The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Americans today question the value of a college degree and mistrust the so-called “ivory tower” experts. They also distrust the media, calling bias and questioning facts. One exec expressed interest in resources to share with our members to teach them how to have conversations about controversial topics.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

But, careful event planners know that networking at virtual events is simply a matter of creating space for those opportunities. Here are some of our top suggestions for creating networking opportunities at virtual events: Use Live Chat. When creating your event agenda, be sure to schedule a time for social interactions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Nonprofits now have a range of remote and hybrid events to choose between, and they can make the most of them thanks to platforms like PayBee that facilitate streaming and other digital tools. Just give your supporters a way to create their very own fundraising portal or landing page and send it to their friends. 3) Hybrid fundraisers.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? Branding depends on creating multiple messages that speak with one powerful voice across the association. A facilitator can help sort through obstacles and guide people toward effective interaction.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the book, Strategic.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

MarTech Ssacks, or Marketing Technology stacks, provide nonprofit teams with a vital way to create efficient and effective marketing efforts. As your nonprofit team begins that conversation, be sure to write down the answers. As your nonprofit team begins that conversation, be sure to write down the answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. The nonprofit organizations I’m working with are are seeking out ways to create collective resilience in their workplaces. The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. Create a judgment-free zone. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. Ask if anyone has any questions. Do you have one in place?

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

But, careful event planners know that networking at virtual events is simply a matter of creating space for those opportunities. Here are some of our top suggestions for creating networking opportunities at virtual events: Use Live Chat. When creating your event agenda, be sure to schedule a time for social interactions.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2023

orgCommunity event featured interactive conversations led by engaging speakers , with decades of leadership experience in the association sphere. We spent our time in round table discussion with association leadership professionals , learning and sharing our own experiences. With work, MacRae was able to improve the culture at ENA.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Information is everything that is coming at us. However, to have data requires intention.

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. We created this list of tips to help you develop a strategy that assuages any fear and sets you up for networking success at physical or virtual conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis.

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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

We now provide you with our new breakout room feature within Workshops to facilitate concentrated conversations. Getting to know everyone: The best kind of personal connection is specialized, and writing a list of questions for each breakout room will help foster that conversation!

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the new book, Strategic.

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Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Lucky you for facilitating an important session at the wrong time. What I’ve discovered over these last many months, though, is that volunteer managers (and anyone, really) can shift the mood of the group by focusing on one area of facilitation: The warm-up. If your group is small and you have time for conversation, all the better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? The Back Channel.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With employees working all over the country, or world, at different times of day and juggling competing priorities, effective project communication is not only helpful but necessary, creating cohesion and efficiency internally and with partner teams. Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

In January 2017, as the MobLab moved to expand its mission to serve the broader global progressive movement and become a stand alone entity, they commissioned the report to address these two questions: What would a globally connected, thriving capacity-building ecosystem for modern advocacy and campaigning look like?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 5, 2022

Write as if you’re having a conversation 5. Capture your natural conversation tone by recording yourself 6. Create a sense of urgency 8. Some questions I try to answer about the recipient: Why would the person care about this email? What can create a connection between my writing and the reader?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Now more than ever we must create a robust workplace culture and stronger relationships to retain our humanness. We are not used to conversations with another person while we are staring in a mirror. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. Why Remote Work Is Exhausting.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you’re wondering where to get begin, consider starting by spending some time creating a full committee meeting schedule. Always developing a meeting agenda, sharing it with attendees beforehand, and explicitly asking them to review it and note any questions or comments. Kicking off the conversation. Planning and preparation.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Donation Page Tips for Skyrocketing Conversions 1. Guarantee Security Donating online can raise all sorts of security questions. Make sure your donation page is ready to welcome the small screen, facilitating donations via mobile and enabling easy sharing of your page. Rest easy, your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

RSVP now to join us for the next episode of Nonprofits Live on user-generated content and explore the process of creating media opportunities with your community. We'll be talking with nonprofit industry leaders sharing their unique insights on content created in community.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 22, 2023

While donations and grants are traditional revenue streams, here’s a question to give some serious thought. Whether it’s artwork from beneficiaries or items that represent the impact of your work, your merchandise can be a conversation starter about your mission. Showcase Stories and Impact Products can tell a story.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 9, 2012

Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. I create conversations. In my experience the most fun, most good-doing conversations are the kind in which the participants not only learn about themselves and each other, but actually become themselves in the process. Those are the kinds of conversations I love.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

You may be considering revamping your website by migrating it to a new system or creating a brand new site from scratch. Create a list of must-have and nice-to-have features for your website. This includes the cost of the CMS itself, plus the expense of paying a developer to create or migrate your site and any ongoing maintenance fees.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Participants can respond to questions and add their thoughts and we can see each other’s faces. Here are five guidelines I’ve created after learning from experiences over the past year: 1) Design the technology experience with the lowest barrier to entry. Ask a lot of questions beforehand to understand technology comfort.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. Using a virtual event platform like Accelevents means you can create a virtual cocktail lounge and host a little party/networking event. The more groups you create, the more accommodating you can be.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

Social media platforms (like Facebook) facilitate connection, allowing your nonprofit to spin an extensive web of support all across the globe. To effectively tap into the vast potential of your Facebook supporters, consider implementing these strategies: Create engaging content on Facebook. Create engaging content on Facebook.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. . Using a virtual event platform like Accelevents means you can create a virtual cocktail lounge and host a little party/networking event. . The more groups you create, the more accommodating you can be.

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