Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” The first session focused on self-awareness skills. You can find the resources here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Hyper self-awareness occurs when we are forced to view our own faces while we are interacting with others. In face-to-face meetings, you can feel the energy in the room drop when people get tired by watching their body language or engagement falls off. Fatigue sets in when we are sitting and listening, not interacting or moving.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). Kanopi refers to this process as the donor journey — the steps donors take to go from initial awareness to research to donating. To facilitate this journey, ensure your site is optimized for telling your organization’s story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On the other hand, individual contributors benefit from Part 2 because it enables them to become more aware of language, systems and habits, and the dynamics of influence, which equips them to expand their ability to contribute to a culture of learning, performance, and impact.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Once there is enough awareness of the program, launch a planned giving committee to review planned giving processes and fundraising policies. Realistic Revenue Goals: A well-run planned giving program can facilitate long-term growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . A virtual conference or trade show presents just as many great networking opportunities as a live event, you just need to make people aware of what is available to them!

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

But it is particularly valuable when people don’t have access to behavioral cues, like body language, that are plentiful in face-to-face situations. Self-awareness— is the ability to assess your own skills and to understand your personal emotional landscape. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

A good way to facilitate an in-kind donation campaign virtually is to take advantage of your online tools and make an eCommerce page with a list of needed products. Switch Up Your Fundraising Language. Your donors have probably seen the same type of language from nonprofit organizations and businesses alike regarding COVID-19.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

In-person, this can be easier as you can sense a change of energy in the room and read body language. One way to do this is by having an impartial moderator or facilitator. Whether you are hosting a small virtual meeting or a massive online corporate event, you will want to actively encourage participation and collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

If someone asked you whether museums should or need to have text in more than one language, what would you say? Maybe you are in a country that mandates multiple languages, or at an institution already committed to bi- or multi-lingual interpretation.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . A virtual conference or trade show presents just as many great networking opportunities as a live event, you just need to make people aware of what is available to them!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Mel hopes to help our community and create awareness. His areas of expertise include policy analysis and development, group facilitation, benefits enrollment, and workforce development. She received both a Bachelor’s in Spanish Language & Literature and a Master of Public Administration degree from Binghamton University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. There is lots of advice out there about how to design and facilitate meetings.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

By promoting your brand, company, or event to a larger audience, you will be investing in brand awareness, brand expansion, and increased revenue. On-Demand Video: Beyond language considerations, a global audience can mean multiple time zones. 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

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. It was eye-opening to discover what you don’t notice when you are aware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Also, it requires adding the words “social media&# to any professional conduct language or a social media policy. Something that worked for me in raising awareness is to send a weekly email digest of responses from across all our social networks, to show the level of interest and engagement out there. Decks and Links here.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

In-person, this can be easier as you can sense a change of energy in the room and read body language. One way to do this is by having an impartial moderator or facilitator. Whether you are hosting a small virtual meeting or a massive online corporate event, you will want to actively encourage participation and collaboration.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

By promoting your brand, company, or event to a larger audience, you will be investing in brand awareness, brand expansion, and increased revenue. On-Demand Video: Beyond language considerations, a global audience can mean multiple time zones. 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

MARCH 19, 2012

KONY2012 has prompted countless reporters, bloggers, and talking heads to comment on the changing ways in which we are becoming aware of social problems and the organizations that are tackling them. Fulton’s talk was timely. It is an exciting time. The Internet is getting physical and charitable.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In a socially distanced world, virtual tours of non-profits, lunch and learns with community leaders, book clubs, or movies with facilitated discussion can strengthen that foundation. TD Bank has an internal learning hub that aims to help employees learn more about community issues and the non-profits who work on them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection. Expressing their emotions so openly was a new and uneasy task, but with the help of a wonderful facilitator, Conso Buzabo , they intuitively shared their compassionate connections through simple art making.

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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. 1) Everybody is People.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

We know from past research that awareness of being a subject can bias the results of our research. Social listening take place in real-time and facilitates developing rapid response messages. They know their actions are being monitored. In many cases, obtrusive research designs influence the behavior we seek to understand.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2019

Use this language to appeal directly to current students, alumni, and other prospects. Donors want to know things like the number of students a year helped by a scholarship fund and the types of outcomes the scholarship facilitates, so give them hard data about how their gifts are changing lives.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Encourage awareness of working styles Getting to know colleagues in a remote environment is tough. To encourage awareness of working styles, consider using a personality assessment tool, like DiSC, Myers-Briggs, or Clifton Strengths. A big pro of using the same tool is having shared language.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

From providing accessible content for people with disabilities, to creating fully usable functionality, to support for multiple languages, we wanted to learn about the benefits people are creating using web and mobile technology. Using tools like the WAVE toolbar can help raise awareness about where the barriers are." Next Steps?

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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. Use clear language and large, easy to read fonts.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

In January, as part of a series of place-making workshops facilitated by the Project for Public Spaces , we worked with a local dad to coordinate a workshop explicitly for kids (full writeup here ). An example is a literally secret garden/ landscape that adults are not aware of.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

It begins with (1) becoming aware of and honoring another’s perspective, then (2) sitting with and thinking about that person’s feelings, and ultimately (3) taking supportive action. Trust me; it will come out in the tone of your voice or your body language. It’s also a key to cultivating loving awareness. “As

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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. Use clear language and large, easy to read fonts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2007

Marc Osten, facilitator. -ICT Hub has taken an active approach to evaluation -Please contribute to what we have been learning - pointed to the evaluation forms in the packet -Conclusions will feed into lessons learned - what works, what doesn't - if you have written anything about what works in practice - they need to know. Split up the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. They are speaking the language of people, and empathy, and systemic change. They felt stuck.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Multilingual SEO Multilingual SEO for nonprofits is a strategic approach to optimize online content for audiences speaking different languages. Multilingual SEO involves translating website content, metadata, and keywords to cater to the languages spoken by the target audience.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then another way we can help build brand awareness for the organization through our role as a board member is to allow the use of your name associated with an organization. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum?

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here are a few tools you can leverage to facilitate the process: Customer relationship management (CRM) systems: CRM platforms , such as Salesforce, make it possible to gather and manage all of your association’s data effectively. With this information, you can tailor communications and engagement opportunities to your members’ interests.

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