Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. Empathy is contagious and influences and shapes a work culture of caring. As leaders, we have a responsibility to model this behavior, demonstrating an authentic interest in our people as humans.

Leadership 118

Leadership Organization Culture Skills 118

.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

Your audit might explore any, or all of, these seven areas: Technology systems Policies and procedures Security Productivity Communication Culture Professional development How you present this initiative to your employees is critical. Questions can cover the seven areas listed in the goals section above.

Team 221

Team Evaluation Attitude Interview 221

.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Once you know who is needed, you must explain exactly what the organization expects from their service both in terms of activities and culture. Mentors can contact new directors before the meeting to review the agenda, discuss norms for behavior, and answer questions that might be awkward in a more public setting. Set Expectations.

Mentoring 221

Mentoring Director Associations Professional 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

Learning 94

Learning Free Reflection Model 94

.orgSource

MARCH 20, 2023

You probably know the answer to this question. Unfortunately, despite the hefty price tag, the mechanics are meaningless without the philosophy, strategy, and culture that maximizes those tools. The expectation for immediate responses to complex online questions and queries is only going to increase. Is there more to accomplish?

Digital 221

Digital Gartner Leadership Adopt 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

Leadership 92

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 92

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you’re considering a new or inaugural workspace, consider these questions before making any decisions. Despite trends in digital collaboration, a strategic geographic location continues to be essential for organizational success. Optimal office function requires a variety of costs that depend upon your occupancy model.

Question 57

Question NGO Government Model 57

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In July 2019, The Opportunity of Collaborative Benchmarking whitepaper was released in partnership between Blackbaud, NetHope, and NTEN. It focused on answering the question, “How do we as a sector improve by collaboratively sharing our data?”. Insights into the Collaborative Benchmarking Survey Results.

Benchmark 38

Benchmark Survey Collaboration Social 38

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Not only do those mental models not apply, but they also become a liability in a changed world. McGowan Chris Shipley Today, the authors share these additional insights with us: Question: The pandemic brought dramatic changes to the workplace; what, exactly, has changed? Those models, now, are a liability rather than a guide.

Culture 52

Culture Leadership Generation Model 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It begins with learning, habituation, and cultural shifts to fully harness AI benefits responsibly. He described how volunteers, previously spending hours on research for culturally resonant welcome baskets, turned to Copilot for quicker insights. The path may seem daunting, but the key is to start with your people.

Adopt 79

Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kellogg Foundation This resource helps answer a key question on many leaders’ minds: How can leaders and companies create a culture that embodies a feeling of inclusion and a sense of belonging for all employees? Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

Issue 98

Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” or, “What are the actual actions we can take to realize our vision of a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion?” One important thing to address is how to question without making others defensive.

Activities 97

Activities Active Activism Organization 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Wiki users are often collaborators.

Model 98

Model Activities Active Activism 98

.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Organizations that treat culture like an impromptu party will see their “guests” leave early. Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. But we realize that building culture isn’t a project with a finish line.

Culture 221

Culture Skills Collaboration Associations 221

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

Culture 47

Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

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.

Community 52

Community Build Minnesota Collaboration 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building.

Open 107

Open Work Global Collaboration 107

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

Answering that question is what three authors set out to explore in the new book, Arrive And Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership , written by Susan MacKenty Brady , Janet Foutty and Lynn Perry Wooten. Create a healthy team environment that personifies your organization’s values and is supportive and collaborative.

Leadership 52

Leadership Practice Authoring Adopt 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Legends of the Stall was started by a visitor services staff member, Katie Chrivia, who collaborated with interns and volunteers to develop the content and the design. I’m starting to really appreciate the difference between being an individual agent and creating a culture of agency. What does a culture of experimentation look like?

Culture 53

Culture Build Museum Articulate 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. 1) Everybody is People.

Collaboration 93

Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits?

Culture 105

Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

My question to them was: What is your advice for leaders as we enter what is surely to be a challenging 2021 for most businesses? When leaders admit to their own challenges instead of portraying a strong and stoic model of unshakability (on the outside), teams grow together, not apart. It's the same with stress.

Advice 97

Advice Law Authoring Beginner 97

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. What questions do you have? Presentation.

Impact 123

Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. The ability to collaborate is one of this sector’s greatest strengths. Create an atmosphere of collaboration. Did I really have the best approach?

Nonprofit 88

Nonprofit Advice Skills Studies 88

Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Operations & Leadership Programs Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How 10 min read Read Now 3. Strategic storytelling, media engagement, social media campaigns, and community collaborations are some of the different ways that your association might want to share its mission and values with the wider world.

Associations 52

Associations Practice Strategy Leadership 52

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This past November, I had the pleasure of being in the audience when my colleague, Catherine LaCour, gave a talk on the Social Economy and posed the question—“ How will we build a better world? ” She described a road map for the future, with one of its superhighways being a focus on “radical collaboration.”.

Collaboration 20

Collaboration Help Social Tips 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

The same constructs which were discussed around combating issue fatigue can be used in creating a cultural movement around an issue. There are a few foundational questions to be asked before building a cultural movement through the use of media and storytelling. that effective cultural movements move.

Culture 84

Culture Build Change Media 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. In 2012, leaders at the Rockefeller Foundation posed that question to our team at Monitor Institute, kicking off a year and a half of research and analysis.

Arts 95

Arts Design Collaboration Analysis 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. Learning Organizational Culture' He asked us to list them.

Learning 98

Learning Work Knowledge Management Knowledge 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

Review 106

Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

During the diplomatic conference, Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries could hope to achieve with the Treaty. As a result, the Treaty closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States. And when you sign the treaty, you haven’t succeeded.

Accessibility 194

Accessibility Celebrate United States Copyright 194

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

I am heartened by how many new faces are here at each conference and by how the culture endures. 3) If we want to collaborate; if we see the advantages of shared knowledge and collective action, then technology can help us make it real. The Capacity-Building Frontier(s) – guest post by Barbara Kibbe.

Build 94

Build Seattle Literacy Model 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. So, the next step in the process was to have the group generate a series of questions to serve as a springboard for brainstorming ideas for program prototypes.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. But the real question is, HOW do you become a community manager and/or how do you find the right person for the job? What do you think? OK, you've heard this before. What is the skill set you should be looking for?" Check it out!

Web 120

Web Bookmarking Delicious Netsquared 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

And in this networked world where social change and social movements can be seeded overnight with a viral video on YouTube, such public collaboration on complex social issues can have multiple benefits. And it turns out, those are pretty important questions. Collective and collaborative problem-solving can get us farther faster.

Public 94

Public Learning Sound Environment 94

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I'd ask questions on Twitter before. Museums are "no" cultures, often for good reason. But that no culture also often translates into a no culture in the workplace. nathan lachenmyer (@morphogencc) November 11, 2019 Managers need to model working smart. So many wonderful ideas, and I shared a few below.

Museum 67

Museum Work Chad Culture 67