Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich. I had not been in the room before, although I did see photos. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice. I might audit their Facebook best practices and other social media channels. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

And surely given events of this past week, we all need to continue to practice a little self-care and nurture a culture of support while standing up for what we what we believe in. Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Walking meetings can help shakes things up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?

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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. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

Flickr Photo by udithawix. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains. All that sitting is not good for your health.

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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. Here's where the coffee cup photos enter. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks.

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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 curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. .

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Multimedia elements like photos, videos, and audio break up long text blocks and allow readers to form a deeper connection with the subjects of your stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. They have several months of training, they are now half-way - the training is both theory and practical. Needs an engine.

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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. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice. Which was more compelling, the list of facts, or the story with the photo? Write more success stories of the great work you’re doing.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll hone in on some best practices that you and your teams can apply specifically to leverage your board members in your fundraising activity in a way that excites and energizes them. Four is considering the level of depth of our DEI practices and challenging ourselves to engage in deeper, more meaningful ways.

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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. And, of course, we’re going to be quite practical. And then we’re going to dive into some practical tactics that you can apply just in the next few weeks.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts.

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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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