Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I always incorporate an icebreaker, a short exercise that lets people introduce themselves and tap into existing knowledge. Show an alternative use of the napkin by tearing or folding. Note From Beth: Having good openers (and closers) are essential to the success of your training workshop. Materials: paper napkin for everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Formative Evaluation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 7, 2023

What’s the alternative? Inorganically attempting to mandate a different culture is an exercise in total futility. But you argue that most culture change efforts fail because leaders try to change it by mandate. Martin : Culture forms organically over time as members of the organization work together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

He lead us on a series of improvisation exercises designed to teach important skills for networked leaders: empathy, awareness, celebrating failure, being open to change and more. David’s improv exercises were designed to help us stretch this muscle and apply to our social change work. Of course, we messed up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Alternately, If you are using Zoom, set up a personal room that is open 24/7 for people to drop into. Everyone gets a triple bonus – fresh air and exercise, camaraderie, and new ideas ( walking meetings are known to be valuable for improving creativity ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief. Wall Writing: This an exercise where participants will write specific responses on labeled charts on the wall at designated times. .” I like to use as a closer, but perhaps it could be offered as an alternative for the introverted in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Diagnosed with learning disabilities early in life, he was forced to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. Among the habits you might want to track: daily exercise, daily sleep hours, not eating lunch in front of your computer, checking email only twice a day, counting how much water you drink, writing morning pages, etc.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Well, it is simply an exercise to bring users back to the site and increase activity by complaining about it. Old comment sections on previous learning exercises are perfect fodder to experiment with social learning. Ever wonder why Facebook rolls out changes that are deemed so unpopular by their usage base?

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Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

Train like a champion, diet, exercise, or take performance-enhancing supplements? Helps you edit and revise your work by suggesting alternative phrasing and word choices. In the same way that 5 years ago it was hard to imagine that you’d be using tools like Slack and ZOOM daily, we see this shift as inevitable.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Why should I want to participate in this learning exercise? Combine this sentiment with the inclusion of social platforms, and you have all the makings for a solid learning alternative that can take a fledgling program and produce something that is incredibly viable and sustainable. Building Intrinsic Course Motivation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. You also need to design good openers and closers !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Packard and the TCC Group collaborated on an alternative approach evaluating the foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. Otherwise, the whole exercise can end up being frustrating. All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki. You may get participation because you’re a funder doing the asking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

What would be an alternative? But developing your sense-making skills and the ability to do it in less time is like exercising a muscle. The key is making a habit in the way that we seek out and share information on the Internet and social web. Is the same as something else? Is it the best? Why or why not? Content'

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Alternatively, you can also pre-record your live-stream. A virtual race can be based on any type of exercise. It is usually walking or running but you could also think about cycling, swimming or a particular exercise that is more suited to your audience. Feel free to use elements of both. Virtual Race.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. These touches will only increase the drive to accomplish the entirety of the learning exercise, as well as aid in. As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Interactive.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

The less work that you can complete through the import tool, the more work you will have to address alternatively. A data migration is not an exercise in maintaining bad data practices. Unfortunately, based on our experience, the quality of these tools varies. For a cloud-based and proprietary CRM databases, your options are limited.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SSDs have been around in various forms for a long time , but only in recent years have manufacturers started seriously marketing them to consumers as an alternative to traditional hard drives. Running Windows Vista on an early 32 gigabyte SSD was an exercise in pain and frustration on so many levels. What's not to love?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Alternatively, for-profit organizations can generally choose how they want to distribute work across their team and whether they want to see certain projects through or wrap them up before completion. Project-reliant staffing: Many nonprofits depend on grants and other forms of project or program-specific funding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

Getting their start-up off the ground with alternative sources of funding , with particular attention the payoff of crowdfunding and pointers on preparing an effective reward or equity campaign.and more Schroeder is the Director of Programs at the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center at San Diego State University. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2013

The executive committee shall have the authority and may exercise the powers of the board of directors, but shall not take any of the actions set forth in A.R.S. directors as alternate members of any committee, to act as a substitute. Section 10-3825.E E or any successor or amended statute. when necessary. committee. (10-10-3825.F.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! Next we did a series of small group exercises for participants to identify their stress triggers and reactions to stress. .” Next, to applaud an idea they liked and finally an idea they were wildly excited by. One of the counselors did a visual of the meter.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As you consider these questions, here are two important exercises that will help you clarify your vision and goals: 1. An alternative is to find an established organization you can partner with or who will serve as your fiscal sponsor. Sit down and write out the answers to these questions. This will help you gain clarity of mission.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

It's available, but it's not the point of the whole exercise. As she puts it: I didn’t want the fantasy label immediately next to the real information, thus spoiling the approach (’really you thought we were going to fun but really its business as usual’). Instead, the museum mounted the real information ("What they actually are!")

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

I’d like to suggest an alternative, focused on what I am adopting as the 2016 word of the year— Gratitude. And the alternative is this. Instead of adopting resolutions about what we eat, drink or how much we exercise, why not be guided by being thankful?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 24, 2013

Alternatively, reducing risk exposure, enhancing brand equity, or motivating and retaining staff can be “make or break” considerations for key internal stakeholders. Don’t forget the intangible benefits of your proposal. Procurement Technology Board Budgeting Business Case IT planning ROI Strategy technology'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2013

Alternately, you can adjust the question while you gather the right information. Without going through this exercise, you limit yourself to your existing data and avoid pursuing the data necessary to answer the most valuable question. Do: Say Away from Assumptions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. Here are my three big takeaways from The Art of Gathering : Hosting is an exercise in courageous leadership. I didn't know how to kick off a productive conversation, make group decisions, or close a meeting with energy. The weird thing is that that wasn't true.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. During the two-hour session, we did a brainstorming exercise that I learned from Carol Lloyd, author of Creating a Life Worth Living.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Alternatively, this could be an open-ended assessment in which the learner is asked to write about their conclusions. Matching, labeling, and sorting exercises involve organizing elements on a page, similar to sequencing assessments.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2013

Okay, I’m exercising some creative license there. If you’ve done all you can to ensure that they know how to properly enter data, then perhaps it’s time to consider more drastic alternatives. Theme #1: “Our users are out to maliciously harm our database.”. But don’t simply jump to modify their security at the user-level.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. I tried to picture an alternative with AleiaBrown and Adrianne Russell ’s # MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and LaTonya S. And, well, the whole exercise was depressing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

  When I've used this exercise, I've tried to keep it focus on tools for either external communication or internal collaboration, although he does color code the outcomes (collaboratoin, media content/networking, etc.). .    Alternately, you could add a sentence into the objective cards that describes the audience.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Often not, but the exercise of trying to do so is often worth the effort. Be sure to double check, and consider alternatives such as changing business processes. Get crystal clear on what users and stakeholders are really trying to accomplish.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling. More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible.

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