Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Mary Joyce leads a session on digital activism using the Story of Electronics. Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I was lucky enough to be working with the digital strategy coordinator, Maria Rubi , from the Mexico office. She is not only fluent in English (and four other languages in addition to her native Spanish), she is also an excellent trainer and facilitator. The workshop was a tango dance between English and Spanish — and it worked!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. The in-country team participated as co-trainers and facilitators served as our eyes and ears when there were small group exercises to help keep everyone stay on task and help me read the room.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. The Intersector Toolkit provides frameworks that reflect phases of the relationship and support conceptual design, monitoring program elements, and ongoing measurement of milestones or goals. Layer two begins with the implementation process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Introduction to the series from Computer and Text Neck Stretching Exercises by Desk Yogi. This video by Dr. Baxter Bell offers some exercises to help relieve and prevent neck pain. Since the pandemic started and the shift to all virtual, I have found myself sitting in front of a screen for longer stretches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

More recent books on these methods include Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo and Visual Meetings by David Sibbet (I took David Sibbet’s workshop on visual meeting facilitation and wrote up some reflections here.). Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

BuJo was designed by Ryder Carroll, a digital product designer. The main features of BuJo are: Analog journaling: writing in your hand writing, in a paper notebook (even though there are digital versions too). Migration: a way to reschedule tasks following reflection and a reassessment of them. Reduce over-planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I used this a variety of ways: whiteboard interactive lecture and brainstorm; sticky note exercise; and student work space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other. Needless to say, I learned a lot!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2017

But there was also another sign on the wall that described their Quarter 3 theme word “Mindfulness” and a reflective question, “What behaviors and processes can we establish to engender more mindfulness and presence in our interactions.” Many organizations do that. This is a common challenge for many nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. There is also an self-assessment exercise. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

She immediately had us moving around and introducing ourselves to new people, reflecting on our experience in both personal and professional networks. Each table was called the “Home Team” and after the various exercises we came back to home team to process and reflect. ” Video streaming by Ustream.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JULY 25, 2020

I’m currently running an entire digital fundraising program for a client and every week I’m challenged to make a lot of decisions that impact their success. Here are two examples to show you what I’m talking about: In our digital fundraising program, what should we do more of? Feel free to leave questions or reflections there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

For example, our recent Digital Evolution Study found that while 50 percent of members say they are always on their smartphones and 82 percent say technology has made them more efficient, only 30 percent of members describe their organization’s overall tech use as excellent. The Digital Evolution Study shows members value technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

He makes the analogy that the process of mining the data for insights is akin to anthropology and that the team should be "digital anthropologists." Nonetheless, the reflection questions are very valuable and important to incorporate in your strategy planning and reflection process. going beyond clicks and impressions)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We both had a front row seat at start of the Web Industry (back then we called it “New Media”), helping to shape how people use new digital technologies. We’re coming together to tell our own stories and the stories of nonprofit organizations around wellness in the workplace in the Digital Age. Stress reduction techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Mindful online is defined as not just going into auto pilot to update your FB status or scan your Twitter stream but to consciously think about all aspects of your digital actions. These can wetware ( training our minds ) or software/hardware as the Pang advocates.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Maybe internal cultural challenges need everyone’s attention, or industry dynamics are demanding a faster timetable for a digital transformation. How do you make time for yourself so you can reflect beyond the demands and pressures of today to peer over the horizon? These are the sprawling “How are we going to do this?”

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. These touches will only increase the drive to accomplish the entirety of the learning exercise, as well as aid in. Also, please try not to make them boring.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Large data platforms, especially those that make donations of products and services, are putting high-powered software into nonprofits’ hands at a fraction of the cost that would ordinarily reflect on commercial customers. This is genuinely a good thing. “Innovation” is a heady word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. How do you de-clutter your professional online network? Do you have an intentional connection policy? … Read More Professional Networking'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 12, 2016

Not only do you reap the physical benefits of exercise —increased endorphins and reduced levels of stress hormones, but you get the bonus of the feel good powers of philanthropy. The study offered some real food for thought as to how we can continue to engage the millennial generation through exercise. Giving makes us feel good.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Debriefing Giving Tuesday: Why It Matters Post-campaign analysis is not just a retrospective exercise; it’s a forward-looking approach to refine your nonprofit’s fundraising tactics. Importance of Digital Outreach : Effective use of social media, email marketing , and online platforms played a crucial role in successful campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

Ahead of time,participants were asked to share a screen capture of their most engaging or best performing content on social channels and include some reflections based on sharing the metrics against goals. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. .” All of them did it in less than the half time provided.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore. That, however, WILL not be reflected in our webstats for a while, if at all. That dog won’t hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). Participants were challenged with an active listening exercise while two peers gave presentations on their work with data. One issue would be highlighted every month. Team 2: “Heart vs. Head.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Armano describes this as digital anthropologists sifting through qualitative data and metrics to reap insights. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. Are you allowing your teams to create "pilots" prior to scrutinizing them through traditional ROI exercises? Conclusion.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Moveable Type, like its predecessor, Listening Post (now touring international art and science museums), is an exercise in harnessing and repackaging data as art. And while the installation is digital (560 fluorescent displays backed by individual tiny speakers), the effect, when multiplied across a large space, is intensely physical.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s a hard task, but is a great exercise to try. It’s also important to have diverse perspectives and backgrounds represented on the board to ensure that the nonprofit’s work is reflective of the community it serves. ’ Try outlining this core mission in twenty-five words. Be as specific as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning course on practical networked leadership skills with a group of community foundation leaders for the Knight Digital Media Center and part of the “practice” is having conversations and sharing thought provoking ideas with our professional networks via social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I used to joke that my brain has evolved because I've been doing it for so long - that I've been exercising my brain's synthesis muscle for many years. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? I've been reading Don Tapscott's " Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World."

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