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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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

As an Executive Director, you know that the heart of your nonprofit isn’t just your cause—it’s also the people who govern and guide it. You can tap into this diversity to create a collaborative environment. Assign roles that play to each member’s strengths and facilitate open, continuous communication.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Adopt technologies that simplify collaboration and enhance communication , like board portals or other real-time tools. The more people know about your cause, the wider your net. Collaborate with professional associations, industry groups, and affinity networks relevant to your organization’s mission and sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Online collaboration tools and platforms give nonprofits the opportunity for connectivity and collaboration internally as well as with external stakeholders like volunteers and board members. But it can lead to being overwhelmed or what has been dubbed “ Collaborative Overload ” or “ Collaboration Tech Tool Overload.

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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. If you’ve been looking for an initiative to spark interdepartmental collaboration, a chatbot would be a good test case.

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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

APRIL 29, 2024

However, in the dynamic landscape of contemporary social change, there is a growing recognition of the need to evolve from this conventional approach toward a more collaborative and inclusive model—one grounded in partnership. The nonprofit governance orthodoxy Nonprofit governance operates within a framework of three legal duties.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Note from Beth: Last week I was in New Orleans for the National Assembly of State Arts Councils meeting. I facilitated a peer session with Public Information Officers and a Mini-Workshop on managing and measuring a social media presence. LightBox Collaborative is very proud to present our 5th Annual Editorial Calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Now that we have close to two-years of zoom meetings under our belts, we are discovering that people are exhausted from video conference meetings – and engagement (and productivity) may be plumeeting. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout.

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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. He promises as cities flourish, His people dwelling within will also flourish. Obeying these commands pursues the common good of a city and its people. God loves cities.

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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. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as “ learning from adjacent practices.” Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. Funder misalignment on movement needs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Keep in mind that learning organizations are those that prioritize the development of – people – everyone comes to work every day in part to grow, and to support one another in doing so. Each of us can regularly reflect on how well the habits we’re engaged in are working and what adjustments we want to try.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Now that we have close to two-years of Zoom meetings under our belts, we are discovering that people are exhausted from video conference meetings – and engagement (and productivity) may be plummeting. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout.

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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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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

“The abrupt shift happened almost overnight for Harold Grinspoon Foundation and we had to shift very quickly,” said Jordan, “my president said to me at 4:45 PM on a Friday that I need to accommodate for 100 people in our workforce to be able to connect and continue their work remotely on Monday. Zero to Three’s Crisis Challenges + Shifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Management guru Jim Collins has stated nonprofits are "in desperate need of greater discipline - disciplined planning, disciplined people, disciplined governance, disciplined allocation of resources.". A thorough collaborative inquiry process will follow a process which includes: Framing the issue. Collecting the data. One of the most.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Perhaps you want a committee comprised solely of people with lived experience related to your nonprofit’s mission—i.e. people who have experienced houselessness or survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence. After all, general announcements may not reach the people and organizations that are important to your work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among the noteworthy features included the ideal ecosystem are (i) the virtual events channel (reflecting the constraints newly imposed by COVID-19) and (ii) the increasingly feature-rich WhatsApp channel. Digital Storytelling Framework. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling. 2) Information Hub.

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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. Collaborative technology is incredible. It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. So I started using collaborative Google documents. And now the tone was…#TechFail!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. 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). Then I asked the people who were standing at the other side of the room, what was it about social media that made them uncomfortable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? As an icebreaker, I asked them to write down one word that leads to a fruitful collaboration. Straight presentation kills all learning. Rob Cottingham.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. She calls it "joyful funeral" -- that you quickly say this didn't work, reflect on why, and move on.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . The pioneering, pull-no-punches Simone Joyaux , who passed away too soon on Sunday May 2, 2021, understood this well before people were talking about it. You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. It takes a village.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

It is not a time to reflect, it is a time to act. We believe, we know, that moving the needle on climate change requires collaboration on all levels. Their platform allows people to support local, community organizations easily and all in one place. No one individual, company, government agency, or nonprofit can go it alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. But, you can create a collaborative mindmap online using this application. Update: Some more reflection on it. Does collaboration on the mindmapping tool work best in real time or asynchronous - or does it not matter?

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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. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes. Illustration by Beth Kanter. That’s the theory at least.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to give everyday people the chance to fight back against cancer by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. Access to Network Collaboration Platform. Download the Ultimate Guide to Recurring Giving. Haymakers for Hope: Haymakers Harriers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager.

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