Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

We’ve come a long way since the early days of social media in terms of measurement practice. The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix.

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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. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report is written for funders and those on the ground doing the work in the context of networks, although it doesn’t go deep into practice. Metrics can help, and building them into organizational culture can be facilitated by having someone with responsibilities to make it happen – and to steep others in the new practices.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

What eLearning assessment best practices can strengthen your courses? Then, we’ll wrap up with a few best practices to take your assessments to the next level. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. What does this look like in practice? It isn’t enough to just read an article about good team collaboration, it is also necessary to practice it in the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I'm sort of foggy on all the questions - due to my tired state, but the first set of opinion statements was "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for practical reasons" and "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for philosophical reasons." What are the best practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant. We also had a wide range of attitudes about the use of social media - from healthy skepticism to excited practioner. As a result, the questions and insights shared were rich and varied. Inward Facing.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Why not apply the same attitude to our own staff? First, let's talk process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

I spent ten years as a focus group moderator so I think that experience was invaluable to learning how to facilitate wide ranging discussions, learning to listen intensely, and bringing out different points of view. What can people in this room put into practice in the next week or year to be more innovative? Innovator’s Dilemma.

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