Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

The goal with your analysis is to have actionable data. Format for your stakeholders’ preferences and needs Once you have a good sense of your analysis and recommendations, you need to think about how you package it for different decision makers. Clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are crucial for meaningful analysis.

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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. Then I used the Salt Lake County Public Health Department Social Media Case Study to do a simulation. Next, we did a role-play.

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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! But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. 3. The Evaluation Survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Here’s some additional thoughts sparked by our conversation after reflecting on various blog posts I’ve written and others. You can do a whole network analysis. The notes are here. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. A previously recorded video was presented and I participated in the backchannel Twitter stream while Allison delivered the keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. The best thing about having a transcript like this it allowed me to do a pattern analysis and learning assessment of the tweets. This will help improve the networked learning design for next time. Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. I always create a lesson plan, a more detailed agenda, that includes topics, bullet points, timings, processes, and materials, even if I am the only one facilitating the class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. What is the heart of the matter for grantors and grantees?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.”

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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. Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

After a welcome by Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute was our facilitator. She also traced the history of nonprofit capacity building field and how the unit of analysis needs to change – from that of organizations to networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. I learned a lot about the network approaches and was particularly interested learning a bit more about social network analysis and mapping processes.

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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. 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. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Do you need sentiment analysis? How long do you need to archive the data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

You can watch a facilitator give the group engaging ways to interact with one another and co-create content, but it’s often hard to see in the moment how those reflect intentional design choices, and understand how to use their approach in designing your own convenings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

I was reflecting on that and how Twitter can really facilitate network weaving. Another master at social network analysis and network weaving, gave me some network weaving coaching from Twitter as well - saying that it was important to let everyone know the value of closing the triangle. So, decided to write this post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. This is the last post in a series of post about my experience at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. Analyze your Results - Complete a qualitative analysis across and within levels of your stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. Who is regularly retweeting me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it. The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert. Meaning Making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The term means learning culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. The messages or story is created and shared: Metrics are related to the process of producing or sharing the desired message or story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

Practice institutional self-reflection. There are three key components of institutional self-reflection: where have we been, where are we now, and where do we want to be? I believe that at any given point you should maintain a running analysis of fundraising metrics for a minimum of three, but ideally five consecutive years.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. That’s because your site is a direct reflection of your brand. Payment facilitators. Most nonprofits have a set process for data collection and analysis, but where they fall short is data hygiene. Social media extensions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value.

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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 9, 2012

The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization. Research and policy analysis. As the report points out, movement organizers are grappling with big questions. Civic engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. We will be sharing what we learn when the project concludes this spring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it. Then asked us to do analysis based on: Age. He asked to reflect on our network map. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. He asked us to list them. Organization. Hierarchical Position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. I'm also remembering some previous obsession about cross-blog conversations and how to facilitate.

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