Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

(This is why we tend to remember that one negative piece of feedback while the positive comments fade away). It’s about reimagining systems, facilitating change, and co-creating a better future. Here are three simple, evidence-based practices that have been shown to boost your mood, well-being, and help you savor what is going well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. Moments in which best practices, know-how, and insights are exchanged, streamlined stories are high leverage strategies to make knowledge memorable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! Our first session will set the stage and context for the practices of “Impact Leadership.”

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

I was interested to hear Allison’s comments on managing an organization specifically for women across such a broad canvas. As the executive director, you facilitate an International group that is service-oriented and driven by women. Networking takes practice. Women who join Zonta are doers. They want to accomplish goals.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The goal of these activities is to help form strong relationships to help facilitate honest and impactful decisions in the board room. . We have seen the same effect with using the chat feature and enabling board members to write down their comments or questions without interrupting the current speaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. If your panel isn’t on the list, add a link and title in the comments. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Trust me.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 2, 2020

Using Nimble AMS, your association can use Salesforce Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff. So, just as you might comment on someone’s photo in your Facebook feed, you can comment on the status of an event registration record. Blog] Practical tips to prepare your association for virtual work.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Emotionally intelligent: Your next leader should be self-aware and flexible and should regularly practice empathy and self-management. Leave a comment and join in the conversation! Mentor and train your future leaders. There are leaders and potential leaders throughout your nonprofit and not just on the executive level.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. Jenna is re-thinking the practice for next year. As the moderator, it took some time to become proficient on the platform, but with practice it became easier to facilitate these meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Assess venues for safety practices. Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. . They can get rid of any inappropriate comments and deliver posted questions to the facilitator.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! Reading these comments, I felt terrible. I am a member of the Technology of Participation network of facilitators. Currently, the best practice for a meeting with some complexity is to include a technology producer.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Always developing a meeting agenda, sharing it with attendees beforehand, and explicitly asking them to review it and note any questions or comments. To ensure everyone is on the same wavelength and ready to contribute, be sure to take these best practices into account: Start your meetings by getting people talking and focused.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Here are practical tips on how to engage your aging donors and encourage planned gtiving. Practical tips to encourage planned giving Here are 13 practical tips on how to relate to and engage older donors and encourage planned giving. Please share in the comments section below. We’re all aging, right? Find out how!

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Read on for key ways in which your nonprofit can learn from time-honored business practices. You also need to invest in quality technology to facilitate your communications, analyze your data and impact, and raise the funds and support necessary for your work. Tell us in the comments! Invest in your team. Invest in technology.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Practice your pitch – Gain confidence through preparation and repetition. Tools that allow participants to create individual or team fundraising pages and share updates on social media facilitate this. Share your “why” – Connect the cause to your personal values and passion to spark others’ interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Another way to practice reflection is to incorporate a five minute reflection at the end of every meeting to reflect on meeting norms. Having a workplace flexibility policy can facilitate it. Share in the comments below.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To ensure effective project communication, keep in mind these best practices for groups communicating in these virtual channels. and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations. Include as much of the team as possible at any given time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. What did you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negative comment? Well, first you need a strategy and have a practice of listening in place. What are your tips and best practices? So, how exactly do you craft one? Does your organization have a social media work flow?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Click the session title if you’d like to leave a comment. If you want to leave feedback or comments about the sessions I am a part of, please do! We’ll address emerging best practices and discuss the associated opportunities and challenges of community-driven strategies. Fundraising. Leadership. Consult the voting FAQ !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2015

We learn so much about professional practice from having honest and candid conversations. Eugene is always thought in the way he designs and facilitates activities to bring people together to learn from one other. Next, Eugene facilitated a fishbowl conversation with Janne. Please share in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community – and special surprise guests who will join us via video. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

They can come with insights and comments, rather than having to go over each document as a group and wasting everyone’s time brainstorming on the spot. Assign a speaker to each agenda item and notify them, so they can gather the right resources and practice any presentations. This applies to everyone who’s attending. prepare data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

This panel will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. If you are proposing a panel, leave a comment. The description: Social Media Nonprofit Measurement: Beyond the BS. The Nonprofit Narrative - [link] coordinated by Dan Portnoy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. ” Lots of comments pros and cons. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

I’m just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It’s hard because you have to be very disciplined about noticing and documenting your practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The authors were kind enough to give me a copy to give away on this blog, so if you leave a comment you could be the lucky winner of a book! Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# Zilch by Nancy Lublin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. There is lots of advice out there about how to design and facilitate meetings.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Thank you to those who have already voted or commented! Please support me by voting and commenting here. Outside of NetSquared, I am a trainer, blogger and facilitator as well as the co-author of Social by Social: a practical guide to using technology for social impact. Leave a comment on the application here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

This workshop will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. Let me know in the comments so I can tweet about it! Measuring Social Change & Media: Beyond BS. Monday, March 11 11:00AM – 1:30PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Commenting on the posts in other aligned partner’s Facebook pages. My brand page for my blog has specific objectives and I mostly post practical and useful material about how to use social media effectively. Post content on my brand page as the page administrator, but comment through my personal profile.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

So we have put together this list of virtual conference best practices to help you hit the ground running and host the best conference possible! Best Practices for Running a Virtual Conference. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult.

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