Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

I shifted a lot of my content and advice to focus on creating a life-work balance when you work remotely and how to create a more connected virtual team as well as digital wellness. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Their expertise can provide tailored advice and strategies for implementing new standards effectively. Misinterpreting these restrictions can lead to the improper recognition of revenue and restricted net assets, skewing the report on available funds for designated activities or projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out. Designing Zoom Breakout Room Activities . Show & Tell: I learn this one from Andy Robinson, Train Your Board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? The Back Channel.

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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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The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

Stories surfaced reminding us of its pitfalls — from a lawyer citing fabricated court cases ( [link] ) to harmful advice delivered by an AI bot replacing a nonprofit’s helpline ( [link] ). Generative AI tools are trained on large amounts of data to understand the most likely best response. At Google, Bard becames Gemini.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 16, 2021

You’ll hear this advice over and over again from successful people with diverse backgrounds, from the likes of Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs. Similarly, Cendana’s advice to those interested in pursuing executive leadership roles is to find an executive director who is willing to mentor you. Find a mentor. And it’s true!

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MAY 1, 2023

Bill Bruce, CEO of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, gives this advice. “I Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. (See 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. Danielle Brigida, NWF – Training Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

” I was half-expecting to hear crickets in response, but people replied with humor and excellent advice. Someone suggested that I get a sled and slide down the chart! Another person astutely said, ”Good for you, you took a break.” That always gets folks talking and sharing.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. Explore a few of our past web design projects. Will you train your entire staff or just a select group of individuals who will then share training documents with their teams?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

She is passionate about creating engaging content, writing, and graphic design to help viewers easily retain information. Remember, since most of your volunteers probably haven’t participated in a P2P fundraiser before, they’ll need some advice and guidance to ensure they reach their personal fundraising goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As a Master Trainer, one of my favorite models of training adults is the Peer Learning Exchange where a group of participants who are working on a similar project or domain of practices interact regularly to learn how to do it better. How can we set an accurate, measurable goal for a Giving Day if it is our first one?

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APRIL 22, 2021

To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. They provide advice and guidance to help elevate your learning business, which your team would then put into action. Let’s get started. What is an eLearning consultant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

But the best part was the chance to work with Ellie Schindelman , director of education, who is a dynamic trainer – on the design of the program. 1. For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. Movement can really help.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2008

One idea that I'd like to try out here is a new weekly feature on Have Fun * Do Good called, Ask Britt: Q & A on Career Design for Artists and Activists. As some of you know, I've been doing career consulting workshops and one-on-one sessions since 1998 when I trained with Carol Lloyd to teach her Life Worth Living workshops.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

Photographing items and designing signage. Special roles for tracking item donations, making bid sheets or designing and displaying auction packages. Designing VIP experiences for sponsors and their guests. Training volunteers to work check-in and registration. Designing centerpieces. Creating an auction catalog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

The Network Weaver Handbook is designed to give you skills and resources you need to build effective and innovative networks. The handbook offers advice and resources for those who just starting out to those involved in well-established networks.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

Training your team and developing their communication skills will be essential. While you should leave explicit financial or estate planning advice to the professionals, there are other steps you should still take. Beneficiary designations. A donor can name your nonprofit as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. 5: Don’t interrupt or jump into giving advice. 3: Don’t judge the other person.

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Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

Use this category when you’re looking for board members’ advice on a subject. For instance, an agenda item that’s designed to seek input may include everyone tossing out theme ideas for an event down the line. This could include anything from deciding on a t-shirt design to sell to. Seek input. Arrive at a decision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. What: The art of social instructional design. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. I think you can design around it.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

It’s easy to push training to the bottom of a packed priority list, but it is truly an investment. Tons of organizations are offering free training – including Blackbaud! Schedule time on your calendar monthly for training so it doesn’t drop to the bottom of the priority list again! This is important because….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

My biggest problem as a facilitator was transitioning from the share pair back to full group. This idea came from Shiree Teng who I will have the honor of working with on an extended group training. Tags: scholar training materials. It helps people process what they are learning. I had been using chimes. How do we manage it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

So, I designed a training curriculum that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a process for learning from them. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. Self-Select Delivery Style.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. . Tags: remix scholar training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We had one person handling the technology and another person serving as moderator in the room. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked. What advice do you have for remote presenting? The other challenge is the lack of feedback from the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Also, some new types of questions about training and education approaches for nonprofits and specific tips for under-resourced nonprofits. Some advice from Twitter. Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a half-day “Digital Strategies&# seminar with Vince Ford, Director of Digital Media from the New York Philharmonic and leading a peer session for major orchestra marketing staff and youth orchestra executive directors with Makala Johnson who does Social Media for the Mayo Clinic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator. Jeremiah Owyang has a terrific post with some advice on how to do this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2012

Receive ideas, tips, resources, and cheerleading from the Juicy Blogging Circle’s facilitator (me!). The e-clinic includes five hours of training and personal coaching via webinars where you'll learn how to create a relevant blog that keeps supporters tuned in to your nonprofit.

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