Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Innovation Facilitation Techniques.

Training 50

Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Hike during staff retreat.

Culture 125

Culture Activities Active Activism 125

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. Test and evaluate as you move ahead.”

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll also be attending Penguin Day. There are also lots of fun social events, like NTCBeer. I will be taking my dream workshop – a workshop on methods for facilitating innovation using human-centered design principles from the masters at Luma Institute. More about the session here. LUMA Institute: March 19-20th.

Conference 113

Conference San Diego New York City Social Media 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way. by Eric Jensen. by Jane Bozarth.

Training 114

Training Train Technology Instructional Design 114

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. Support a fun icebreake r. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made.

Poll 50

Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Evaluate your volunteer program. Facilitate a positive experience by planning breaks during longer opportunities and offering water and snacks to help maintain high energy. Because of your support, we were able to raise $10,000 for local elementary schools and host a safe, fun event for the community.” Train volunteers.

Volunteer 89

Volunteer Program Roles Training 89

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. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. This year I facilitated several labs, including one for the Brainerd Foundation to rethink 21 st Century Advocacy. How about you?

Iowa 50

Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

Reflection 50

Reflection Network Mexico South America 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

Knowledge 100

Knowledge Goal Share Giving 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? Of course, there were some prizes involved!).

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

And that can be fun too! For example, on the Packard Foundation OE wiki , which started as a “see through filing cabinet&# has moved into engaging with nonprofit consultants and evaluation geeks about the prelminary findings of its evaluation of nonprofit consulting practice.

Wiki 96

Wiki Public Learning Wikispaces 96

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. Here’s a fun, fast, and free leadership quiz you can take: [link] Not everyone is a born leader. Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions.

Skills 119

Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. These activities are fun, and they promote an empathetic point of view.

Virtual 221

Virtual Work Skills Culture 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The debriefing prompted a wide range of insights, particularly how to facilitate a training when you have individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

Facilitation 109

Facilitation Virtual Effective Practice 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook. Develop Your Eye: The more you shoot and evaluate your work, the better your eye will become. Experiment.

Camera 101

Camera Photography Content Strategy 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. And we were looking forward to having fun on social media celebrating giving during the fifth annual Give to the Max Day.

Social Media 118

Social Media Media Minnesota Social 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue.

Measure 105

Measure Social Media Media Map 105

Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

We’ve created fun features to gamify the fundraising experience. This encourages active engagement because it facilitates a friendly, competitive environment. This way, each individual’s network of family and friends can see exactly why your campaign matters to the volunteer. Social integrations to spread awareness.

Platform 98

Platform Fundraising Nonprofit Gift 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. .

Social Media 97

Social Media Strategy Communication Remix 97

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event. The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. How to Measure Success. Highlight Value and Impact.

Virtual 105

Virtual Professional Marketing Fundraising 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. And that can be fun too! Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator. I love the way they've made fun for the capture team to document the conference and their evaluation questionnaire.

Public 94

Public Learning Conference Social 94

Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

This session will describe sometimes painful, but often rewarding process to do a better job of collecting, analyzing and acting on data, for use in both strategic planning and evaluation. Did we mention fun? Disrupting the Nonprofit Sector Friday, March 13th, 10:30 AM. million organizations. Happy Hours and dancing start here!

Storyboard 75

Storyboard NTC Advocacy Social Media 75

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s hard to describe, but man it was fun to play. And most importantly, not being afraid to have fun. He has also worked for over a decade with museums to innovate visitor-facing experiences through iterative design, with a particular focus on prototyping and evaluating cutting-edge visitor-facing experiences. How about you?

Game 55

Game Museum Design Digital 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

However, there was also a plea not to make evaluation painful, collecting huges amount of data and not using it to improve a program. 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.

Social 88

Social Kiva Artist Sample 88

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Take the time to assess your operations and evaluate any gaps that volunteer work could fill. You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members.

Volunteer 98

Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. This concept was acted out by artists that brought the game to life in a very funny way and it prompted some fun (non-scarcity mindset) thinking. And, that’s an great way for change, from the bottom up.

Nonprofit 50

Nonprofit Culture Practice Policy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. And then the fun really started! The “game show” conceit made it all more fun. In fact, just last month, I took it to India. They spent the next 24 hours refining the pitch.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Remix Social 94

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The leadership environment Leaders (whether on a team, in a department or institution-wide) have to be open to taking risks, trying new things, evaluating and learning from failures. The idea environment Processes can get in the way of or can facilitate creativity. institutional change design guestpost'

Place 52

Place Museum Environment Problem 52

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. Anyway, you already asked yourself what roles were needed when you did your strategic evaluation, right? Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing! Further reading: http :// www.

Knowledge 86

Knowledge Share Network Community 86

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Effective Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework, from Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy), provides a framework to help nonprofits plan, conduct, and evaluate their efforts at knowledge transfer and exchange. Evaluation. logs and evaluation forms â?? Have Fun â?¢

Knowledge 60

Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. Evaluate and select an enterprise solution. Approach it carefully, but remember to also have fun. This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants). I had sooo much fun creating. I blogged about the content last week. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

Channel 87

Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It invites its super fans to join a private Facebook group, with useful information and a facilitated discussion. She has created a community around making fitness fun and also a little bit crazy. Figure out what actually happens after you send out an email, and evaluate your approach based on that. Connect with Millennials.

Support 36

Support Netsquared Influence DC 36

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. It’s fun, I promise!). Now you’re ready to start evaluating your options for providers.

Project 98

Project Tech Guide Phase 98