Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

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 pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings.

Professional 111

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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 pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings.

Professional 96

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

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.

Professional 89

Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2012

So, here goes.Lynn's year-end advice for leaders: • Do something that you are afraid to do. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. EWF International provides professionally facilitated peer advisory groups for women business owners and executives. Run through the fear rather than running away from it.

Advice 73

Advice Tulsa Exercise Profit 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Which one you select depends on the activity and group dynamics.

Exercise 177

Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

VQ Strategies

JANUARY 3, 2023

Join two of my co-editors, Doug Bolton and Jerome Tennille, and me for a conversation about service days — the benefits and challenges — and hear their advice to rethinking these approaches to volunteering and community impact. Check out our new Transforming Disruption to Impact Book Group Facilitation Guide !

Conversation 98

Conversation Service Broadcast Volunteer 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw. 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.

Journal 148

Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. An insight is a learning that leads to new value.

Leadership 92

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 92

Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Advice or recommendations to board of directors . To facilitate the use of the program out of the box, several r eports come automatically loaded to the dashboard. Subscriptions: Information on those who have subscriptions to your association’s publications and data on various publications from your group . Committee work .

Director 127

Director Associations Software Management 127

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2011

So, here goes.Lynn's year-end advice for leaders: • Do something that you are afraid to do. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. EWF International provides professionally facilitated peer advisory groups for women business owners and executives. Run through the fear rather than running away from it.

Advice 62

Advice Tulsa Exercise Profit 62

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Their expertise can provide tailored advice and strategies for implementing new standards effectively. Broadly grouped expenses or revenues can obscure the allocation of funds across different programs. It automates and facilitates these comparisons, allowing for more efficient monitoring and decision-making.

Activities 79

Activities Active Activism Comparison 79

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. The Governing Board took the Advisory Board’s advice to heart and created a series of achievable goals rather than a hard deadline. How will communications with the group work? How long will terms be?

Roles 111

Roles Nonprofit Government Advice 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2018

Last month I was lucky enough to run into Maia Duerr who participated in Wake’s Tech2EmpowerUSA at a workshop I was facilitating on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit. The advice is based on Maia’s extensive experience as a career coach and mindfulness practice. Value your gifts and time.

Review 91

Review Work Exercise Reflection 91

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?

Reflection 124

Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. An insight is a learning that leads to new value.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

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. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. The “S” stands for slowest pace sets the pace for the group – it isn’t a race. … Read More.

Detroit 77

Detroit Instruction Instructional PPT 77

AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

If hosting a conference with groups arriving from the same office, you can group them. Have venue or event staff on hand to help enforce and facilitate this flow. Following our advice and using a registration and event management platform can help. This prevents large cohorts of people from arriving at the same time.

Registration 93

Registration Virtual Guidelines Hosting 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” And I love facilitating, designing, and delivering workshops on this topic! Measurement'

Social Media 112

Social Media Metrics Media Measure 112

sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthcare website visitors search for crucial medical advice, doctors’ names and contact information, a map of your facility, or other must-have information. Then, group individuals based on shared characteristics. For instance, you might create personas for different age groups, such as young, middle-aged, and elderly visitors.

Websites 77

Websites Organization Tips Map 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. All of these work well with small groups and inside of organizations. Does your organization encourage staff to use reflective practice?

Reflection 119

Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Here are some examples of the questions you can ask adult learners to write down and then discuss in small groups.

Evaluation 128

Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

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.

Professional 101

Professional Network Learning Lebanon 101

.orgSource

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.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

The public health advice is to social distance, but we also need to mental distance from news and discussion about the virus. Here’s a simple set of desk stretches that you can do alone or as a group. There are lots of useful resources created by nonprofits to help facilitate kindness and mutual aid.

Tips 168

Tips Exercise Nonprofit News 168

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.

Tunisia 99

Tunisia NGO Facilitation Calendar 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

His organization has a Cause and Group. Michael has been focusing on doing outreach on Facebook: I have been building relationships with the other group administrators, and regularly participate in some 47 medical groups. To facilitate the conversations, they need to keep the content on the Cause and Group pages fresh.

Social Network 50

Social Network Advice Network Strategy 50

sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

They may be searching for crucial medical advice, doctors’ names and contact information, a map of your facility, or other must-have information. Consider your audience’s demographics and group audience members based on shared characteristics. This can establish your organization as a reputable, trustworthy institution. Let’s dive in!

Websites 76

Websites Organization Tips Map 76

Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

The high ROI of planned gifts and their accessibility to wider groups of donors has always made them a smart investment of your time and development resources. While you should leave explicit financial or estate planning advice to the professionals, there are other steps you should still take.

Gift 52

Gift Team Fund Donor 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The second session used a conferencing software that allowed the whole group to break into small group discussions on the phone line. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out.

Design 107

Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. How Strong Is Your Social Net?

Social Media 106

Social Media Arts Social Attitude 106

AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

If hosting a conference with groups arriving from the same office, you can group them. Have venue or event staff on hand to help enforce and facilitate this flow. Following our advice and using a registration and event management platform can help. This prevents large cohorts of people from arriving at the same time.

Registration 52

Registration Virtual Guidelines Hosting 52

Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

One of my favorite assignments, though, is what we call “Train the Trainer” (T3), where I will work with a group of folks who will later put on a different hat and train their colleagues on new software.

Training 39

Training Train Advice Software 39

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. 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.

Morocco 100

Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this roundup, I compiled the best year-end fundraising advice from several nonprofit consultants in my network. From Sabrina Walker Hernandez, Founder of Supporting World Hope and consultant, coach, facilitator, and bestselling author. If you had one piece of advice for successful end-of-year fundraising what would it be?

Advice 116

Advice Consultant Fundraising Nonprofit 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

For two of the peer learning groups , we explored best practices for using Facebook strategically as part of an integrated communications plan based on this content ( [link] ). I think the same advice applies to the question of whether or not Executive Directors should use social media. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

Facebook 112

Facebook Change Profile Impact 112

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.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed.

Social Media 101

Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 101