Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. Here’s an overview the tips and resources I shared. Don’t wing it alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

When you don’t have time to make a meeting agenda beforehand , the conversation can quickly get sidetracked and devolve into casual or irrelevant conversation. Without an agenda, it’s also very easy for one or two people to dominate the meeting, which means that not everyone will get a chance to share their ideas.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. Association 4.0

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. Register to Attend the 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions. Yet this aspect of the experience is often the most daunting for many.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? This blog post shares some thoughts. What is Collaborative Overload? There are ways of working that can reduce collaborative overload.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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MARCH 10, 2023

orgCommunity event featured interactive conversations led by engaging speakers , with decades of leadership experience in the association sphere. We spent our time in round table discussion with association leadership professionals , learning and sharing our own experiences.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. More public sharing : The point of breaking people up into groups is that there can be many more engaged groups instead of one large group with minimal participation.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. Always developing a meeting agenda, sharing it with attendees beforehand, and explicitly asking them to review it and note any questions or comments. Kicking off the conversation. The nature of capital campaign committee structures.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

While the value of community services data may have been defined in the past by the strength of the walls around it, today however, tremendous value comes from the ability to be use appropriate data collaboratively among partners. Visionlink has authored and supported standards for nearly two decades. Working with ANSI, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. We are not used to conversations with another person while we are staring in a mirror. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations. Keep conversations about a project to the main channels of your workplace communication system (Slack/Teams/etc.) and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Include as much of the team as possible at any given time.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

This post was originally published on The Ross Collective ; it is being shared here with the author’s permission. I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

As we grow older, storytelling is the means by which we engage with our friends and family to create shared understanding, and eventually with our employers and workmates to establish alignment around a mission. WhatsApp offers an appealing and efficient method of sharing documents and other materials among members of a team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We utilize datamaking as part of shared meaning making. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making. However, when we initiate a more practical conversation, we can determine which questions will be most useful. Building knowledge is a social process where we make meaning together.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Shape the Conversation . Once you have a good handle on the subject matter, consider how you might want to shape a conversation on the topic with your key stakeholders.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

kicked off with a special edition of Nonprofits Live on the topic of collaborative storytelling. Collaborative storytelling refers to working with a team, sometimes distributed, to produce video. Starting a Collaborative Project. If you need to look outside of your organization for collaborators, look to your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

The need for collaboration amongst a diverse array of community members has become a recognized focus within the nonprofit sector. This question does not come with a simple solution, and there are daily decisions made to work toward making contacts with community leaders, elders, agencies, and members who can collaborate and share resources.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community. Founded in 2015 by Salesforce.org in collaboration with Davos Middle School, Davos Codes believes the voices of the youth need to be front and center in the fight for climate justice.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Suicide is a leading cause of death for individuals around the world, and September is an important time to have conversations to break down the stigma around mental illness and treatment for mental health. Raise awareness Using social media to share about NSPAM is a great way to observe the month and spread awareness of suicide prevention.

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Forum One

JUNE 24, 2010

Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. Amy talked about a private global online community of librarians that she facilitates as part of the Gates Foundation's Global Libraries program. Philanthropy and Online Collaboration Webinar. Lots more good stuff there.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

We recently wrapped up our 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions event here at Classy. As part of our debrief of the event, we wanted to share some insights from the Classy staff who organized it. The Collaborative’s logistics were owned by Alexa. Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . How to Measure Success.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. The process was a collaboration in itself, with TSNE MissionWorks , and Essential Partners serving as co-hosts. This is not actually a photo from the dialogue series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. My audience included many people who were blind. … Read More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Here’s the list: Function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising).

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

More specifically, the flagship land grant and top research university sought out this Salesforce CRM expansion to enable greater collaboration and insight into UVM researcher engagements with internal stakeholders and external partners. It’s also keyed into one of UVM’s rallying taglines: “ amplify our impact.”

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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. Key benefits. A reprieve from video fatigue.

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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. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Your values should be made evident through: Staff relationships: Shared beliefs can cultivate strong relationships with coworkers who are also believers. Or, you can openly talk about your faith in conversations with people outside your organization. Transparency about your beliefs can also be used as a tool to minister to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I've gotten into the habit of asking if there will be confidential information shared and what is or isn't bloggable. Eugene said at the beginning that he would not be sharing any confidential information and that everything is open. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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