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 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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Webinars from running industry experts . Savory’s mission to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands is fueled by the generous support of its donors, and recurring giving has become a crucial source of revenue in their goal to influence the management of 1 billion hectares by 2025. Training plans .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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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 also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness.

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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 For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I’ll be doing a Guidestar Webinar on health and productive meetings on Feb. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Earlier this week, I was honored to do a webinar for Soapbox Engage about self-care and bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings?

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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

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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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. Join us for the webinar: Essentials of Nonprofit Content Marketing, July 16, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Walking is work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. Join us for the webinar: Essentials of Nonprofit Content Marketing, July 16, 2014.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And if this is your first Bloomerang webinar, just want to say a special welcome to all you first-timers. We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year. But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinar series, we are also a provider of donor management software. It’s how my brain works.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

But most importantly, please do use that chat box on your webinar screen, on the Zoom screen. And if this is your first Bloomerang webinar, welcome. We do these webinars every single Thursday. And we love doing these webinars. It wouldn’t be the webinar series without Kishshana joining us. Kishshana: No.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And, if this is your first Bloomerang webinar, welcome. We do these webinars every Thursday, we’ve been doing them for almost 10 years. But if you never heard of Bloomerang besides the webinars, we are also a provider of donor database software. And then we got a great webinar coming up next week. You doing okay?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And if this is your first Bloomerang webinar, I just want to say an extra special welcome to all you folks. We do these webinars just about every single Thursday throughout the year. 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.

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