Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. Group check-ins or icebreakers allow us to become more connected as humans as well as name, claim and move on from distractions and focus on the meeting at hand. As the facilitator you can model it with brevity – it should be no more than 30 seconds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. Confusion and conflict emerge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. Round Robin.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

This skill can be actively honed and developed in three parts: A model to give feedback on how they are impacted by behaviors, the clarity to ask for the change in behavior they need to see, and the capacity to hear and receive feedback as a gift and not an indictment. Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. To guide evaluation, there are several learning theories, including The Four Levels of Evaluation, also referred to as the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model , was created by Donald Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. 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

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. New power is behind some of the most impactful movements (and business models) of the decade. The Castle: Pairs old power values with an old power leadership model.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. What does this look like in practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The morning used the World Cafe technique. I first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Creating a Network Map. Small Group – Making Posters. Small Group – Making Posters.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

Remember when going that this is a group of fundraisers: Their job is to raise money. This is a great conference to learn from experts about smart earned-revenue models, and about how the CSR world at for-profit companies operates. . Create Good. Engage For Good. When : May 16-18, 2023. Where : Atlanta, GA. Website : [link].

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 23, 2021

For example, if you tell your audience ‘not to tell anyone’ and that they are part of a hand-picked group that will attend an exclusive event , chances are they will feel drawn to participate in that event and to tell people about it. . Create Scarcity in Live and Online Venues. Create a Waiting List or Pre-Order To Market Your Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I have also attended and facilitated meetings with a graphic recorder, most recently at the Nonprofit Technology Conference , and know the power of how “drawing on the wall” can help spark group insights and learning. Visual Meeting Workshop by David Sibbet and Rachel Smith - Based on Sibbet's book Visual Meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It isn’t your organization’s values, delivery model, or social impact. In the end, testing creates pathways for learning and evolution, making it the best risk mitigation tool in your arsenal. Using these techniques, you can not only broaden your donor pool but tailor your messages to build a community deeply invested in your work.

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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. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

To help with your donor data management planning, we have created a Donor Data Management Dictionary to help you make sense of all the data jargon as it applies to the nonprofit organization’s business needs. Is more data jargon giving you a headache? Data science – [DAY-tuh SAHY-uhns], nouns. Parse – [pahrs], verb.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. The podcast is called “Creating Community for Good Podcast.” – [Steven] [inaudible].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. I had a fairly large group and an excellent space to work in. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. I’ve been having this conversation with several groups lately, Network of Networked Funders and Network Weaving Sandbox , comprised of individual who are intentionally approaching their work with a network mindset. These can be done offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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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. The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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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. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis. Walking Meetings and Video Platforms. My presentation was about walking meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. Photo by Aussiegal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

It was great to have a co-trainer who knew the subject matter, fluent in English, and who understood group facilitation skills and training approaches. This was very helpful because traditional translation does not help you read the group or adjust on the spot. We came up with some really practical and useful models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). That’s where a lot of trainers fall short. Talking and hearing (Auditory). Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

They have a different approach and outlook on life than previous generations, as such traditional marketing and fundraising techniques will be less effective. Nonprofits must stay on top of social media trends and create engaging experiences for millennials in order to capture their loyalty. PEW, 2010). Kylander, 2012).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

They have a different approach and outlook on life than previous generations, as such traditional marketing and fundraising techniques will be less effective. Nonprofits must stay on top of social media trends and create engaging experiences for millennials in order to capture their loyalty. PEW, 2010). Kylander, 2012).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Collective intelligence refers to the outcomes generated by pooling knowledge from diverse groups, using it to research and debate and then refining the resulting understanding into useful and actionable information. A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

When you intentionally build your professional network in the right way, you create a circle of individuals who are all rooting for your success and happy to help you. The people in your inner circle should also model positive behaviors, because if those around you are enthusiastic, authentic, and generous, you will be, too.

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