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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Training & Facilitation: I have been facilitating online meetings for many years and when the pandemic hit, I was very busy teaching these techniques to nonprofits around the world. My Three Themes: Resilience: This theme relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Flickr As Mechanism To Reconnect With Professional Colleagues

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was teaching Web1.0 These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed? Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. We worked with a social scientist studying the power of being able to walk away from an uncooperative environment to develop Experimonth: Freeloader , a public-goods game where players decide whether to invest in their group or freeload.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. So every time I present or teach, I like to be really clear about what we will be talking about, what the outcomes for the session are. Who are we?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix.

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The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. I’ll be co-teaching with Mary Joyce, Jessica Dheere and Mohamad Najem and working with an amazing group of people from six Arab countries. When you have a group of people working together in a network-culture and are facile with the tools, it can be unstoppable.

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