Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Using rituals as part of our professional work is one strategy that can help. Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Rituals are routine and intentional activities that carry meaning.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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. Design for Participants To Apply. So, you have to design for that.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be 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. (In The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With Horwath’s guidance, leaders will master the four dimensions of strategic fitness that contribute to executive performance: Strategy Fitness : Ability to understand and develop strategy, set direction, allocate resources, make decisions, and create competitive advantage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be 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. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

Diana Hoyt | Formula for Fundraising My greatest joy is teaching fundraising and helping nonprofits raise even more money using donor analytics and donor-centric strategies. Much of my work falls under the umbrella of development strategy and execution. I am honest, ethical, and no-nonsense. Katherine Ngaruiya, Ph.D. Madeleine St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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MAY 3, 2021

Finding special ways to thank donors for their recurring donations is crucial to a strong stewardship strategy, but identifying perks or incentives that truly excite your donors can be challenging. Training plans . Download the Ultimate Guide to Recurring Giving. Haymakers for Hope: Haymakers Harriers. Early access to charity races.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. What are challenges that nonprofits face when trying to create an innovation mindset in their organization to support social strategy and how to overcome them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. Will Coley , comes to the topic understanding how activists and activist organizations are using the techniques as part of their content and engagement strategies.

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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

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community – and special surprise guests who will join us via video. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

He further explains that improvisation takes technique, training, practice, thoughtfulness and intelligence. Improvisation at its most effective is a deliberate strategy that draws on intelligence in concert with instinct. And, in business, improvisation thrives at the pivotal intersection where planning and strategy meet execution."

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JANUARY 30, 2022

And the truth is, any sized business can run a successful event as part of its overall marketing strategy. Gamification increases audience engagement by activating the rewards systems in our brains, increasing the odds that attendees will do the things you want them to do (i.e., Train your team for a positive customer experience. .

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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 The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity.

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. Opening Acts executive director then shared a list of ideas.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

With the conference in DC, it means that getting there and back is easy by train. A significant number of the NTC sessions are focused on strategy and constituent-facing technology applications. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. No checked luggage, no security lines. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. ” I spoke with the CEO one-on-one to probe further and learned that he wanted board to focus on strategy and not get involved in micro-managing.

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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. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke. That’s why you need energizers.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

With the conference in DC, it means that getting there and back is easy by train. A significant number of the NTC sessions are focused on strategy and constituent-facing technology applications. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. No checked luggage, no security lines. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Clearly define workflow for online collaboration platforms and training. These tools can improve your collaborative performance, but if you use too many different platforms or don’t have a clear work process mapped to the platform or haven’t done training for everyone – it can cause confusion and overload.

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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 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. . I said yes.

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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 idea was all about having a consultant or staff person whose job was to help staff members develop self-care strategies and actually took the time for self-care. Scarcity captures the mind.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly.

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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. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity.

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

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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. And keep reading and studying!

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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. Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. I want you to also consider, is there someone actually focused on strategy? So it is Q&A time.

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