Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Designing the meeting so it is effective and encourages team-building can be tricky. How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. The planners of this event offered some valuable lessons for any organization on how to design effective and engaging retreats.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2014

All this summer weve been introducing you to the facilitators who will make the three tracks so memorable. Lisa is an internationally renowned facilitator and educator known for her use of Open Space Technology and other participant-driven dialogic and interactive methods for engaging deeper reflection, learning, and interchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Host interactive events: Consider organizing interactive events where participants need to work together to solve a puzzle or mystery. Or try additional experiential events like interactive workshops, virtual reality experiences, or access to behind-the-scenes activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” They also had a chance to interact with peers with different styles to learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. 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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

There are number of reasons we feel exhausted from zoom meetings as Jeremy Bailenson, Virtual Human Interaction Lab points out. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. Designing Zoom Breakout Room Activities .

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

For instance, you could create personas based on how individuals interact with your mission, whether as volunteers, donors, or beneficiaries. Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! Instructional Design. Peer Learning Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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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. Donations are the most important example when it comes to securing support, but your website’s navigation and design play key roles, too. Let’s get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Optimizing your healthcare organization or hospital’s website design ensures patients and community members can find the information they need quickly. A professionally designed website can help establish your organization as a reputable, trustworthy institution. Make your donation and volunteer opportunities easy to find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To ensure that your event goes smoothly and encourages as much support from attendees as possible, don’t forget to plan for your auction’s stage design. . What is event stage design? According to Spacehuntr’s Ultimate Guide to Event Stage Design , it is the strategic optimization of a venue through the addition of physical objects. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. Some Reflections. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I was in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-day workshop is designed for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Justice Leaders, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Facilitator bits. You did great. Always start and end with something creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Rob Cottingham.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. Susan Tenby (@suzboop) March 5, 2015.

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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. Organizations are complex systems that interact constantly and significantly with a host of other equally complex systems. It’s in your job description. It takes a village.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

I am very grateful to Valerio Melandri who is the director of the festival for inviting me to participate as well as facilitate a maser class on modern wellbeing based on my book. Now to recap some thoughts about what we presented and insights generated upon reflection. From IDEO, it is a moment for design thinking and innovation. “A

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Personal interactions. At an in-person event, attendees can easily interact with one another and socialize during these breaks, keeping them engaged. Not only will attendees be able to interact with one another, but they’ll also be able to connect with members of your nonprofit’s staff and witness the impact of your story firsthand.

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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

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. Program Design. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

From tracking conversations and donations to event registrations, you can note every interaction you have with a supporter in your nonprofit CRM. are specifically designed to help nonprofits retain more donors. Design and save direct mail communication documents like solicitations and acknowledgments. Engaging emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. When learners enter the room, I ask them to reflect on their “burning question” or why did they want to take this workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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