Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track. Overnight Reflection. What I think is the magic is the use of “overnight reflection.”

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Make full use of your blog content. Donations are the most important example when it comes to securing support, but your website’s navigation and design play key roles, too. How long does it take to sign up for emails, make a donation, or navigate to your blog? Make full use of your blog content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. 1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal. Reflective writing has also been shown to improve decision-making and critical thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective. Reflection.

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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. We did a sessions on measurement, integrated content strategy, and content for blogs. Quiet Reflection: Socoot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. For example, I asked the runners to line up from “just bought my nikes&# to “training for my third 30 mile marathon.&#. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Ellie taught a great trick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. a focus on what you have mastered to "we don’t know."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. What was the experience of the online viewers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. We adapted. Want to see more? Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. They also created network maps for each country as well sharing examples using online networks using technology tools. I encouraged them to use gestures to ask me to slow down or rephrase if they didn’t understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise. My personal blog was getting more hits than our organization's web site.". "We I revised the cards for the first time in a while to reflect some of the new content. It worked well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. For example, during the lab session, we got a terrific question about bilingual Fan Pages on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. The technique is called Plus/Delta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January is a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. Jacobwith of the Fire Starters Blog offers up some terrific ways to avoid burnout that are free or low cost. Many of us work for nonprofits because we are passionate about social change missions. StandOut 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. 4.) Reflection: Reflection doesn’t have to be a huge amount of time to be effective. Have you read a helpful article or blog recently that helped get more focused?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

For example, if you work for a food bank, a clear, magnetic vision might be to end hunger in your community. Here’s a great example from Best Friends Animal Society with their BHAG of taking the entire U. For example, Habitat for Humanity might say “we make sure that everyone has a safe, decent, affordable place to live.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

I've been a fan of Vicki Davis's blog ( CoolCat Teacher Blog ) for sometime now. One of my best sources is, of course, Andy Carvin's digital divide category on his blog. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. It also will change the types of skill sets that nonprofits will need now and into the future, for example “Data Analysts.” The New Social Economy. That changes the conversation for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? This was followed by each couple talking from the heart about their experience working together or presenting some examples of their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Many in the audience were colleagues that I have met through my blog over years and have helped me with Cambodian fundraising, like Roger Carr. Her blog is a must-read and I hope someday that she writes a book. Wendy has let me shadow her work for the past five years and share her wisdom in many blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you. Is it the best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. Leadership Technique: Leaders that do walking meetings can accommodate the many requests for their time. The slides and resources from the session can be found here. Sadly, we also heard stories of standing desks not being used!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. Debra Askanase has a terrific blog post that captures the many pearls of wisdom that were shared as a result of the design. I suspect I’m not alone. The Back Channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

What I have always appreciated about GivingTuesday since the beginning is how they innovate and anticipate new trends in giving and incorporate into the campaign – either as toolkits or techniques for nonprofits to test and adopt. The Giving 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. And we wanted it to be easy to do – write a blog post! Here’s a copy of the initial email as an example: Subject: Help wish Beth Kanter a happy 53rd!

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