Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Your warmup is just as essential as the content that you deliver. That’s what happened last month, when I facilitated an online workshop on (yes) online facilitation for my volunteer managers association, NVAVA. If you want to get sophisticated, set up a poll and then share the responses. Make your warm-up question funny.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

I was able to learn Candid content and get to know my awesome fellow trainers.” We were able to design virtual workshops in a matter of weeks, whereas under normal circumstances, it may have taken us months. “Working virtually for our team meant we worked collaboratively in a way that wasn’t possible prepandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Three Ways to Think About Content. Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. Think Beyond Presenters.

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AccelEvents

JULY 21, 2021

Polls, Q&As, and live chats. Video content syndication. Event customization / white label. Ticketing and registration. Keynote speaker session. Breakout sessions. Virtual and hybrid exhibitor booths and trade show halls. Networking with individuals in one-on-one or select virtual rooms. Downloadable materials. Pre-recorded videos.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Someone said to me during a workshop a few weeks back – it really sucks to log into Facebook and see a two-star post quality ranking. This prompted me to post a question on my wall: How many of you Facebook Page admins notice your post quality ranking every time you visit? Spredfast is a listening/content distribution tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

During the summer, I’ve been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. Sometimes, you can design the icebreaker to connect with the content of the training. help people to relax. break down social barriers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Why Extreme Content Delivery Does Not Equal Learning. Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. Finally, learners made a decision to incorporate the skills in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. All workshop participants will receive a discount coupon for the book. It developed into something called " SpiderSchool.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

Last week, I faciltated a mini-workshop at the Silicon Valley/Peninsula Nonprofit Leadership Forum hosted by Compasspoint. I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D.

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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. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content. What content, lines, or ideas resonated? Documentation of Session.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Common offers include: Lifetime or VIP access to your online summit or the recorded content. You’ll want people who could provide great content for your target audience, as well as someone who has brand name recognition that would lend credibility to the event. Selling your core offer with an All-Access Pass included.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Then comes the difficult part – identifying what “associated” metrics from social, email, and your web site that you need to collect. What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. They also look at qualitative data, including doing a content analysis of their member feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. Flickr Photo by Matthew Field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. Download it here.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Common offers include: Lifetime or VIP access to your online summit or the recorded content. You’ll want people who could provide great content for your target audience, as well as someone who has brand name recognition that would lend credibility to the event. Selling your core offer with an All-Access Pass included.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. tags: arts ).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

But they were curious about what kind of content they should tweet, and how to strike the right balance between carrying on conversation and self-promotion. Strive to create a helpful balance between information about your organization and content that has value for your audience. I have two words for you: balance and value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. And, best of all, I had young people in the workshop - all age 17 and under - the generation dubbed as " Generation Z. I revised a lot of the content to match the audience.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Nonprofits often struggle with creating effective content and engagement strategies. Besides producing great content, and writing about your champions and influencers, we have a couple of other tips that can also make a big difference. Give readers an action they can take after reading your content. Break Through the Noise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation. I was reflecting back to those days and I realized that part of my work included content curation, although at the time I didn’t call it that. I also taught many workshops where I included techniques on how to deal with information overload caused by using the Internet to get our work done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. mean for you? hard to use ?"

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AccelEvents

JUNE 30, 2021

Broken down into multiple sessions, the event included a growth acceleration workshop, a panel discussion with expert guests from Salesforce, Why Sales Network, and parcelLab, a Q&A, and plenty of networking opportunities! Growth Acceleration Framework Workshop. It gives them context allowing you to deliver more relevant content.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 28, 2022

Here are some tips for making your next virtual or hybrid event more enjoyable and engaging: Mail each attendee a “Swag Bag” Launch interactive polls. You can also invite speakers and attendees from all over the world because your content is now available to everyone. What about workshops and breakout sessions?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I’m going to be kicking things off in a couple minutes with some awesome polls to get to know you better. And I basically do a live workshop every single month, and it’s only $49. She’s giving me up, it’s an amazing workshop. Take my poll, fundraising friends. Susan is in my program. So humor me.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So if you have to leave early, or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, don’t worry, we will get all that in your hands later on today. We love doing these webinars, we got great guest speakers, great content, today is no exception, by any means. . Andy: So we’ll see if the poll works.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 21, 2021

The 2-day virtual conference was packed with actionable sessions and interactive workshops about marketing and business growth strategies. Upgrading Traditional Marketing Channels: Email, Content, SEO with Growth Engineering. Interactive workshops and presentations. In-session chats, polls, and Q&A.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 21, 2020

The 2-day virtual conference was packed with actionable sessions and interactive workshops about marketing and business growth strategies. Upgrading Traditional Marketing Channels: Email, Content, SEO with Growth Engineering. Interactive workshops and presentations. In-session chats, polls, and Q&A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

” Rally did a graphic recording of the content and summarized the takeaways as: Innovation doesn’t come from organizations. I have also been studying and practicing “unpresenting ” with Heather Gold, plus improv and stand up workshops with others. It comes from individuals with ideas. Think about the end first.

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