Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

When was the last time you went to a conference and had a deep learning experience through conversation and stimulation of all senses from a traditional panel? I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? You need to engage the whole brain in learning. How much do you retain? Rob Cottingham.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout. Why not try an experiment with your nonprofit team and turn the cameras off for meetings – and see how it impacts engagement, attention, and exhaustion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout. Why not try an experiment with your nonprofit team and turn the cameras off for meetings – and see how it impacts engagement, attention, and exhaustion.

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Camera Collaboration Attention Research 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 6. Creative Use of Energizers: Avoiding the 3:00 PM My Brain Is Full Slump: No matter how engaging your content or instructional technique is – people get tired towards the end of a whole day of training. All in all, a great learning experience for me and it was fun!

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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

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 a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” when they get tired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. After hearing a story from a peer.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Facilitate a stronger relationship by sharing compelling personal stories related to your nonprofit. Simple language free of jargon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). What is your experience in designing and delivering different trainings in different types of configurations? Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. Here’s a round up closing plenary and a brief reflection about the plenary session and some great learning moments below. Mark of a good conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

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. Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US.

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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. The first group consists of people who may have many years of experience in a nonprofit, may be in a senior management position with a nonprofit, but are new to social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Experiment with scheduling 30 minute meetings. PRIORITIES. Are there competing priorities? Take a trend-line view.

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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. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Not great as many of reflected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

But, the brain fog has started to fade. The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. This lead me to a little experiment with Blip.TV I remember being inspired by it. The bookmarks are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

at an amazing pace, and some of their experiences can serve as valuable lessons for what we may want to develop as well. I discovered this post from Alec Couros , reflecting on his recent presentation in a wiki for emerging technology. I got about 3 slides in when I realized that my brain no longer operates that way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. I’m always up for a conversation with other facilitators about shop talk and getting tips for improving my practice.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And really appreciate the opportunity to share my experiences on the frontlines working on these campaigns with all of you here today. They bring a diverse set of experiences, skills, talents, perspectives. So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

How many of us had the experience at some point during the pandemonium, as my daughter says, that folks were like, “Oh, I’m just home resting. There wasn’t anybody on my staff that had more than five years’ experience doing any one of those particular verticals. So I have a question for y’all.

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