Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session. Basic Approaches.

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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. According to Beth, a good meeting is based on good design. Planning and Design.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. Every employee must have a stake in that vision.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

ENA Culture Statements Staff The Emergency Nurses Association will seek at all times to foster and maintain a culture of excellence, commitment, empowerment, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability. When the group reimagined their office space, incorporating elements of culture into the new design was a priority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Our article, “ 8 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Adopt AI Responsibly, ” published in the Stanford Innovation Review was listed as the ten top most popular articles of 2023. Training & Facilitation: I have maintained an active schedule of leading workshops, facilitating retreats, and presenting.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

BoardSite’s features are designed specifically with nonprofits in mind. BoardSite is a comprehensive platform designed specifically for boards. It facilitates straightforward communication between board members, helps you keep documents organized, and more, similar to a traditional board books.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

The following recommendations from our research are designed to weight the scales toward exhilaration and keep disruption at bay. Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Don’t compete.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Remote work is challenging teams. You are struggling to make old procedures fit new formats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2017

This requires designing professional development designed as “micro-lessons.” Gain tips on how to facilitate sessions that will strengthen professional development across your teams and organization. They are also learning how to access professional and personal networks to get answers to their questions.

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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? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The tool aims to help nonprofits identify funding sources, understand funders’ priorities, and facilitate effective collaborations, with the goal of greater transparency to advance the health of the U.S.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Use ChatGPT to design and conduct surveys and market research. Ideally, a copywriter, a marketer, and an IT staffer would collaborate to develop the scripts.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

A well-designed awareness campaign can bring attention to your nonprofit’s cause, educate the public about a significant issue, and drive more donations to fuel your mission. Outline a successful collaboration The most successful collaboration is one that mutually benefits both parties.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Together, participants collaborate, innovate, and discover new ways to spark change with technology. This session is designed to give you a comprehensive introduction and understanding of composable architecture, its critical components, and how it can be integrated into your existing systems and tools. Not Loving GA4?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Collective Impact requires collaborating organizations to: Identify a common goal: Understand a problem and the pathway to solve it together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Design for Participants To Apply. So, you have to design for that.

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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. Register for the 2021 Collaborative to put your conference networking tips into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2020

If you’re working on a team or delegating tasks across a committee, it can be especially difficult to collaborate and avoid duplicative work. Using an event management interface that’s designed specifically for golf keeps you on track to ensure that every piece of the puzzle is accounted for—even for those new to planning golf outings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. One of the strategies that make capital campaigns successful is that they are designed to involve many volunteers over the life of the campaign through ad-hoc committees. Capital campaign committees are designed to have a beginning, middle, and end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2015

A part of my practice is around network design and facilitation and one of my most respected colleagues in this area is Eugene Eric Kim. So, for this conversation about the art and craft of network design and weaving, he started us off with a ritual he learned from another network designer, Curtis Ogden.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

Proposition 22: The normal expectation ought to be that success will be very difficult to achieve in cross-sector collaborations.” - John Bryson, et al., "The The Design and Implementation of Cross-Sector Collaborations". Collaboration is emerging as a popular vehicle to solve complicated problems that our communities face.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. This is where collaboration is especially crucial. Mapping the Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

The toolkit was designed through a collaboration between a European agency ( STBY ) and an Indian agency ( Quicksand ), it was commissioned by Nesta and the Rockefeller Foundation , who together saw a gap in the support for innovation provided to the development community. This is not the only social design toolkit.

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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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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

The top nonprofit websites have more than just solid design and engaging content. Or, if you’re designing your website from scratch, you’ll need a full understanding of what you want your new website to do. Accessible design. Choosing a web design consultant is a lot like choosing the best CMS for your website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The most successful virtual formats invite players to participate in the golf outing over an extended period of time and/or at multiple courses, using the right technology to facilitate registration, live scoring, leaderboards, and digital sponsorships. You also may need to go virtual. Get Started.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Then one of the last arriving students, typing their name into the designated row, somehow deleted the whole roll sheet. Collaborative technology is incredible. So I started using collaborative Google documents.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Collaborate with influencers: Partner with social media influencers or advocates who align with your cause. Here are some best practices to make sure you get this valuable data: Streamline guest registration : Streamline the check-in process by using a well-designed registration form or a digital sign-up platform.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

From their website : “Our process is designed to help leaders and organizations who want to proactively understand and address racism, both in their organization and in the community where the organization is working. We facilitate workshops and trainings, coach and develop teams and leaders, and consult and support systems-level change.”.

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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. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. We have shifted to digital-mediated interactions for almost everything in our lives.

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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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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. But there are also bots that can help combat workplace harassment.

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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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