Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I've mostly used wikis as a personal portfolio and have participated in community or collaborative wikis facilitated by others. I've been a participant in design discussions about wiki projects, but never the main architect.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

This streamlined approach enhances the user experience and facilitates efficient scholarship navigation for applicants. Proactively communicate with potential candidates. One successful strategy is to form a dedicated team tasked with creating a comprehensive promotion plan that leverages all main communication channels.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Arrange inclusive community events: Community gatherings that celebrate diversity and inclusivity can resonate with a broad audience, including those who are passionate about social causes. Provide clear direction: Ensure that donors who may not be familiar with digital wallets or contactless payments receive clear instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. I modify instructions or make accommodations for physical disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. Add authenticity by using unposed images of real community members rather than stock photos. Tell compelling stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week. How does the room set up support or fight your instructional design?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The organization Unleashing Hope builds community through their CauseVox campaign with donor wall messages. Alongside clear instructions and a seamless donation form , you can enhance a donor’s experience with creative touches, such as sending a heartfelt letter or a small token of appreciation to the honoree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S., The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions. However, participants had to do this with people shaped sticky notes and a speech bubble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Similarly, provide clear instructions for individuals interested in volunteering or getting involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Gordon Meyer has good reflection on the Community Media Workshop Blog). (2) I wondered about a creative way to use already collected burning questions without taking up instructional time to rehash them again through an icebreaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. Hearing from so many people.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Dave's most recent critical friend post offers some thoughts about community. mmm… community.

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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. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. Here are ten things I've learned about making these kinds of community input meetings successful. Bringing these different communities together in the same space might not have created safe space for the true issues of each group to emerge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I recently joined the advisory board of the Leadership Learning Community. Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. The facilitator told us a specific time to be back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The second week of the workshop started last week and it is a week of "field trips" to existing communities of practice. I followed to lead trip into the NpTech Tag Community. or social technologies into community of practice work ask amazing questions. May not translate to other communities.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . Yes, people attend conferences and trade shows in order to learn and grow their skill set, but they also attend to network with other industry professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Who will facilitate? These are some of the best practices of planning a high quality session. Recently, Points of Light offered an instructional webinar on how to design a conference session. Pay attention to instructions or tips on different segments of the proposal form. Lori Jean Mantooth offers a summary.

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Qgiv

MAY 11, 2021

You could also send a PDF with step-by-step instructions on facilitating employee matching activities or ways to promote remote participation. As a business owner, I support causes that sustain and build the community I also work with; a rising tide lifts all boats. Seek Out and Promote Local Partnerships.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.

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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. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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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 chatter beyond the Reddit community. Think about how mobile can solve a community need, find an existing data set, and deliver that information in an app.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

– Hold virtual ‘town halls’ to educate the community on places people can go to get food. Host a virtual gathering via Zoom to educate supporters on the issue and offer tools to communicate with officials. No way to effectively communicate changes in protocol for key programmatic activities. HUMAN SERVICES. Urgent issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

So, I’m thrilled that community manager, Meghan Ventura, who is responsible for cultivating the community presence of Games for Change agreed to write this guest post about nonprofits who are using games for social change. And, don’t miss this special offer: Get 10% off tickets with the code beth_g4c14. In Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

Briefly remind members what you’ve offered them in the past year by mentioning: Successful events you’ve planned Community-building activities you’ve facilitated Services or opportunities you’ve offered After a quick jaunt down memory lane, your member should be able to fondly recall all they’ve gained after a year as a member of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated.

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