Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

This obviously means cameras, lights, microphones, projection screens, and projection capabilities. . Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. . But it also means a virtual events platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. There is always lots of laughing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

A few tips include: use the phone instead, switch to asynchronous modes of working, or use a few camera tricks. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. How can you avoid Zoom Overload? What is a challenge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Social anxiety for some because we are opening up our homes, our personal spaces, in professional contexts (although this can be mitigated with the use of background images or being off camera) ( Axios ). One way to handle it is to set up “open door” times (on Slack you can customize the slack status message).

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 3, 2020

You might walk around the home with a video camera, but without proper editing and production, this will not look professional and may not be the best way to showcase your business. They do so through a virtual event platform that facilitates live video fees, live chat, polling, Q&A, and other hybrid event features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. At an all-staff meeting, we set aside time for each staffer to hold up a thank you sign to the camera. The video calls have a consistent structure to them. Back in 2017, the staff created a thank you video for the volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2022

Bonus: Accelevents facilitates participation and networking across both physical and virtual sessions. Your virtual attendees are no different, which is why it’s also essential to choose an event platform like Accelevents, on which you can create networking opportunities in “rooms” for attendees to meet and share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

We have to replace this norm of pushing family away from the camera to this norm of welcoming them. There are lots of useful resources created by nonprofits to help facilitate kindness and mutual aid. I think we need to be more gentle with ourselves given that many people are juggling home-schooling with their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

112 participants created Twitter accounts and are tweeting regularly, 1674 videos were posted on YouTube created with FLIP cameras donated by CISCO, and 131 blogs are regularly sharing their stories. One of my favorite parts was facilitation a small group discussion on managing information overload in an age of distractions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

” By establishing your goals and objectives for telling a story before pen hits paper (or fingertips hit the keyboard or video camera turns on…you get it), you outline a clear purpose for what you’re doing and ensure that it aligns with your mission, goals, and desired outcomes. Consider allowing them to tell their own story on camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The goal of these activities is to help form strong relationships to help facilitate honest and impactful decisions in the board room. . Using remote meeting technology, cameras, computers, phones, electronic board book technology and shared information platforms , board members got together and got funds out the door.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I facilitated a discussion with the group about whether and how their community foundations, located in very rural areas, might embrace social networking. I couldn’t help but think – what if each of these people had a flip camera or inexpensive digital camera and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation wall.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. As one might guess, Clubhouse was one that floated to the top.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Don’t forget: Your votes determine which organizations go home with fantastic prizes: NTEN will provide the contest winner with a free registration pass to the 2015 NTC in Austin, Texas Cisco will contribute a cash prize to the winner of the Best Nonprofit Video Award The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture in partnership with the National (..)

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 3, 2020

You might walk around the home with a video camera, but without proper editing and production, this will not look professional and may not be the best way to showcase your business. They do so through a virtual event platform that facilitates live video fees, live chat, polling, Q&A, and other hybrid event features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. Flickr Photo by Toddy. How do you think offline or online crowdfunding will affect your favorite causes in 2013?

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OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TV, Cameras, and WiFi: To facilitate a remote auction experience for everyone around the world! . Furthermore, a backdrop is a great canvas for your sponsors to have their moment. . Banners: These can provide additional space to expand upon your brand and theme.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. An emcee can also help your nonprofit facilitate smoother transitions with the technology, as that person can remind your audience about important features for engaging during the sessions.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Or, you might use mobile bidding software at an in-person auction to facilitate the smooth flow of donations. Alongside worrying about catering, you’ll also need to consider where your cameras will be situated for live streaming, for example. Multiple audiences.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. Deployment Packet.

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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. And I know a few participants are very relieved that I didn’t have my FLIP camera handy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities. Then it was time to distribute the gifts , including Flip Cameras and books. His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

.” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. Think of “House of Cards” when Francis turns to the camera and shares the dialogue inside his mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll The project was lucky enough to receive a donation from Cisco of FLIP cameras and I think the most fun I had creating curriculum was the one above on storytelling and making simple and effective content for NGOs.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

You'll now have access to see what kind of mobile device, and even click a camera icon to see how your site appears on their particular device. As Google Analytics explains, the Goal Flow visualizer will facilitate a comprehensive plan about: The relative volume of visits to your site by the dimension you choose (e.g. Pretty cool.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

These may include things like mobile phones, cameras, or even drones. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. Digital organizing: Once communities are digitally literate, they can use the tools to advocate for addressing the challenges and problems they are facing.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

In my presentation, I looked at ways organizations need to change the way they do business and generate content in order to facilitate a storytelling culture, namely: Ensure organizational backing from senior management. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2011

talked about the different community platforms available and the challenges of facilitating private online communities where staff vetting is required for entry in order to preserve members safety and ability to talk frankly about the challenges they are facing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. We are currently trying to raise $40,000 of our $200,000 budget through Kickstarter, the online fundraising platform that facilitates grassroots investment. January 21.

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