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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Up-to-date photos of constituent events and publications that illustrate the impact of your work are readily available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

Flickr Photo by TomtheJet. I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). I am excited for a return visit to Australia. May 13, 2013: Meeting with NZ Funders. Training Design'

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

If you have a few potential partners in mind, take a look at your constituent database and see if you have any connections that would be willing to facilitate an introduction. Veer away from stock photos and choose images of real people when possible. Courses Podcasts Webinars Papers Guides. Rely on your connections.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Following, Dr. Robert Ashcraft, ASU Lodestar Center's Executive Director, facilitated a conversation with Kat, Partner Jacky Alling from the Arizona Community Foundation and me, where we discussed the high impact philanthropy ecosystem in Arizona. See more photos from the event on our Facebook page. Blog Tags: Philanthropy Matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. 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. I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Photo by Aussiegal. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. The ultimate test of peer learning is to organize a course without the direction of an instructor. It resonated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This framework works like a charm, whether it is a one-hour webinar or 7 day intensive International training or college graduate course or year long peer learning program. Recently, I was on a call with colleagues to plan our NTC session on training , and co-presenter Cindy Leonard said to me, “You are using ADDIE ! Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Photo by Gary Clark. Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2012

On May 24, I had the pleasure of facilitating our first webinar in our Microsoft Tips and Tricks Series, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2010 Course. A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2007 Course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Photo by Teddy Llovet. Photo by Dkurpaptwa. Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers. Why am I excited about this project? There is an added benefit to learning communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them. One technique is to weave self-care into your workday .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The event is sponsored by Patagonia as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility program. I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. A photo posted by Native Fish Society (@nativefishsociety) on Sep 26, 2015 at 9:46am PDT.

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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 We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. And, of course, there’s an app to help you apply this skill.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 10, 2013

I decided to make a loan to Kiva.org , a nonprofit organization that facilitates regular people (like you and me) making micro-loans to entrepreneurs across the globe. I''ve made 14 loans over the past 6 years, and they''ve all been repaid 100%, except of course, my newest loans, which are in the process of either being funding, or repaid.

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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. ” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2012

A couple weekends ago I facilitated a 3-hour Tea, Cupcakes and Creative Bloggers workshop at Teahouse Studio. You can see more photos and reflections from the workshop on the blog Not Merely Living and on Room of Her Own. P.S. The Juicy Blogging E-Course starts Wednesday, Jan. It was so much fun, I want to teach it again soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Advanced preparation is important. Design for Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. Here’s what I discovered: Genuine. Specialization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. Who will facilitate? And of course, how will translate all this into a succinct description that participants will immediately understand if it matches their needs? You just lump a bunch of speakers together and hobble together some content.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

Members can easily navigate a directory full of names, relevant details, and even photos. . Many associations will invest in learning management systems (LMS) to offer educational courses, either online or in-person. . An online space facilitates member engagement and improves the overall experience. This allows members to: .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. If over the course of four whole weeks, you are still writing posts (even if they are just text files or emails to each other) then you know you have the stamina to get started. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

I’ve captured some good notes, tweets, photos, and shared resources for each session, but here I wanted to dive into a few interesting ideas that bubbled up. Wouldn’t those be better first steps toward facilitating effective group learning? Mini-Workshop: Content Curation for Professional Learning. Organizational Amnesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

This, of course, requires having staffing guidelines for participation. The culture chapter also talks about the importance of launching pilots and failing informatively (one of my favorite topics and looking forward to the plenary session I’ll be facilitating about this topic at NTEN’s NTC next week).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. I found this book invaluable as an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies when teaching graduate courses.

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2010

Flickr photo by Giorgio Montersino You probably already know many of the advantages of working virtually: no commute (saving money, time, and the environment), fewer office space requirements, improved morale, or maybe even an office on the beach. and we hope you takeadvantage !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Photo by Aaron Schmidt. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. Yet foundation staff charged with organizational learning responsibilities are still charting a new course in our field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

Photo by Ceclcia Aros. There is much excitement and interest in measuring/tracking/using data in real time to shift course on emergent, collaborative, and innovative efforts. Also, how we facilitate our networks and sharing control to solve complex problems. “ And, of course, please add yours.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

A good way to facilitate an in-kind donation campaign virtually is to take advantage of your online tools and make an eCommerce page with a list of needed products. These “Family Meetings” are a great way to not only keep supporters engaged, but also to facilitate them meeting other supporters they don’t know. Peer-to-peer platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

And of course, we’d have fun while we did all of these things. Pre-assessment gathers a sense of participants’ current knowledge and skill so that facilitators can tailor training designs to “meet participants where they are.”. For ETR, that meant music, games, photos with colleagues and so much more. There would be follow-up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Photo by Oblivion 9999. Last year, Nathanial Whittemore facilitated an online discussion by asking bloggers to answer the question: " What is the one thing you need to know before you donate to charity? " This year the answer to the question isn't overhead ratios and executive salaries. .

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