Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Networked Facilitation.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. Every employee must have a stake in that vision.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

You can tap into this diversity to create a collaborative environment. Assign roles that play to each member’s strengths and facilitate open, continuous communication. Once onboard, equip them with the knowledge and tools they need through a comprehensive onboarding process, ensuring they’re ready to hit the ground running.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Equip your new board members with the knowledge, resources, and connections they need to succeed from day one. Adopt technologies that simplify collaboration and enhance communication , like board portals or other real-time tools. Encourage active participation. Foster a collaborative culture. Welcome them aboard.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. More specifically, datamaking is an action whereby we transform information into data so that data can contribute to knowledge.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. It recognizes that leadership can emerge from anyone within a group and emphasizes collaboration, trust, and inclusivity.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

However, in the dynamic landscape of contemporary social change, there is a growing recognition of the need to evolve from this conventional approach toward a more collaborative and inclusive model—one grounded in partnership. The nonprofit governance orthodoxy Nonprofit governance operates within a framework of three legal duties.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Participants can benefit from leadership development, knowledge sharing, network building, collaborations or partnerships, and/or compensation. . This means that staff—as well as those with wealth—move back to listen and implement the ideas and knowledge brought into the room by these participants.

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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. All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having one (or more) active and highly functioning advisory committees fosters resilience, creativity, and even resource development for your organization. So, as you work to define your advisory committee’s focus, ask yourself and your team: What type of experience and knowledge do we need more of to carry out our mission?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. Also by Elizabeth Ngonzi: How NGOs Worldwide Can Use Digital Storytelling to Access, Attract and Activate U.S.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity. Their grassroots activism brings important perspectives. Collaborate with AAPI leaders to ensure your programming is authentic and resonates well. AAPI business leaders and entrepreneurs.

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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 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." Via a post on David Wilcox's blog entitled " What does it take for online collaboration to work at events? At one end, the communicator sends a message.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 25, 2022

“In the future, we will make full use of social networking services to spread the data and findings of our Climate Action Lab activity. Ultimately, the knowledge students gain will positively affect their lifestyle choices and change the way an entire generation thinks about sustainability and its impact on their local and global communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â??

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy. Performing an activity that leads to a dopamine release becomes a system of behavior and reward. One way to do this is by having an impartial moderator or facilitator. Appeal to Emotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. ” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition. Further, they can understand their own knowledge and areas of improvement that they should seek to alleviate. What is the importance of eLearning assessments?

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

With an online audience, event organizers must work harder to foster meaningful connections between attendees and actively provide networking possibilities. Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. Virtual Networking Ideas. Virtual Scavenger Hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Within the modules, I break it down in 15 minute blocks.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Collaborate with peers : Engage with other fundraisers and organizations to share insights and best practices. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? Do you have a fundraising plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. To say that social media facilitates distraction is not to say that social media has to control your awareness – you can take control back and through repeated conscious efforts.

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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. When all leaders are working together and have developed the project and plans collaboratively, it inspires the rest of the team to move in the same direction.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy. Performing an activity that leads to a dopamine release becomes a system of behavior and reward. One way to do this is by having an impartial moderator or facilitator. Appeal to Emotion.

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Virtual Brain Storytelling Audience 52

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

One must not valorize the knowledge and values the giver intends to share. With this, organizations must collaborate and answer: What nonprofit outreach methods are most effective for community engagement? Simple outreach activities include providing literature like brochures, materials and giveaway items marketing the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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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? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. She graciously did this interview with me to share more of her knowledge. She founded the firm to leverage my background in finance, education, and environmental areas. How can they get started?

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Nonprofit Learning Lab / Denver, CO / $90. Nonprofit Management.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

For the organization, it is a means of ensuring staff and volunteers are knowledgeable, making them exceptional ambassadors for the organization in and outside of work. New to workshop planning and facilitation? " How to Run a Workshop " is a comprehensive, practical guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials – We know they are young, tech savvy and well-educated-but they are also some of the most active when it comes to donating and volunteering. Finally, they have collaboration and networking skills that are in their DNA that they can bring to the nonprofit workplace. Cat herding skills?).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

Brian serves as the Founder of BPOZ Brand Leadership and is a Founding Partner of Curious Collaborations. Here are 5 strategies to activate and sustain Brand Leadership in your organization: 1) Start with Leadership Obviously, Brand Leadership must start with leaders. Everywhere you look these days, people are talking about leadership.

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