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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way. The Accelerated Learning Handbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. You’ll hear a lot of F words flailing in this highly interactive plenary session – fearless, frameworks, fundamentals, forgiveness, forward-looking, and most importantly FUN! April 13, 2013 10:30-Noon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Share Tweet. Events December 6 (Berkeley): Seeds of Resilience: Women Farmers Striving in the Face of Climate Change hosted by Women's Earth Alliance. December 8 (San Francisco): The Power of Women Leading from the Heart with Nina Simons * What posts, articles and events inspired you this week? Photo by me.

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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. Support a fun icebreake r. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made.

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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

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

As with every webinar or workshop I do, I ask participants to share one small action step they can take to create a culture of wellbeing in their nonprofit office. Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Walking meetings can help shakes things up. Planning and Preparation.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. I love it.

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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. We did this on Day 1.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Like Spring Break , it’s young, libidinous and fun. They want their brains to matter. The TechSoup Global Network , NetSquared, GuideStar International, and NGOsource projects facilitate philanthropic support, data transparency and shared innovation around the world. And like Bar Camps , people hack.

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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. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For example, Ana-Marie Jones from Card Can Help shared how her small agency has implemented an effective social media strategy. I was able to capture some of her story with a FLIP camera. All in all, a great learning experience for me and it was fun! That’s why you need energizers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. This concept was acted out by artists that brought the game to life in a very funny way and it prompted some fun (non-scarcity mindset) thinking. Scarcity captures the mind. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. But first, let me share the description and what I’m planning: This interactive session is based on a key theme in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. How much do we share? Trust me.

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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 conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face! The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual. I want to aggregate all the data, synthesize it and share it.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And my colleague is going to share our presentation and we will jump right in. As I shared, I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS and an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. And when people ask why I do the work that I do, I like to share my own mission. So a little bit more about me very quickly. A lot of Cs, okay.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

This is because our brains process them almost instantly. By using multiple platforms to share your auction marketing materials, you can maximize your reach and engage with a broader audience. Tailor your emails to include captivating narratives that share the stories behind the auction items or the impact of the funds raised.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

[Event-ebook-top] There are plenty of ways to raise money, but one of the most popular (and let’s face it: fun!) If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. In addition to raising money, you might also use a fundraising event to facilitate other goals, such as: Acquiring new donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. People generally know what it is that they SHOULD be doing, but what they ACTUALLY do is often related to things beyond the rational side of their brain. Why did you start blogging?

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Share the gifts they’ve made. You can include social media share buttons on your online donation form. This allows donors to immediately share that they’ve supported your mission with friends and family members. Include social sharing buttons on the campaign page to enable supporters to share the campaign.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. These are fun and gradual ways to improve writing skills. Create standards and guidelines for quality writing and then set up structures to facilitate quality writing among staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” Recently, I had the opportunity to share with Central Florida Foundation’s board of directors about where the Foundation is headed when it comes to marketing and communications.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. I’m going to stop sharing. What could you do and I want you to write in the chat and it’d be great if Steve you could help me kind of facilitate some of this.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

So, if you have to leave early or maybe you want to share the content with a friend or a coworker or a boss or whatever, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff to you later on today. I’m going to stop sharing my screen. And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was thrilled to co-facilitate an interactive session called “ Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Using Tech for Healthier Work and Life ” with Aliza Sherman (who is my co-author for the Happy,Healthy Nonprofit Book ), and Gina Schmeling, Director of Individual Giving, Hazon.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So she’s knee deep in and planning, and we’re going to share some more information about that because it’s not too late to check it out even though it’s only a few weeks away. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. Secrets aren’t fun. Okay, y’all.

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