Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To gain a comprehensive understanding of what your experience should look like, and what to look for when evaluating software, it’s vital to consider how a software provider prioritizes your success. From a responsive customer support team to ongoing training and software updates, these elements play a crucial role in your success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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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. Evaluate Empathy Skill s We should also evaluate empathy skills as part of job performance appraisals. By evaluating these skills, we can ensure empathetic leadership becomes an essential criterion for success.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. Collaboration with academia: Partner with educational institutions to create programs that benefit both students and local journalism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. The SQ evaluates a leader’s current mindset and behaviors using the “3A Framework” – acumen, allocation, action.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Evaluate how any earned income streams you pursue align with your organization’s mission, values, and core purpose.

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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. Leadership training on communications styles.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Improving the quality of fundraising training and development. Break down organizational silos and encourage greater collaboration between teams. Fund the development of a website to facilitate peer-to-peer evaluations of nonprofits. Developing public trust and confidence in the sector.

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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. This word cloud is from a virtual workshop I facilitated asking participants what the barriers to effective virtual meetings are: technology, engagement, connectivity, and participation. Roles may include: Facilitator: Designs and Facilitates Meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline? It is very important because this is when the energy level is at its lowest point in a training. Friending the Finish Line.

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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. These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. So what to do?

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

We recently wrapped up our 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions event here at Classy. The Classy team created engaging content that Collaborative participants could use in their professional lives. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. While there are many technology consultants available, take the time to evaluate what they specialize in and the services they provide. Does your consultant offer ongoing training?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). Fluency in social media skills.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. I assume most people start there because it is arguably the easiest part to grapple with; at least you can quantitatively evaluate and compare various solutions. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Even better.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising. Collaborate with peers : Engage with other fundraisers and organizations to share insights and best practices. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

But when leaders can admit ‘it's okay to not be okay’ and that all of us – even them – experience challenges, it allows the team to rally together, support one another and become resilient together.” -- Nathan Magnuson, Corporate Leadership Development Consultant, Facilitator, Coach and author of, Stand Out! Boyatzis and Melvin L.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. For example, a job interview, performance evaluation, or strategy decision.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

But when leaders can admit ‘it's okay to not be okay’ and that all of us – even them – experience challenges, it allows the team to rally together, support one another and become resilient together.” -- Nathan Magnuson, Corporate Leadership Development Consultant, Facilitator, Coach and author of, Stand Out! Boyatzis and Melvin L.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But when leaders can admit ‘it's okay to not be okay’ and that all of us – even them – experience challenges, it allows the team to rally together, support one another and become resilient together.” -- Nathan Magnuson, Corporate Leadership Development Consultant, Facilitator, Coach and author of, Stand Out! Boyatzis and Melvin L.

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Leadership Authoring Environment Team 52

.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

A technology assessment is a performance evaluation of your IT systems. The purpose of an IT assessment is to evaluate whether your systems’ functionality and efficiency are in alignment with organizational goals and strategy. Any of the following objectives and concerns might trigger an evaluation.

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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

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). 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.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Collaborate with local businesses.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As a teenager, asserting my independence, my friends and I would take in the train to catch late night showings of Laser Floyd in their Rose planetarium. So for me, the best part is the collaboration - getting to put our minds together and see what incredible experiences we can create for others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A few that I noted were: Cloud tools facilitate real-time collaboration. Security and management are in the hands of "trained, dedicated experts," which frees you up to focus on your mission, rather than the grunt work of technology maintenance. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff). If you want to just dip.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

from pitching your cause to donors and funding agencies, to delivering services to members and clients; and from seeking public support and the ear of decision-makers, to collaborating with other organizations in projects of common interest. Evaluation. delivering a workshop), compared to evaluating a larger-scale outcome (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Looking at how to be less of training but more on learning. That the old metrics aren't working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? However, we may be thinking of about it slightly different - a facilitative curator versus community driven curation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. The community will see that you aren’t making changes, aren’t communicating, and aren’t collaborating and will disengage. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well.

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