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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you can’t avoid long stretches of meetings, give yourself an “audio only” break. You can co-create meeting norms with your team or organization by facilitating a discussion about the types of communication or collaboration behaviors that make for an effective meeting or collaboration.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. As one might guess, Clubhouse was one that floated to the top.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California. Format: Our session was 90 minutes. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations. Discover why communication tools are important to include for effective project management Google Products Shared Google Sheets and Docs work well to facilitate asynchronous work and communication at a low cost. Include as much of the team as possible at any given time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Last year, I did a workshop at a conference for professionals who do audio description, a service that makes visual images of theatre, television, movies, and other art forms accessible to people are who blind or have low vision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. Set an agenda that uses your meeting time for discussion, not reporting. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. Good audio is essential. Try these simple solutions.

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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 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. Since the meeting was taking place in Los Angeles, FFOG was graciously allowed me to present remotely with Liz Karlin. In the past, I have presented remotely using skype audio and video.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Scheduled video, audio, or VR sessions. These booths not only include branding and messaging, but live text, video, and audio chat, product demos, and downloadable materials like product guides and specs. It is important to take steps to facilitate networking and elevate the attendee experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. with audio archive of session can be found here. We could also IM our questions from the adults were listening and observing. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The two discussion questions were: What are your expectations for the project as a social media trainer? Here’s how it was used during Day 4.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Scheduled video, audio, or VR sessions. These booths not only include branding and messaging, but live text, video, and audio chat, product demos, and downloadable materials like product guides and specs. It is important to take steps to facilitate networking and elevate the attendee experience.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Andrea gave an awesome presentation with some great frameworks and tips on planning and facilitating productive meetings to avoid death by meeting. She started off with some statistics that the average professional attends 13.7 I picked through the discussion for some of the gems to share.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

However, based on my conversations and experiences with many museum professionals, my guess is that many of you are aware of the issue, may think it’s worth discussing, but have limited knowledge about the core issues surrounding bilingual interpretation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

I'm connecting it to the questions that came up on yesterday's Community Squared telephone conference to discuss tagging communities and got onto the topic of how online communities are changing given Web2.0. " So, here's a tool that may (or may not) facilitate those conversations around "stuff" or tagged items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I met a lot of fantastic videobloggers as well as learned a lot through the discussion on production values facilitated by David Tames. Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Facilitate Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

During the Full Circle training on online facilitation that I took this last month, we had a sandbox. It allowed us to play and get comfortable with the discussion software, faciliplay exercises, and other areas that participants wanted to explore like the audio as online conversation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Link to other blogs' posts within your posts, even if they have a different opinion to yours, it could start a great discussion. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Interviews (written, audio, video). Ask readers to share opinions, resources, and content (blog posts, photos, audio, video).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. Here are some of the key points shared during the discussion, plus a couple of our own thoughts. When possible, integrate video, audio, and images to create multimedia stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. online facilitator? Online Community Builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. Can you add audio with slideshare? ( I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants). once and it was disaster, best to use to supplement discussion in between phone calls).

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Facilitate Engagement.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Or, consider creating a video that features your nonprofit’s staff and volunteers discussing your nonprofit’s mission and how you’re working to achieve your goals. . Captions for audio-based content. If your nonprofit has videos or other multimedia content with audio, include captions synced with the audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. If I was in a room, live, I would have facilitated a brief conversation about the themes and interjected the themes into conversation - and then summarized them succintly with the slides. Full of copyright issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Discussed the differences in perspective between generations. It is important to use video, photos, and audio. There 10-15 bloggers - a wide range of ages.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Effective meeting tools will allow them to keep discussions focused so your team can hold collaborative discussions and arrive at decisions much quicker. As your first line of defense, you should implement a secure platform, which we’ll discuss in-depth later on. Reduced engagement. Send out dynamic agendas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. Here's a few tidbits I picked up from reading and participating in the discussion. It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. s experiment and examples in Brian Russell from Audio Activism's recent presentation. Facilitating people who receive organization???s A blog to discuss a report/book.

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