Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Rituals can boost our personal productivity because they allow us to focus and reach our goals without distraction. There is a whole book devoted to the topic, “ Rituals at Work.”) In 2023, I continued to present keynotes, deliver practical workshops using generative AI for nonprofit productivity, and write articles.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Networked Facilitation.

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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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Nimble AMS

JULY 2, 2020

But well before this year, the topic of collaborating remotely has been near and dear to the Nimble AMS team’s heart. Because Nimble AMS , built on the Salesforce platform , has always been ready to support remote collaboration. With Nimble AMS, your staff can be prepared to collaborate, no matter where they are.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The.orgSource and.orgCommunity teams send our best wishes to our clients and friends for a happy and productive 2023. With platforms and products multiplying across the internet, education is one area where that fierce competition is on full display. Sharon will facilitate a 360-degree discussion about trust. Our Year in Review.

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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. Task them with staying abreast of new developments that improve products, services, and customer-centricity.

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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. Salesforce and WordPress offer similar products.

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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. ENA’s culture journey brought the group from a score of minus one in 2017 to a score of 40.5

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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

AUGUST 21, 2023

Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Identify staffers who will be ambassadors and fill these collaborative roles: Identify employees across the organization to be ambassadors. Someone smarter just blew into town. Don’t compete.

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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? When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? What is Collaborative Overload?

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Remote work is challenging teams.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? Today, Claire will be the facilitator. Taking a few minutes to establish these rules ensures a productive and respectful environment. Create a judgment-free zone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity. Horwath : I define strategic as possessing insight that leads to advantage.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 22, 2023

Value Exchange Instead of merely asking for a donation, an online store provides a tangible product in exchange for support. Showcase Stories and Impact Products can tell a story. Community Involvement Collaborate with local artisans or businesses to feature their products on your store.

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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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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Instead, they serve as partners in your work, representing the community you serve and even boosting the productivity of your workforce. Oversight—Will the organization’s staff facilitate committee meetings, or will the committee elect a chair/co-chairs? Work in Collaboration, Not Competition When done well, maintaining one (or more!)

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. If people enjoy participating in meetings and find them to be productive, they may want to become even more invested in and give generously to your capital campaign. Think back to the last not-so-productive meeting.

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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. Windy Borman , filmmaker at DVA Productions. Starting a Collaborative Project. Working with Remote Collaborators.

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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. These type of interactions can improve your team’s engagement and general morale, leading to improved productivity. . Incorporate Energizers In Your Meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. Our tips are here. Take the Chairs Away.

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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. What that means in practice is that norms are the ground rules for how a group of people communicate and collaborate with each other.

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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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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JUNE 9, 2018

After five very productive years at Tech Networks of Boston (TNB), I am now looking for my next professional challenge. In my next job, I’d like to focus on some or all of the following: Weaving networks among nonprofit organizations in order to build collaboration, peer learning, and communities of practice. “Excelsior!”

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In essence, it’s not just about acquiring software; it’s about fostering an ongoing partnership that facilitates the achievement of the nonprofit’s mission through efficient volunteer management. It means having a dedicated team that understands your mission and goals and tailors the software to align with those objectives.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity. Horwath : I define strategic as possessing insight that leads to advantage.

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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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TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Facilitate one-on-one relationships first. Create collaborative goals. Forcing collaboration isn’t necessarily always a bad thing. By designing a project that requires a mutual dependency on one another, you’re ensuring your team members are interacting and collaborating to achieve a common goal.

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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. What that means in practice is that norms are the ground rules for how a group of people communicate and collaborate with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

When nonprofits invest in creating physical spaces that inspire employees to show up for work, staff is more engaged, productive, happy, and healthy. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. But there are challenges, too.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

Event Budgeting : Collaborating with the committee and nonprofit leadership to establish a realistic budget that encompasses all necessary expenses, while maximizing revenue generation. Transition Meetings: Facilitate transition meetings between the outgoing and incoming chairs to share insights, lessons learned, and best practices.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. Provides free access to thought leadership and global collaboration.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To throw you some technical speak, root cause is the fundamental breakdown or failure of a process or product, which when resolved and corrected, prevents recurrence of that failure or problem. It’s also a collaborative technique to engage subject matter experts in identification of the true root cause of the problem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling. 3) Business Profile.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

One of the participants was Ericha Hager, the Regional Collaborative Coordinator for Community Media Access Partnership. After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California.

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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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