Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I had a fairly large group and an excellent space to work in. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Next, we did a role-play.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Learning activities might include full group discussion, spectragrams , or interactive lectures , sticky note facilitation , small group exercises or games , share pairs, or independent work (reading, working on an assessment, or poster). People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

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. Resolve conflict: Walks can help resolve conflicts for pairs and small groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? You need to engage the whole brain in learning. Straight presentation kills all learning. This mixture leads to rich learning and documentation.

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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.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

This’ll be a fun one. . This is kind of fun for you, I imagine, Lindsay, because you’re usually in my shoes listening to a guest speaker, but … – [Lindsay] I am. . That’s just a quick fun fact for you. So do you feel that you have found a community in any or all of these groups? . I love that.

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People Community Video Podcast 81

Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. To take it a step further, bring some fun into the workplace with an employee-driven break activity that happens at the same time each day.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. While she didn’t teach us improvisation exactly, she lead us through some group discussions on the question: What do we do when things go wrong?

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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. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Lessons from Nonprofit Screw Ups Nonprofits are often team-centric, mission-driven organizations—which can lead to exuberant group cheerleading in the face of mediocrity.

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Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Design Experiment Seattle Social 20

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. Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? Why did you start blogging? Some sort of research ???

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Marketing Social Second Life Darfur 50

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Another fun and effective gamification technique appeals to our competitive nature. 1) Visual Storytelling. Consider this. Progress Bars. Prize Incentives.

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Websites Fundraising Site Create 52

Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Although your campaign may help multiple people, it’s better to tell one person’s story as it’s easier for people to identify with an individual than with a group. Resolution: People need motivation to give.

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Ideas Guide Online Fundraising 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A group of individuals has more knowledge to solve a problem than a single individual. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. is a great example.

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Analysis Music San Francisco Mashup 88

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Tell us how the weather is, what your organization does, anything fun you want to tell us. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. And so I’m working on developing a telemarketing program for monthly donor conversions for a group in Australia.

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Database Donor Video Mail 70

Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

To promote a sense of community surrounding your event, encourage participants to share their times within your Facebook group or wear their branded t-shirts while completing the race. Virtual concert A livestreamed concert can bring all the fun of a summer concert to your supporters, without the heat, bugs, and dust!

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Ideas Online Fundraising Tips 79

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

There is a whole group, a support group for us. So maybe you have a form that you use to have input, a survey you use for input, you have small digital groups that you have input, a Slack channel for input. And you find out where the hierarchy is and who is in the group chat. Secrets aren’t fun. Absolutely.

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Management Work Video Slides 93

Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea.

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Product Video Donor Structure 73