do what they comfortable doing and modify. I make it okay to modify so no one feels excluded.

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