Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2022

This culture can bring about the desired outcomes of staff, volunteers, and members who reflect the community, having a team possessing strong problem-solving skills, and leadership that embraces innovation. Appreciating diversity and creating a team that reflects the community in appearance and thoughts are only the first steps.

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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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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. To provide specific guidance, I attended the board meeting and presented an evaluation along with recommendations for how the group could lead more effectively.”. Clarify Roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. for my journal or my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” As the part of my monthly review, I reflect on my themes and habits to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

One of the ways to reduce handle this stress, is to flex your emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Emotional Intelligence is a flexible skill that can be readily acquired and practiced. 1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Being stuck in chronic performance can have a devastating impact on your skills, confidence, job, and personal life. No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.” Briceño : This depends on the situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been designing curriculum and materials and facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Emotional Intelligence is a flexible skill that can be readily acquired and practiced. Self-Management Skills. Inside Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you?

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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. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Then call on people, saying the next is A, followed by B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

The subject matter, of course, the effective use of digital and networks that is holistic and that incorporates on culture change, innovation, and collaboration skills. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. Funder misalignment on movement needs. Lack of platforms through which to network laterally.

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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. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? The questions: What do you hope to learn today? How do let go and allow for emergence?

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To effectively advance your cause and push your fundraising goals forward, your nonprofit needs a strong internal infrastructure and team. By keeping your mission on the top of their minds, you can utilize board members’ skills, enthusiasm and influence to improve your nonprofit as a whole. Let’s begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

So that’s why I do a lot of reading outside of my main discipline and think about how the concepts might apply to being an effective networked nonprofit.). Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Note: This guest post was published on the Packard Foundation OE Blog reflects what was learned from designing and delivering leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. Effective delivery of content and learning experiences takes both on and offline connection. Flickr Photo by Flower Factor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Can participants apply the skills?” There are two different methods to evaluate your training.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Coordinate efforts through a backbone support organization: Facilitate, convene, coordinate, mobilize. Moreover, the Church is diverse: racially, geographically, vocationally, socio-economically.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. You can facilitate donors’ participation by telling the story of their tangible impact.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

This kind of advisory committee might be crucial in making sure the programs your organization implements actually serve the community effectively. These questions should help you make sure you are recruiting people with the right skill sets who can represent experiences and voices that you may not have on your staff. Create structure.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. I was very interested in the way an event like this can effectively flip the standard model for brainstorming with outsiders; rather than each project leader paying individuals to come help work on their project, everyone paid to come and help each other. You did great. Always start and end with something creative.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. If we can be more intentional and disciplined in our experimentation, that's how we gain insights about effective social media use. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Lately, I've had the experience of running the game as a 3-hour workshop as part of a second day of peer learning workshops on Network Effectiveness. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Happy New Year !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Yet, we know that learning continuously in a complex world is critical because otherwise our skills are quickly outdated. Now to be honest, as an adjunct professor and someone who has facilitated and taught workshops for over 25 years, I used to think that long, intense courses was the only way to go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I can’t possibly read everything, but I am using content curation skills to pick out the best stuff to give more attention to. The latter requires a different type of attention and whole new set of information coping skills. 4.) Reflection: Reflection doesn’t have to be a huge amount of time to be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. I don’t think that tools alone can do it alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

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. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

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. 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 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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