Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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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. How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery guest post by Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. However, I don’t always have that opportunity because many times nonprofit workshops are hosted at conferences at hotels. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. What was your experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

I’m thrilled to be doing a session with Aisha Moore and Gina Schmeling at the NTEN NTC called “ Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? ” If you are attending the NTC, please join us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

A single, successful social media post can drive major traffic to your exercise-for-a-cause. The Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Event Software for Nonprofits Find out how Blackbaud’s TeamRaiser® fits your organization. Request a Demo The post 33 Perfect Exercise Captions for Instagram first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. a nonprofit project), Golden-i , SixthSense. that sends exercise and sleep info the cloud. He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The last year has seen a lot of nonprofits dipping their toes into online fundraising for the first time. The name comes from the “dura” matter in the brain, which is where spinal leaks happen. CauseVox is a digital fundraising platform for nonprofits that helps you raise more with less effort through our fundraising software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

He lead us on a series of improvisation exercises designed to teach important skills for networked leaders: empathy, awareness, celebrating failure, being open to change and more. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. David’s improv exercises were designed to help us stretch this muscle and apply to our social change work.

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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. Many of us work for nonprofits because we are passionate about social change missions. We had some awesome submissions from nonprofit bloggers about being healthier and happier in 2016. Stress Reduction.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The very first step in installing and implementing QuickBooks for your nonprofit organization has nothing to do with software or computers and everything to do with communication and understanding - and the good news is "communication and understanding" are normally among a nonprofit's strengths. Development Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. These skills are: self-management and attention training. Some workplace cultures in nonprofits encourage this approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For example, I asked the runners to line up from “just bought my nikes&# to “training for my third 30 mile marathon.&#. User-generated content for training can be powerful and also make participants more open to subject matter. It is a well known fact that exercise helps you think better. (And

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. It’s the one profile where I can be myself… not a Nonprofit Tech 2.0 I do use the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page for work. Enjoy your lunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Small group or partnering learning activity: Reflection on reading materials, debriefing on exercises or practice activities, identifying issues and concerns, brainstorming ideas and solutions to bring to the whole group, action research. Medium: Up to 50 people. The connection between participants is less intimate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. At the end of the conference, I interviewed Rosetta along with Ashely Cecil , Erin McMahon , and Diana Church -- all young nonprofit professionals. Let me explain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I have been in the nonprofit space for about 15 years now and … There we go. Maybe it’s because you’re thinking about fundraising or nonprofit management. This webinar is about my podcast actually. So it’s about a study. . I’m a social scientist by passion, but a fundraising consultant and executive by trade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. In an earlier post and presentation, I riffed on Armano's article and translated for a nonprofit context. Look at what other nonprofits are doing in the space.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. What are tips, exercises, or advice you give them to deal with that fear? You've created two very interesting products, The Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit and The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book. How does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Rachel Calderon, Marketing and Communications Manager, Central Florida Foundation was a workshop participant and after the workshop we brainstormed a design for training her board members to be champions. She agreed to write up her process and experience – and especially grateful as I’m in London now teaching the same topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. What type of work do you do in the nonprofit sector? How did you become interested in nonprofit technology?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased. I don’t know why.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It’s awesome that we got a full room because you always bring great trainings, you did a great session for us last year on budgeting. That helps nonprofits kind of simplify all of their operations and kind of bring their teams together. . Steven: Yeah, we got some good peeps here. I mean, what else can we say there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Andy also has written a lot of great books, especially one on training your board. Harvey: As most nonprofits have these days is that renewal rates have been declining and that’s been consistent. we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . But essentially.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And I’m grateful beyond words for all the things that you’ve done for the nonprofit world and for Bloomerang, you know, great software, great customer service. And he’s been in your shoes he’s actually founded eight nonprofits. Let’s look at the nonprofit environment and why that’s so important.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

I’ve been working in nonprofit space for many, many years, a lot of years. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Welcome, everyone.

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