Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Spectragram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. By the end of the day, she was able to summarize ideas and takeaways that we discussed.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

BoardEffect states that an annual board self-assessment may help the board prevent problems leading to liability issues and that the results of an assessment can highlight topics for future board discussion and consideration. Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 11, 2024

Create and manage different volunteer groups To encourage and facilitate conversation between your member volunteers, use your online community platform to create different groups. Have a staff member ready to moderate discussion and promote the start of new conversations.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

Meeting new colleagues is easier when someone facilitates introductions. Create a casual atmosphere that makes it easy for people to feel comfortable discussing what they don’t know and asking about what they don’t understand. Organize panel discussions featuring the Finance Committee. Financial literacy workshops.

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John Kenyon

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Activities: Facilitating learning for the board, management and staff 2. Activities: Providing examples of how nonprofits use these tools, facilitating discussions on how your organization is already using them and might use them in the future 3. They generate content by using works without permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

With the introduction of culture to a digital environment, we saw interpersonal dynamics in a new light.orgCommunity , our professional development and networking organization, was thrilled to host two in-person events that brought people together to explore those themes and discuss significant issues that emerged from our post-pandemic experience.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. The primary roles are idea generators and facilitators. Give everybody a turn.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s a nice challenge to figure out how to discuss change in a way that includes the goals of the person you are trying to influence. They are also good facilitators. Aligning all stakeholders can be a complicated game of mental chess. Associations have the advantage of a built-in community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

The platform streamlines important processes like onboarding, voting, and creating agendas, so you’ll have more time to discuss the issues that really matter. It facilitates straightforward communication between board members, helps you keep documents organized, and more, similar to a traditional board books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We used sticky notes and the mandala template. David modeled a full group discussion to gather up all the ideas – using a template that used the basic flows of facilitation – attention, energy, information, and operations. Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect – be thinking about what’s next.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format. Groups discussed the same question simultaneously. The World Café is a strategy designed to deeply explore a series of topical questions.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Pew Research ) Here are some of the discussion points from the webinar, which was really more of a discussion. Most associations said not yet, but after the webinar, they are planning to start discussions with their Boards and staff. The date is still TBD, but we’re aiming for early summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Then you are ready to tackle confirming the topic before combustion, which is the discussion and work around meaning-making and decisions. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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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

MARCH 9, 2011

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein who will provide live graphic facilitation of this highly interactive and fun panel. Jonny Goldstein will be our graphic facilitator and capture the conversation – these images will be shared on Twitter with NGOs around the world. I'll moderating Oprah style dressed in Hajja.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

But what happens when a more niche session topic is ready for discussion amongst an even smaller group of interested attendees? We now provide you with our new breakout room feature within Workshops to facilitate concentrated conversations. Breakout sessions allow unlimited attendees and Workshop sessions allow up to 250 attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed?

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Leda Muller, the Founder/CEO of Pocket Security, facilitates a live discussion with nonprofits about their cybersecurity posture. The post Cyber Security 101 for Nonprofits – Live Q&A appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Find the Bot’s Voice Consider which topics people are more comfortable discussing with a machine and which are better suited to a human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . Or you could do a verbal brainstorm discussion building on each others ideas and using a google document to take notes.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2023

orgCommunity event featured interactive conversations led by engaging speakers , with decades of leadership experience in the association sphere. We spent our time in round table discussion with association leadership professionals , learning and sharing our own experiences. Why does your association do what it does? Partnerships.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2022

I write a LOT about the role of the fundraiser as “ philanthropy facilitator.” Philanthropy facilitators don’t do the work for donors, but with them — standing by their side along the journey. Except it’s not “fundraising” so much as what I like to call “ philanthropy facilitation.”. The “Wiseman.”

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

While this list is great for starting the discussion, for a more detailed audit and analysis, enlist the support of Media Cause MarTech experts. Do we have an online platform to collect donations? Are we doing anything to follow up with those donors? Where do we go to learn about our website’s performance?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. Dot voting is a visual way to see where the interest is and generate a robust discussion about the options. Step 3: Discuss the results. Review the the results.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

This curated track features members of Blackbaud’s K–12 Executive Advisory Board and our internal experts discussing how technology in schools has evolved, new best practices, and fresh ideas. But how do you unlock this power without knowing how to write code? Where do you start?

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you find yourself putting a meeting on the books purely to share information rather than to discuss something, gather input, and/or make decisions, send an email instead. One way to accomplish this is to try a simple round-robin discussion, answering questions like, “What’s something you want to be sure we address today?”

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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. When connecting with board members , consider how to persuade them that philanthropy facilitation is everyone’s job. It’s in your job description. It takes a village.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

But, more specifically, project managers juggle various responsibilities and wear a multitude of hats—organizer, leader, motivator, facilitator, liaison, and driver—to ensure success. The broad answer is project managers manage projects. Projects have many components, such as team members, budget, timeframes, activities, tasks, and more.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

At the Institute, 9 Community Colleges from Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina gathered to discuss engaging stakeholders around success for all community college students. Ann Duffy, Facilitator, Education First. Phil Gonring of Education First, facilitating the Davidson County Community College team at the PBF Institute.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 5, 2021

They’ll discuss member engagement trends and how modern technology can make this shift easier. Then, Sherry Budziak,orgCommunity , will facilitate a discussion with panelists on hot topics in association technology, including artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, ecommerce, marketing automation, and personalization.

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