Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Consider how much you should raise to effectively help your mission while keeping your budget in mind. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As part ongoing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am designing, facilitating, and delivering workshops with Compasspoint. Last week, I had the great pleasure of presenting a one-day workshop with colleagues Holly Minch , JD Lasica , Janet Fouts , and Susan Tenby. Masters of relationship marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of “modeling the model,” so we wanted to use and model best practices for designing effective meetings on their preferred platforms. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out. Design must comes first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content. Mindmap by Jane Genovese.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. Here they are: My Three Rituals. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Social media icons According to Charity Net USA, incorporating social media buttons into your nonprofit website is essential for effective marketing. These buttons serve as a gateway to the valuable content that your organization shares through its social media channels.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. Becoming "content fried" is a potential hazard for content curators, and that can get in the way of being efficient. Reflection: Reflection doesn't have to be a huge amount of time to be effective.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. While the actual sprint produces a prototype in 5 days, we’ll explore the building blocks in 60 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

However, the Social Fundraiser study makes it clear that many participants struggle to fundraise effectively. Creating shareable multimedia content tailored for social media encourages fundraiser engagement and viral promotion of campaigns. Optimize your content and donation pages for mobile users.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Visualization Techniques. Takeaways. 18 Minutes A Day.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. 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. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Take a look at any nonprofit dashboard and the most effective ones probably have an organizational process that lies beneath. Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be doing a session designing and delivering effective training with John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard on March 14th at 10:30 am. And, if that wasn’t enough, will do a mini-workshop on using content curation for professional learning. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Conference: March 12-15th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Communications have more impact. Social media content mirrors other channels. Solicit and share stories. Key influencers take action, including media. Training Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Specifically, the workshop will be focused on: Introducing and applying network tools, frameworks, and case studies that can help network leaders assess their effectiveness and increase their impact. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. I revised the cards for the first time in a while to reflect some of the new content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Effective learning that creates results and transfers to action over time starts with unleashing people’s existing knowledge – they need to pull forward pre-existing information. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. This is something you do at the beginning but throughout your content delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

In online discussions with nonprofit techies, Megan Keane pointed to the loss of an anti-censorship tool in places like Iran, and Nancy Schwartz noted in an online discussion, “this is a kick to independent content publishing, not just convenience on the readers side.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. Marcelo set up the overall context: How can NGOs effectively engage donors online in an ever-growing age of complexity and connectivity? Content is king. A multi-screen world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts. Even harder to incorporate “going meta.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Reflective Listening Techniques. 3: Don’t judge the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity.

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MAY 3, 2016

AI – Artificial Intelligence : A variety of techniques built in the LMS system that replicates the role of a human tutor/instructor, effectively guiding and coaching the learners through the content.

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