Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Imagine scenarios of use, and provoke and inspire alternatives. Look at both the detail and the big picture. Make things to explore, test and learn. Make the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar. Has your nonprofit used design thinking for strategy, problem solving, or new idea generation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Show an alternative use of the napkin by tearing or folding. Icebreakers Can Be Fun! Also, fun results!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In alternative data models, however, the same person can show up twice, meaning that both the account and contact would appear in search results. It facilitates more unified reporting. It supports quick and easy search results. With Person Accounts, accounts show up just once in search results.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Alternatively, you could forsake a participant application process in favor of shifting power immediately. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making. Always be mindful of the burden you’re placing on applicants.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You can facilitate donors’ participation by telling the story of their tangible impact. Alternatively, you could use a match as a way to steward a gift that you have already received. What is the quantifiable impact of each dollar amount raised? How many people will your organization provide ‘x’ resource with ‘y’ dollar amount?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. Alternately, you can imagine yourself doing an activity that energizes you. Here are the techniques: Meeting Ritual: A Moment of Quiet: Many people who work at nonprofits are often in many meetings, often scheduled back-to-back, everyday.

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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. The pandemic has inspire a new breed of online collaboration apps that facilitate drop in video chatting for serendipitous conversations that your team might want to test. These can be useful for 1:1 check-ins. .

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Facilitate a stronger relationship by sharing compelling personal stories related to your nonprofit. Simple language free of jargon.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, as businesses continue to seek ways to uphold their revenue and persevere through this complicated time, many industries are turning towards virtual and hybrid events to stay connected and drive revenue through alternative avenues. . The real estate industry is one that has been profoundly affected by the pandemic.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

While lockdowns and stay at home orders are in place, virtual events are the best alternative to postponing or canceling an event altogether. Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. .

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

While your traditional events are likely on a pause right now, your nonprofit should still have effective event management tools to facilitate registration and other related processes. For instance, if your website has many images, make sure to also include some sort of text or audio alternative for those who might be visually impaired.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Donate buttons can also be easily implemented and Facebook facilitates other ways their users can show non-monetary support through drives, volunteering and crisis response. . Can Facebook fundraising and Peer-to-Peer Platforms work together?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The World Health Organization says this theme “serves as a powerful call to action and reminder that there is an alternative to suicide and that through our actions, we can encourage hope and strengthen prevention.” The 2023 theme follows the triennial theme established in 2021: “Creating Hope Through Action.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

They decided that it is fair use both to create a full-text searchable database of copyrighted works and to provide those works in alternate formats that are accessible to patrons with disabilities. Furthermore, they even decided the Authors Guild did not have standing to bring the suit in the first place.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy. Oversight—Will the organization’s staff facilitate committee meetings, or will the committee elect a chair/co-chairs? Perhaps you want a committee comprised solely of people with lived experience related to your nonprofit’s mission—i.e.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary. Tell your organization’s story.

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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! Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Formative Evaluation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. Fundraising event alternatives. The bottom line: if you can’t reach your donors, you can’t solicit them. Inside the kit, you’ll find templates for promoting your: COVID-19 relief fund.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

They take you on a journey, explaining points of interest along the way and facilitating the act of discovery. If simply telling your boss what to do doesn’t work, you need to find an alternate route. How might you direct this boss to their own inner wisdom and power so they might see the possibility of some leeway or alternate option?

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, as businesses continue to seek ways to uphold their revenue and persevere through this complicated time, many industries are turning towards virtual and hybrid events to stay connected and drive revenue through alternative avenues. . The real estate industry is one that has been profoundly affected by the pandemic.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

An app-based scavenger hunt can also facilitate a hybrid event if you have participants who are more comfortable virtually attending. Promote the event on all of your social media platforms and find an event registration and management system that facilitates donations and makes signing up for occasions like this simple and painless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2015

The proposed session title “ Go Reboot Yourself: Get A Grip on Tech ” and I hope to be co-facilitating with Aliza Sherman, a web and social mobile pioneer whose work helped shape the early new media industry. It’s a very competitive process with 10 ideas being pitched for every one selected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary. Prioritize accessibility.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events. Then, they can read about what foods will be present at the event and take necessary precautions like bringing medication or alternative foods in order to safely attend.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. For online training, the right tools can help facilitate a similar type of engagement. Take your onboarding online. Keep your volunteers engaged.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Follow accessibility guidelines such as ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background colors, adding alternative text to images, putting captions on videos, and making it possible to navigate the site with keyboard controls. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. Prioritize SEO.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Organization Mission: The California State Parks Foundation delivers innovative solutions for an excellent park system by facilitating park improvements, inspiring stewardship, supporting partners, advocating for sound policies, and connecting people to 280 state parks to enjoy now and for generations to come. Instagram: @energyleaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! Here’s a quick video.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founders of Yahoo! Schroeder calls this The LeanModel Framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Easily replaced with free or lower-cost alternatives. This could mean hosting virtual events , selling tickets to subject matter expert-led discussions, facilitating complex certifications, or including introductory courses for free and charging for more advanced continuing education (CE) opportunities. Membership Pricing Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development. I do this all the time.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

Briefly remind members what you’ve offered them in the past year by mentioning: Successful events you’ve planned Community-building activities you’ve facilitated Services or opportunities you’ve offered After a quick jaunt down memory lane, your member should be able to fondly recall all they’ve gained after a year as a member of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. What would be an alternative? Harold Jarche (Click for Original Article). The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.” Is it the best?

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