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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! I had asked my contact whether participants were comfortable using Zoom with Google Docs. I am a member of the Technology of Participation network of facilitators. Reading these comments, I felt terrible.

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The Advantages Of Online Strategic Planning

fusionSpan

Pacing also allows the strategic planning committee or other leadership groups to do refinement between the large group planning sessions. A well facilitated online strategic planning process has the opportunity to be the opposite of what is on the list above. Conversations meander in unconnected directions.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Encourage brainstorming.

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Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Storytelling Recap

Tech Soup

A production grid is easy to produce in a collaborative tool like Google Docs and is easily shared via email or file sharing. The site has social media integration to better facilitate sharing and collaboration. Building a Team. Borman's experience has taught her that team building is important to collaborative storytelling.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

How’s it going, doc? It may be that, for some organizations, a really large strategic planning process would include hiring an outside facilitator, doing a. Hiring an outside facilitator, spending six to nine months, and, you know, reviewing all of your programs. You doing okay? . Dr. Ross: Oh, thank you. So if you are.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. This is Giving Docs, which the ACLU is using to let people just come on here and click and leave their legacy in very simple steps. And when push comes to shove, most people do really wonder what their legacy is going to be.

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