Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

This is a terrific write up of the session I presented on “ Learning in Public “ Bridge Building or Trust Busting – a Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? Otherwise, the whole exercise can end up being frustrating. – Guest post by Stefan Lanfer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises. Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Some Reflections. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

More recent books on these methods include Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo and Visual Meetings by David Sibbet (I took David Sibbet’s workshop on visual meeting facilitation and wrote up some reflections here.). Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have been using this technique for the past couple of months to incorporate walking and exercise into my day. The benefit of moving around helps with concentration. Capacity Reflection' While some procrastination can be beneficial, it can reduce your productivity if it gets out of hand. How do you procrastinate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

” I first used this exercise in 2011 in Lebanon to kick off E-Mediat project that brought trainers and capacity builders from 5 countries in the Middle East to be trained on curriculum based on my book, the Networked Nonprofit , and interactive training techniques. .” Each country was represented in a different color.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The value of this exercise was that it inspired me to rethink my routine about bedtime rituals. hours per night, I felt a lot better and had much more discipline to start to build other healthy habits – such as daily exercise. Identify a goal, track your progress, and reflect on how to improve your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session. What I Was Inspired To Adapt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises. I ask them to generate a list of keep, tweak, and delete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. We decided to use an understanding exercise, a SWOT analysis related to the topics. Reflection and Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

She immediately had us moving around and introducing ourselves to new people, reflecting on our experience in both personal and professional networks. Each table was called the “Home Team” and after the various exercises we came back to home team to process and reflect. ” Video streaming by Ustream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. The study was of medical school lectures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Dan observes, “Overall, the response was positive that such analysis allows the team to be more intentional about weaving a national network for a specific campaign/advocacy outcome.&#. Before you can carry out this exercise, you need to understand the vocabulary of networks. Share your map with other groups doing the exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

After Jane’s keynote, Harold lead a master class with practical exercises on how to “learn the new” or manage/design and use a professional learning network. Then asked us to do analysis based on: Age. He asked to reflect on our network map. He asked us to list them. Organization. Hierarchical Position.

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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? Some excellent ideas here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

” I’ve found that scheduling walking meetings is a great way to get to know people and you get some exercise into your day! (I’m List them and do an analysis based on: Age. In the HBR article, Cross suggests asking these two very important analysis questions: What benefits do your interactions with them provide?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. I also created some fun group exercises for folks to learn the concepts. And, most importantly, designed for people to have fun doing it. (I'm Pscyho Socialgraphics!!

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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. Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. Your logo, tagline, key messages, and website will reflect your brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. A good exercise is to try to convert your intangibles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. After we had all the sticky notes on the board, we had generated a landscape analysis from the grantee’s point of view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Well, at least I started off the morning with some vigorous cardio exercise at the gym -- a killer spin class before I logged onto a conference call to talk about the NpTechTag issues with NpTechers today. I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Debriefing Giving Tuesday: Why It Matters Post-campaign analysis is not just a retrospective exercise; it’s a forward-looking approach to refine your nonprofit’s fundraising tactics. A thorough debrief after Giving Tuesday helps identify what worked, what didn’t, and how to leverage these insights for future campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

We'll explore how games can scale up learning to build capacity for thousands of grassroots organizations. -- I missed a lot the first presenter's piece, but got the end here: Ways of knowing and Ways of doing - reflection in action. Someone who takes action and reflect on it. The answers after gave them more analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

A quick analysis of the types (create a visual with mindmanager - concentric circles? See also Marc's post w/more reflections. Also, CPSquared action learning exercise on using tagging -- round up here. or something like this ?). What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. That, however, WILL not be reflected in our webstats for a while, if at all. Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. 7 Beth Kanter 09.21.07

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s a hard task, but is a great exercise to try. Detailed analysis of the needs your mission seeks to help. Analysis of your environment. This SWOT analysis will help you identify the key challenges and opportunities facing your organization, and will serve as the foundation for your business plan.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 For me, blogging is a wonderful way to add reflection and analysis to my design practice, and I'm flattered that you want to come along with me on that reflection. I started the Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

One reflection exercise is to look at your posts and notice which ones attract more comments than others. You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Here's a recent analysis of the "best" posts on my blog and I need to go figure out what the numbers mean. It takes time. View | Upload your own. Technorati ???Authority???

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. But it is a great planning tool and exercise. So definitely, that’s been top of mind and something that I’ve seen quite frequently. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

A lot of women reflected back to us that they felt oftentimes like the families would treat them as if they were a part of the family, so that then their work was in some ways made invisible. I think that this analysis of what the problem is, ultimately impacts our ideas of what the solutions are going to be to fixing those problems.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

On one hand, those who decide that technology will be their vocations need to push for roles and titles that reflect what they really do. Balance long-term vision and basic day-to-day needs, and exercise good project planning and control Plan your work and work your plan. Get good at cost/benefit analysis and measuring ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

" I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment. I'm struggling to learn Google Analytics, so I thought it might be a useful exercise to go through his framework with my own blog. Kaushik's advice is: For your blog, personal or professional I recommend a goal setting exercise.

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