Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

and ease people into a group meeting or learning situation. It is important to build in time for an icebreaker whether it is a staff training, board retreat, or a workshop with people coming together for the first time. 1) Meet and Greet: Throw the Ball. 2) Meet and Greet: Getting To Know You.

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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. After each group presented, everyone was given 5 green sticky tabs and one red tab.

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MAY 5, 2014

This can even be done with sticky notes and some columns on a wall. Stand Up Meetings When crunch time hits, short stand up meeting as part of the daily process can bring issues to the surface that would normally fall through the cracks. With work prioritized, this leads to the important tasks being finished first.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

1) Save Time Using A Calendar App For Meetings. It’s time to meet. ” Four emails later you still haven’t landed on a meeting time. 3) Take Note-Taking Off Your To-Do List. Taking notes can get out of control. I decided notes needed to go digital. There are loads of note taking apps.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Look at your desk right now, and tell me how many sticky notes are on it. How many reminder notes to yourself? You may need to get rid of sticky notes and embrace digital tools, better time management, and more efficient processes. How many to-do lists? The first step may be to change the way you work.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 20, 2022

You might find you need to meet monthly instead of quarterly. You can also use this space to note activities may be assumed to be in your organization’s purview, but that are out of scope. Board meetings: How and when are Board meetings held? Who can call a Board meeting? How and when are Board members elected?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Consider the hours of time you spend reading articles and books, attending webinars, conferences and meetings, watching videos, and whatever else you generally do to explore and develop new skills. And it’s why I’m a huge fan of whiteboards and written brainstorming meetings. via article, book, webinar, meeting, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. If you are curious about more techniques, I suggest David Staker’s “ Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2017

While we were using PublicProfit’s conference room, I happen to notice the “Wall of Accomplishments” (see above) It was dated July, 2017 and filled with sticky notes about the small wins that the team has accomplished. There is a lot of science and research behind this simple idea of celebrating accomplishments.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In our Service Design: Where Social Impact Meets Innovation webinar, we defined service design, described how service design fits into the social sector, and broke down how mission-driven organizations can apply it to their work. . This phase usually involves a lot of sticky notes. Phase 4: Prototype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Review it together in a meeting and summarize. We had about 10-15 minutes individually to write down our thoughts on different sticky notes and put them in the appropriate page and section. Use a google document (or create a Slack channel or What’s App group) so your team can capture during the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time! For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

. ” This is the burnout from too many emails, meetings, and collaborative tech tools that limits our organization’s ability to get stuff done. Or to catch up on all those emails that were sent while we were in back-to-back meetings all day. It could be done face-to-face or as a virtual or hybrid meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. I typically draw a vertical line down my notebook page, and label each column “Content” and “Instructional Process” to capture both types of notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! Each camper had three sticky notes where we added our names. The story was that an organization had hired a consultant who scheduling meetings with staff but was not showing up. One of the counselors did a visual of the meter. Here’s a quick video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday? Our work days are filled with meetings and conference calls with the intent of getting stuff done. But many meetings end up being a complete waste of time. In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. I often incorporate sticky notes and often have to rearrange the furniture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

If you facilitate meetings or trainings, how you get better at your tradecraft? In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. It is a technique that is used in Open Space design. Tips Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Visual Meeting Workshop by David Sibbet and Rachel Smith - Based on Sibbet's book Visual Meetings. About a year ago, I came across David Sibbet’s book, “ Visual Meetings ” I have known of his work for years, but always thought graphic recording was for “real artists who can draw.’

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Meetings: If we could work efficiently and effectively without holding meetings, we would all do it! But meetings are a part of any nonprofit, and you need a tool to gather everyone or some meeting participants virtually. Google Meet is part of Google Workplace and includes video meetings. And, it’s free!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

This past year, I collaborated with Andrea Kihlstedt on a couple of Guidestar hosted Webinars on the topic of Healthy and Productive Meetings. Six Power Tips for Great Meetings in Today’s Virtual World by Beth Kanter and Andrea Kihlstedt. Meetings harness the energy of multiple minds around a topic. They’re planned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2011

You may need a couple of meetings to discuss and review the following: Who should be involved writing the policy? If your nonprofit is a large organization with many staff, you’ll want to consult with HR, Legal, IT, and other key departments. Who will vet the policy? See more advice here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

I use low tech tools first – paper, markers, sticky notes, and sticky dots. Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes. Marc shared his expert knowledge and here are some notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I have designed and delivered trainings that were short-term, one-time sessions such as a half-day or full-day workshop to more intensive programs that incorporated face-to-face, peer exchange, action learning projects, and monthly meetings that took place over a six-month period. 5. Closers to Consolidate Learning.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

There are any number of ways that nonprofits keep track of projects: manilla folders, email, databases, and, if you’re like me, often notebooks and sticky notes. Huddle also lets you assign tasks to individuals or groups, schedule meetings, and post documents for review with version control.

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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. They help “air out the brain” and can help a tired group regain focus. I incorporate energizers into webinars (see slide 22) and virtual meetings. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Do not multi-task (do other work) during the meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The E-Mediat Implementation Partners at SF Planning Meeting. It is important to have a face-to-face meeting to get started and most importantly to build relationships and trust. This is especially important when you are working cross-culturally. In some cases, partners will not have met face-to-face before they work together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

The strategic approach encourages you to analyze your network, find alignment for making connections, and have purpose-driven meetings. As Kathyrn Minshew, CEO of the Daily Muse, notes in her HBR post, “ Never Say No To Networking ” it is hard to make the time to get out of the office when you are working long days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The overall goal was to provide participants with a combination of insights and practical tips to help them be effective. This face-to-face master class and mini-workshops will be followed with a smaller peer learning group that will meet regularly to compare notes as they put the ideas into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

I put a sticky note on my computer that reminds to “pay myself first.&# I try (when not traveling) to do my professional learning at the same time each day. I spend 15-30 minutes reading RSS feeds or Tweets and 15 minutes thinking about something I learned. The challenge is adding it your routine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I pretended to be the skeptical executive director of the Salt Lake County and had called a meeting with staff person implementing social media to ask why they were spending so much time using social media when I thought it was clearly a waste of time. Next, we did a role-play. I had a brave volunteer from the audience and we did a role play.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

pounds of reports and notes on an out-of-town trip or across town to a. client meeting. notebooks and sticky notes. You might have a copy of a document you need to review sitting on your desk; relevant notes from a board member or. contacts, wages, performance evaluations, notes, and associated. Storing and.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

There are only pictures,” you know you aren’t meeting expectations. In the end, we went with sticky notes, pencils and plenty of wall space. Off-color and off-topic notes (i.e., To date, the solution has been to put photos on the walls, pray for funding, and ignore the front-end evaluation bit. magnetic poetry).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. At its most basic, we can describe any meeting with at least one remote participant as a hybrid meeting. Center Inclusion. Inclusion is the “I” word in “DEI.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It was very exciting to finally meet people on the In-Country Leadership Teams face-to-face. Then each person introduced themselves to the group using the sticky notes and added them to the wall. Each country was represented in a different color.

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