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. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Like many other activities in participatory philanthropy, this approach considers the process to be as important as the outcomes. This can range from them being consulted to owning the results.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Incorporate these six elements into your website to see better fundraising results: 1. Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). Motivational imagery.

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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 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. Making: Methods for Envisioning Future Possibilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Here’s a few ideas, concepts, and insights from the book that resonated.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? The post starts off with general guidance.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If your organization maintains an active presence on social media platforms , include social media links on your website. By facilitating and encouraging volunteer engagement, you benefit your organization and foster a sense of community and purpose among your supporters. A blog A blog is a crucial element of any nonprofit website.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. The video calls have a consistent structure to them. The result was a three-minute video complete with music, edited with the help of our Tech Director. We decided to create another thank you video, this time using Zoom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics. Share your story!

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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. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

She has tremendous knowledge on managing the day-to-day challenges of fundraising and enjoys facilitating the decision-making process with clients. Not sure your organization is going to experience these results? Many donors see active fundraising volunteers as a sign of strength for the project – and they certainly are!

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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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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

And you’re far from the only one; studies report that 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work. Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Talent attraction. Enhanced community impact.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When people are actively involved in your campaign, more of them will give to your campaign and they will give more generously. It often includes powerful and well-connected people, and you’ll want to make sure that the meetings are well-planned and structured. participate actively in the discussion. It’s not hard to do that.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C This focus on partnerships across social justice and climate justice movements resulted in 350.org’s

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Nonprofit database segmentation allows you to structure your data to support reporting, personalization, and overall engagement. It can be used to facilitate critical tasks that keep people invested in your mission. Recurring donors may receive fewer appeals (they’re already actively giving!)

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

You must proactively practice the craft of fundraising to reap active participation in philanthropy. Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. Look at the following: (1) Does it have an intuitive navigation structure? (2)

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

These core steps will give your event planning team a solid structure upon which you can build your auction strategies. Online auction software for planning the event and facilitating bids is the primary expense associated with hosting your first virtual auction. Develop an event marketing strategy. Encourage early engagement.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees. It will help them participate in volunteer programs, sustainability initiatives, and other CSR activities. This ultimately results in cost savings and increased productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

“ The Talent Development Pipeline ” is more of a workbook, and offers up a step-by-step guide about how to develop a results-driven system to keep talent at your nonprofit. You combine the two in order to map professional development needs to organizational goals and then customize learning activities based on learning style.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Our session used the following structure. Even though both campaigns did not achieve the same dramatic results as the first year, the “new normal” was spectacular. For ALS, the average age of their donors plunged from age 50 to age 30 and they brought in people who were not directly impacted by the disease.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

” For one of the sessions, we focused on a methodology of how to make sense of data from Facebook Insights to improve the relevance of content and engagement activities. As one participant noted, “The consistent monthly time to reflect about learning was invaluable.” Measure Networked Nonprofit.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

or B- average — underwhelming results for the top leaders of their organizations and such high achieving individuals. Structure yourself for success. One of the secrets to engaging board members in activities that they may be nervous about is to thoughtfully celebrate successes whenever they take place. Celebrate success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Leaders have had some great opportunities as a result of COVID-19. Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. Progress is not the same as activity. Topping the list: hire the best people, not just the best people geographically convenient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. In comparison, 10 years ago, these managers spent “only” 60 to 65 per cent of their time engaged in those activities. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them. NGOs that build social capital and weave their networks can achieve better results. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leaders have had some great opportunities as a result of COVID-19. Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. Progress is not the same as activity. Topping the list: hire the best people, not just the best people geographically convenient.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Leaders have had some great opportunities as a result of COVID-19. Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. Progress is not the same as activity. Topping the list: hire the best people, not just the best people geographically convenient.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. Thanks to APIs, you’re able to “plug” different applications together to achieve a desired result.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

1) Focus the agenda on results. Look for ways to structure real discussions among board members that will elicit commitment and leadership. Discussions of this nature will activate your board members’ various backgrounds and skills sets, not to mention their interest. 3) Focus on problems, challenges, or broad issues.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. He's explicit about different project structures and their implications, listing five levels of participation and three of non-participation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In addition, turnover causes distraction as board members and senior leaders turn their attention towards recruiting and onboarding, resulting in critical productivity loss (Landles-Cobb, Kramer, Smith Milway, 2015). Planning and facilitating fundraising events. Joining meetings with funders.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

You’ll learn how to navigate a search engine results page with confidence and amplify your nonprofit’s reach and engagement in organic search. Header tags: Header tags contribute to both the logical structure of content, aiding search engines in understanding information hierarchy, and the readability of the page for users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Collective intelligence refers to the outcomes generated by pooling knowledge from diverse groups, using it to research and debate and then refining the resulting understanding into useful and actionable information. Four or five decades of organizational development and organization change theory, practice and results have shown us that.

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