Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. 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.

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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. Both shared tips and practice advice. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.)

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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. Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti. Getting to Know and Cultivating Free Agents: Here’s my best advice on this. They had social content.

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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. A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything. I depend on this person regularly for important advice and have worked with them on more than one project.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? What advice do you have for those struggling with their reinvention? Van Gorder : Spend time with them. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? What advice do you have for those struggling with their reinvention? Van Gorder : Spend time with them. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. Happy New Year ! How about you? I write down stuff I won’t do, a “no thanks” list.

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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. Danielle Brigida, NWF – Training Staff. How can you train and coordinate all staff on social to scale your strategy?

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APRIL 27, 2021

Expert Advice to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit. Q: WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO NONPROFITS TO PREVENT BURNOUT FROM SPREADING? You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques. Invest in your people: Provide training to invest in employee wellbeing, not just a day off or a pizza party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I was most interested in Part 2 (pages 17-21) because I think the advice is applicable to organizations beyond those managing head start programs. It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. There is not a reflection process for analyzing success or failure for future use.

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JUNE 9, 2016

Below are the issues portrayed and mitigation techniques: Difficult to Formulate Content: In less user-friendly systems it is important to design content with the implementation in mind. But I digress, this post will explore manners in which people in these sorts of environments could make their lives a little easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? What lies beneath this?

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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. Gordon Meyer has good reflection on the Community Media Workshop Blog). (2) Also, some new types of questions about training and education approaches for nonprofits and specific tips for under-resourced nonprofits. Comfort Levels.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? What advice do you have for those struggling with their reinvention? Van Gorder : Spend time with them. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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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. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January is a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. Making and Caring for My Soul from Marlowe Miller, Professor of English and Associate, UML Center for Women and Work shares the power of being creative as a stress reduction technique.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? What advice do you have for those struggling with their reinvention? Van Gorder : Spend time with them. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

It gets even better: Avinash is donates all proceeds from his books to two charities: The Smile Train and The Ekai Vidyalaya Foundation. While the advice in the book is geared for tests to improve a web site, these are translatable to social media experiments. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I shared examples of question frameworks designed for specific types of visitor experiences: personal framing of exhibits (as in Facing Mars), private sharing (like the Storycorps booths), public dialogue (as in the Advice exhibit), and so on. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research. Leary (NRG!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2007

As a result, I'm reflecting on my comfort level. Does this express the tension between having the culture of learning and the culture of training! The father of screencasting, Jon Udell , who of course is a technical expert in everything, uses this technique -- the screencast interview or talk show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Yikes, there are no rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2014

It is not just about an individuals self-directed learning but also groups of self-learners or peer learning cohorts that I design and facilitate as part of my training work. ” Here’s a few more techniques that nonprofits have used for extracting learning to improve what they’re doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

She also included some practical advice. My take is that just because we have the tools, a youthful enthusiasm for generosity, and the desire to do something, there is a need for sharing of best practices and techniques. This provides a great opportunity for those who focused on leadership, organizing, and philanthropic training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Finally, here's a screencast on strategic blog commenting, although a lot of the advice is mostly for those who already have a blog, much can be learned. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

This post is a roundup of what I learned from the speakers at the conference and some reflections on the workshops. Workshop/Training Reflections. We had examples from the US and UK – and an interesting discussion bubbled up about the difference in approaches, and how online persona reflect a country’s social norms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

He says that she has been invaluable on advice on both organizational posts and personal posts involving the organization and how to follow social media best practices and say out of trouble. Dan mentions that their biggest legal concern is violating UBIT Guidelines with sponsorships. Legal Issues and Social Media.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. We reflected on the applications to leadership.

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JULY 17, 2021

And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. And so their job is a reflection of that.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Drucker provides the following good advice in one of my favorite books of his, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization :" Every mission statement has to reflect three things : Opportunities Competence Commitment In other words, he explains: What is our purpose? Author Peter F.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Did the employee reflect the best image for the company? ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi. Did the employee thank the caller?

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