Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In philanthropy, unlike democracy, there is often no way for people to participate–to share what they think or to influence decisions. In recent years, that model is being challenged. What matters most in this model are values–and one in particular: equity. Those at the top decide. How Did Participatory Grantmaking Start?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. It’s about building relationships and trust between different players in the ecosystem, and it’s about creating a shared vision for the future.” Someone smarter just blew into town. Don’t compete.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Forward funders have coalesced around an aspirational goal to move from individual grantmaking strategies to a shared vision and coordinated action. Digital disruption : The rise of digital platforms and online advertising has disrupted traditional revenue models for local news, making it difficult for many outlets to adapt.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

They go by many different names – volunteer councils, auxiliaries, “friends” groups, and more – but regardless of their varied titles, such groups share a great deal. Of course, there are auxiliaries that are adaptable, responsive, and truly collaborative. This is where collaboration is especially crucial. A Path to Change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. Hierarchies are becoming flatter, work more collaborative and co-location less relevant. A collaborative process also helps to build trust.

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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.

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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. Kania and Kramer developed the methodology to correct the practice of isolated intervention, choosing instead diverse partnerships aligned around shared goals. Communicate openly and timely.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspired by more than 40 years of collaboration with private school leaders, Blackbaud has created a track of sessions for ATLIS 2024 , the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools’ annual conference. But how do you unlock this power without knowing how to write code? Where do you start?

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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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. Eduardo Briceño Today, Briceno shares these additional insights with us: Question: How can we overcome the Performance Paradox and unlock growth?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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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. Capital campaigns require input from many stakeholders, both internal and external.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Cultivating this discipline of planning can be greatly eased and enhanced by engaging your stakeholders in collaborative inquiry, defined by Jennifer Donahoo as a process that offers participants a systematic way to explore issues and determine resolutions through shared inquiry, reflection, and dialogue. Collecting the data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Since co-authoring Social by Social last year, David Wilcox and I have had the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate various events for community and local government groups. And I want to share it with you, get your ideas, and start a long-term process of collaboratively improving and refining this model.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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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. Systematically keep track of the following: Donor metrics: Who are your supporters, and what interests do they share?

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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.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. New power is behind some of the most impactful movements (and business models) of the decade. The Castle: Pairs old power values with an old power leadership model.

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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 lessons can you share? Presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Please share your own in the comments section. Every collaboration or content management site needs one.

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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. We’ve achieved a model for success that we can now use as a foundation to build from.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. shared mission. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

What gets lost in translation is the nuance of the promises that every organization makes to the constituency it serves, all of which are not defined merely by common ecosystem business processes such as fundraising but instead shared investments in mission delivery. This is genuinely a good thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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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. Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture.

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