Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

That’s when you can add a brief stretch break, energizer , or incorporate an exercise that requires getting up and moving around. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. We decided to use an understanding exercise, a SWOT analysis related to the topics. Learning More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. In some exercises, such as the closing circle, the notes might be taken by hand so they ideas are captured. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The value of this exercise was that it inspired me to rethink my routine about bedtime rituals. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart. While these subjective measures, I discovered that my magic number of sleep hours about 7 hours and 45 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

The above is an example of how to do this with pen and paper, another way is to use apps called Mood Trackers , journals that let you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques. As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

We all know we need to eat right, exercise, and get enough rest. I find that exercise not only helps my physical strength, but my mental strength, too. So why don’t we do it? Why do we have an epidemic of stressed out and exhausted people? I think because we take it for granted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics. Here are few nonprofit toolkits that can help you adapt this exercise to your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, if I have to do some writing – that requires a higher level of attention for me than does scanning Twitter or reading and responding to email. I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. (I’ve charted those – so I know when they occur).

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Content Tips Help Exercise 139

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2019

Authored by Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton , it’s a high-readable book, packed with stories and takeaway exercises. Even though I’m at the top of the organizational chart, have I taken advantage of training and development opportunities that would allow me to increase my level of passion? Do I believe my work is meaningful?

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Attitude Chart Leadership Exercise 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The mini-session included some practical tips and a reflective exercise based on the emerging nonprofit leaders peer learning project I facilitated last year. We ended the afternoon with a coaching exercise that helps motivate and empower people by focusing on their strengths. .” You can find the resources here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around. I’ve also done this during a session as part of a small group exercise. Movement is better than sitting. It might include standing or walking.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But more than that, this exercise helps identify where you should concentrate efforts, where to distribute messages, and where you have the best chance of successfully engaging the community to support your work. Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. Community Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief. Walk and Talk: I do this a lot in half-day or full-day trainings. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Content Learning Brain PPT 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2015

Keep the Weekly Energy Chart in Mind: According to Tony Schwartz, in “ The Way We Are Working Is Not Working ,” certain types of meetings and work require more energy than others. The chart below reflects the common pattern for organizations and individuals in terms of their energy over the course of a typical week.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

I've charted those – so I know when they occur). I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. The mind map offers a lot of good suggestions for rituals – from decluttering your workspace to healthy habits like sleep and exercise. Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable.

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Content Exercise Technique Journal 62

Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Not only does reading exercise the brain and improve concentration, but it also helps children develop more advanced language skills and engage their imagination. While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

We’ve designed a short exercise to help you decide. If you have two or three key constituents, you can repeat the exercise for each, but choose one to start with.) Once you’ve defined how complex and related each constituent is, plot your constituent groups on a chart for a look at your overall constituent picture.

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Database Track Org Exercise 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2008

Explain exercise goals and that we'll be posting some of our burning questions throughout the day to Twitter and checking in for answers as the workshop unfolds. Give instructions to participants to do the exercise. Have participants work on exercise, keep eye on time. Flip chart burning questions. Flip Chart/Markers 3.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Especially when it’s combined with deep financial insights from accounting platforms like Quickbooks, a nonprofit’s budgeting process can become an exercise in creativity and experimentation that is centered on what you value most. Through a transformational shift in the people you are engaging with.

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Analysis Project Donor Retention 52

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

What does the nonprofit's chart of accounts currently look like? Does the chart use account names that are understandable to all readers? How does it sync up with the Chart of Accounts? This exercise will promote team building and allow stake holders to walk a mile in another's shoes. Is it sufficient?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. At the end of the mapping exercise, you can write an overall goal, like connecting offline, or fundraising, or maybe advocating on important issues, and the main platforms where it takes place.

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

So we did two exercises—with board and staff, separately—to develop our priorities. I suspect these exercises might be useful in any complicated project. You can see them in this chart. But they were not the ones people talked about the most in the months leading up to this exercise. Any contract would have done that.

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Technique Museum Exercise Structure 29

Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2014

The chart below shows the average online gift for the four event types featured in the Study. When first looking at this chart, you’re probably thinking I need to start messaging $62 dollars to get my Walk donors to give more. Do me a favor and try this exercise. Here’s a preview. This tells me donors are willing to give more.

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Gift Giving Online Chart 44

Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. This exercise not only tests your campaign plans but is also a valuable opportunity to engage important external stakeholders early. Always conduct a feasibility study.

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Campaign Phase Gift Studies 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Getting exercise, taking breaks, drinking water, and making time for solitude. I’ve charted myself according to times when I reach peak levels of concentration and try as much as can to schedule tasks require it. There is the mind-body connection which boils down to taking care of yourself.

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Social Media Professional Time Management 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

We filled 8 flip chart pages with close to hundred ideas. Next we did a series of small group exercises for participants to identify their stress triggers and reactions to stress. The next step was to whittle it down to 20 topics by voting using an applause meter. An applause meter is just what you think it is.

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Causes Change Museum Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. These use tools like crayons and paper and process exercises. . The first was to look at the different social network analysis maps posted on the walls and figure out what was going on. Low-Tech Approaches.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game. I also created some fun group exercises for folks to learn the concepts. Who is target group you need to reach with your overall communications objective?

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Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

The original worksheet was developed from recommendations from the Spin Project and the " Smart Chart " developed by Spitfire Strategies.) Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. We created a worksheet with more detailed questions adapted and remixed from CCTV's wiki.

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Social Media Develop Media Remix 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. (tags: nonprofits roi ). Unique Blog Readers.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Once you select the Channels tab it will bring up a chart showing your organic traffic: Selecting the Landing Page dimension will filter data to show individual page performance. The best way to measure that growth is with Google Analytics. Within your analytics dashboard head over to Acquisition -> All Traffic -> Channels.

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. The image below is a screenshot from a disaster preparedness exercise in Portland, Oregon. monitor election results in Mexico and India. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use.

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Beginner Nonprofit Goal Process 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions. We were luck to have Donna Norton from Momsrising share a presentation about their approach to integrated social media campaigns and success stories using a planning technique called “Layer Cake Strategy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I also created a stand up, sit down exercise. The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector. We made sure that these folks were not all seated at the same table - having them spread their experience through the room so there was a C and T at each table. The wikitation for this workshop is here.

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