EveryAction

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Why we like it: beside the more than 70 Idea Labs, two Keynote speakers, Snap Learning sessions, and Ignite sessions, early risers will also love Sunrise Sessions , which include a "photography safari," early morning yoga, and an experiential dance workshop. Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC). Where: San Jose, CA. Create Good Conference.

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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

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages. I modeled that I don't know everything.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

The Collaborative (Classy). About : Collaborative, brought to you by Classy.org, is a two-day experience dedicated to nonprofit professionals. Join us for Collaborative: Virtual Sessions and on Classy’s virtual event platform, Classy Live. . Make sure you save time for the sponsor exhibit hall. . When: June 7-8, 2023.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. And that means saying goodbye to cubicles and fixed seating plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. 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). This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. My reflections are here.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Be open to collaborating on programs, events, and funding opportunities with other local organizations that serve the same or complementary constituencies. Before committing to a collaborative venture, you evaluate each potential partner to ensure alignment with your organization’s mission, values, and goals.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

Do some research and see if there are any organizations or schools near you that are hosting workshops, lectures, film screenings, or other educational opportunities you can attend! Donate to support the Women Business Collaborative here. million workers and generating $1.8 trillion in receipts in 2019. Donate to the fund here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. He wrote popular books on computer hackers and then collaborated on two bestsellers with the legendary IDEO. Platform builder.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Like a seesaw, organizations that collaborate can keep moving forward if they remain focused on their collective push, that is, their mutual mission. There is no one size fits all approach to collaboration. Organizations addressing similar social problems or serving similar constituents stand to benefit the most from collaboration.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. He wrote popular books on computer hackers and then collaborated on two bestsellers with the legendary IDEO. Platform builder.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. He wrote popular books on computer hackers and then collaborated on two bestsellers with the legendary IDEO. Platform builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

Note from Beth: This resource has lots of useful framework and design tips for designing and implementing convenings which can also be applied to designing workshops, meetings, and other gatherings. His particular passion is finding ways that technology can enable new models for delivery, measurement, and collaboration.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Note From Beth: I’m on my way to Australia and New Zealand lead a series of workshops on Networked Nonprofits and Measurement, culminating with a keynote at this year’s ConnectingUp Conference in Australia, so expect to see a few interesting guest posts. … Read More Fundraising'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale. George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. It is currently focused on 5 main areas: Hand Made – Portraits of Emergent New Culture, Traveling Pantry, Community of Practice, Organizational Workshops, and Research. What do you think? Check it out! Great slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

I still keep thinking about one of the comments that someone made me to during the workshop I did with Kaliya Hamlin on Web2.0 It should be unique, unless for some reason you want to integrate or connect with another tag stream. tools at NCDD.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill. Collaborating with those who work in the organization, board members and other local organizations are a great way to offer professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Note from Beth: In my recent book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit and leading workshops for nonprofits all over the world on this topic, I continue to be passionate about the need to build resilient and sustainable nonprofit leaders and organizations. This is true now more than ever. Welcome to the new normal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 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. The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Autodesk ® Building Design Suite Ultimate : 3D building design software with building information modeling (BIM) and computer-aided design (CAD) tools, including AutoCAD and Revit. Autodesk Sustainability Workshop — sustainable engineering and architecture support for educators and students.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We are also doing far more to spread the word about technology for rights activists, often in close collaboration with major partners in the human rights field such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS. The information can then be erased from the phone, to safeguard it from the phone’s possible loss or confiscation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 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. To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning. February 27, 2011.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. Here are three simple steps to get you started: Plan for Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The model balances content, learning design, and participants. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Three Models. No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively? Who in our organization is going to do the work? How are ever going to find the time to do social media? Social media does take time even if you are efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 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. The Yemen Team has some additional reflections on their workshop blog. It is important to add this framing.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Our competitions are talent scouted: we go out and talk to as many people as possible, run workshops and trainings and get people to think about what they might solve and then submit. We do this through scouting and in the weekends as they are high pressure and fund and collaborative so you can really, really see how people work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2011

But some collaborated to manage their expenses and a third of organizations actually increased their expenses. In order to meet demand (or in some cases, survive), nonprofits planned to alter their staff size, their service area, or their business model — all scenarios that bring risk and uncertainty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Recently, I reconnected with colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch , who I met in 2005 through Nancy White's Online Community workshop. From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

The strategy talks about an updated digital experience , a new learning model that helps people with their "lifelong learning journeys," and the creation of a Smithsonian Commons —a new part of our digital presence dedicated to stimulating learning, creation, and innovation through open access to Smithsonian research, collections and communities.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. Even the conference itself was a model of social bridging. Birds flew through the proceedings. Families playing, vendors hawking, students kissing, old ladies kibitzing.

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