Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. Let’s start with a definition first. The New Social Economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network. I created these for Twitter , Facebook Fan Pages , and Listening. .

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Nonprofits with well-designed, highly functional websites will have a definite advantage when it comes to reaching, engaging, and retaining more donors in years to come. As your website grows and evolves, make sure your navigation bar still accurately reflects its structure. Make full use of your blog content. Let’s get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. The downside to virtual presenting is that you don’t get to see your friends face-to-face !

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. Creating clear definitions of key terms pertaining to data and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The configuration of the physical space definitely enhances learning. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. My own definition is to trade one set of dilemmas for a better set. Sometimes we definitively solve our fundraising dilemmas, but more commonly we trade them for better ones. And that’s fine. Do you have a fundraising plan?

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. And that definitely includes all your staff. When connecting with board members , consider how to persuade them that philanthropy facilitation is everyone’s job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The product is a diagram or a series of diagrams like the one above for a large nonprofit facilitated by Steve Heye that outlines the steps. Owyang’s post points to some terrific examples including a diagram from Socialfish helped facilitate for ASCE and the class diagram from the Airforce. How did you develop it?

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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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. The questions: What do you hope to learn today? What’s the biggest challenge related to networks and leadership?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been designing curriculum and materials and facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. It’s a pilot project supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

Yesterday, I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens. We started with mindfulness from Chris Block, improvisation from David Havens , and Heather and I co-facilitated a session on networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2017

Note from Beth: I recently facilitated a Happy Healthy Nonprofit workshop on bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. Her CEO recently wrote a post reflecting on their wellness efforts on the organization’s blog and she agreed generously to republish this post as a guest post. Photographic Evidence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it. The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert. Meaning Making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. One might think that it would be difficult to sustain a truly interactive experience, but the way Ethan and Rebecca facilitated - it was an intense day-long conversation. I vlogged it here: Download cultureshock.wmv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. Here’s what I learned: Definition: A culture of continuous improvement. They have a created a safe space for staff and program participants and other stakeholders to give feedback, reflect, ask questions, and think creatively about solutions.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

If we think about this in terms of individuals, self-care, by definition, runs deeper than external or physical pampering. Much of what we focus on in Retrospectives tends to be about outcomes or processes, which are completely valid things to reflect on. Wellness and happiness have to be nurtured and cultivated from within.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. Flickr Image – ImageGroup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Not great as many of reflected. Collective Capital (@cocapimprov) April 6, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. But the short definition is: "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

If your own site isn’t pulling its weight in our new virtual fundraising environment, it’s definitely time to make a few updates. If that’s the case, your event calendar’s content should definitely be updated to reflect that. With CTAs, you can help to facilitate that user’s initial giving journey. Ready to begin?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Those links are to definitions!) I think that my reflections about Tweetcamp are an excellent fit to answer this question! The organizers decided to meld a bit of facilitation with complete open space organizing. This past Saturday, I participated in an experiment: Tweetcamp ! The combination of a Tweetup and a BarCamp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". But it is also important to understand that there are definitely challenges to be overcome as well.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

Practice institutional self-reflection. There are three key components of institutional self-reflection: where have we been, where are we now, and where do we want to be? Assess the current and short-term potential of your development program and apply those insights to create appropriate giving level definitions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

1 : Blogging Community/Community Blog - Basic Definitions This post was my reflection after taking a fabulous online workshop with Nancy White that included a link to Steve Shu's post and a question about "Can Community Blogs be facilitated?" It covers human, organizational, and technical points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Someone emailed me to complain that I didn't link to a definition of Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. 1) Already Doing It, Want To Do It Better: The first group know the definitions of the tools and understands how social media has changed the dynamics between audience and organization. Comfort Levels. Some advice from Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We wanted to end up with a group that reflects the diversity of our County across many strata: age, class, gender, ethnicity, geography, and profession. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings. We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. The visual design of your website should be bold and accurately reflect your organization’s brand or identity. It’s unfortunately easy to break a website, and a downed donation page is definitely something you should avoid. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. I definitely anticipate further modifications to both the online and on-site versions as we explore different ideas and gather feedback accordingly. at the Smithsonian 2.0 What are the objectives of the campaign?

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