Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

After facilitating a panel at the Innogive Conference on integrating mobile into multi-channel nonprofit campaigns , I headed to a special event hosted by Google to celebrate the launch of Google for Nonprofits. The event featured a panel discussion of use cases by nonprofits, followed by product demos. Details are here.

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For example, when discussing what to order at a Japanese restaurant, your friends could share visuals that would help you feel more confident about ordering the “Sukiyaki”. We fine-tuned a large language model to proactively suggest relevant visuals in open-vocabulary conversations using a dataset we curated for this purpose.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

But it is particularly valuable when people don’t have access to behavioral cues, like body language, that are plentiful in face-to-face situations. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. Discussions involving feelings can be challenging. During the pandemic, quiet quitting became a thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. I incorporate energizers into webinars (see slide 22) and virtual meetings.

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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 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring. One thing I discovered was Meedan’s “ Transbrowser &# that allows you to plug in a URL in one language and translate it to another. Meedan , an implementation partner, is responsible for designing and implementing the online learning community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Our goal was to draw on the collective wisdom in the room to discuss emerging solutions and strategies to the shared challenges of this new approach to social change.

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JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Use clear language and large, easy to read fonts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

From language and culture differences to the need to tailor offerings for a Japanese audience, many early-stage tech companies write off Japan as impossible or too difficult to break into, even if the country is inevitably part of their growth and expansion roadmap. But the barriers to entry are high. Here’s what we learned along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The second session used a conferencing software that allowed the whole group to break into small group discussions on the phone line. Facilitating Virtual Small Groups: The webinar software has the ability for participants to ask the instructor to come to their group if they have question.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. At least, not because of Bookshare!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 5th, here’s a few of the topics we’ll be discussing: Taking Risks with Networks. How and when to catalyze networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. When you’re live and in the room, you can observe body language and adjust accordingly. The body language code was as follows: ! The other challenge is the lack of feedback from the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Talking and hearing (Auditory). Development.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” MentalHappy’s approach to solving this problem is to develop low-cost peer support groups on its app, with qualified professionals facilitating each group. Currently, the app is operating in the United States, but Blue plans to explore other countries and languages in the future. ” Image Credits: MentalHappy.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

Share requirements and expectations for participation, time, and any technical skills needed, including internet access, device, and language requirements. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a half-day “Digital Strategies&# seminar with Vince Ford, Director of Digital Media from the New York Philharmonic and leading a peer session for major orchestra marketing staff and youth orchestra executive directors with Makala Johnson who does Social Media for the Mayo Clinic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. Lack of shared definitions and shared language. The conclusion discusses the need for a more vibrant, networked entities working in concert to “build the capacity of capacity builders” to avoid repeating mistakes made in isolation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

The emergence of purpose-built technologies to facilitate regulator oversight has, over the past few years, garnered its own moniker of supervisory technology, or suptech. Both the World Bank and BIS have offered definitions that provide useful outlines for this discussion. But what exactly is suptech? Regulatory reporting.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

The initiative has three parts: providing mental health training to Cloud9 players, coaches, and staff; airing a Twitch series focused on increasing awareness of mental health; and educating community moderators so they can facilitate positive discussions on mental health topics. The multiyear initiative is called Presence of Mind.

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JULY 5, 2023

A big pro of using the same tool is having shared language. To get on the same page, consider using virtual-friendly activities like The Center for Creative Leadership’s 10 Steps for Establishing Team Norms , which outlines a straightforward activity that can be facilitated remotely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders. Tell us about GuideStar’s role in helping NGOs get their messages to their audience and how does WhatsApp facilitate this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Making accommodations comes down to respectful language and accommodations that require observing and checking in with participants. Respectful language is important. However, the term “Walking Meetings,” is ableist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Our goal for BlockFi has always been for it to facilitate cryptocurrencies going mainstream – and each day provides more evidence that is exactly what is occurring,” said Marquez, who serves as the company’s SVP of operations. Over the past week, BlockFi was making headlines for other reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

This was followed by a panel discussion and questions from the audience. There is something beneath the language of "what works" that can kill innovation. Premal talked about the need for creating magic for the users and building in workflow software that was facilitated relationship building through the ladder of engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

” And this week, some attendees at the GEO conference were treated to Katherine Fulton of Monitor Institute’s discussion of networks and their relationship to technology. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities.

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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.” ” So I set up a series of photos depicting different body language and different situations. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

I've been very busy this week taking a fantastic online workshop on online facilitation from Nancy White at Full Circle. So, here's a podcast of my first real-time conversation with Wanna, who proceeded to give me a Khmer Language lesson! I noticed one of the Cambodian bloggers, Wanna , had logged on to Yahoo IM. So, I pinged him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. 1) Everybody is People.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 2, 2024

This discussion is focused on structured and tidy tabular datasets (see Tidy Data | Journal of Statistical Software ), distinguishing data cleaning from broader data quality concerns that include data governance, lineage, cataloguing, drift, and more. or Large Language Models as Data Preprocessors ).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

How can we facilitate digital experiences that empower more people to discover, engage, and contribute to the narratives and realities of race in America? Simmons, the talks named in her honor feature discussions with African American innovators in art, business, science, literature, medicine, social justice, technology, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. In this entertaining video of the keynote, they explained these complicated technologies in simple, easy to understand language. Hat Tip to Tal Frankfurt). ?.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Very general and vague words can generate very vague responses and language. You can also learn about how Candid plans to leverage AI to enhance data organization, streamline search processes, and facilitate intelligent funding connections. What you get out: Always validate content generated by AI at every level. Is it accurate?

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