Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot!

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out. See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). You can customize how many participants per room.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

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. In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes.

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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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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

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. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

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. Leadership training on communications styles.

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Culture Activities Activism Active 125

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

According to Exponent Philanthropy’s 2022 Foundation Operations and Management Report , sixty percent of our members collaborate with other funders. Similarly, many collaborate to engage experts to provide education and training for foundation board and staff. 5) Addressing a Particular Need or Gap .

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Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Social Media Training Train Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

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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Facilitation Tips Camera Nonprofit 180

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. The Facebook daily check-ins in-between our calls are to provide support and facilitate discussion.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. Recently, I read about an exercise that you can do to intentionally improve the experience for all.

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Virtual Ukraine Exercise Poland 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Advocates have more partners or better partners, more or better relationships with reporters, and more or better policymaker relationships. Training Design. This type of active exercise gets people moving, serves as an icebreaker, and also is an efficient way for the group to share a lot of useful practical learnings.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. ” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions.

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Social Media Training Train Network 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free.

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Analytics Google Digital Free 106

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

And you’re far from the only one; studies report that 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work. Do you schedule one-on-one meetings with your direct reports? Recruiting and onboarding new employees is far more costly than retaining existing trained employees. Leadership style. Increased retention.

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Ideas Practice Leadership Roles 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Staff retreats” can mean all sorts of things: hours-long strategic planning sessions, reviewing annual reports and budgets, feedback sessions where staff are encouraged to ask questions of leadership but no one speaks up because everyone is in the same room. Now, our staff retreat was not actually intended as a skill building training.

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Design Lesson Effective Life 90

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

We also ended the entire event with one of my favorite exercises, the Exquisite Corpse game, in which participants co-created comics of their craziest museum dreams. Click any link above to see the video from the initial pitch and final report from each group. Facilitator bits. You did great.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Only 31% of the working population reported feeling engaged in their employment. 92% of CEOs say their organization is empathetic, while only 72% of employees report they work for empathetic employers. 92% of CEOs say their organization is empathetic, while only 72% of employees report they work for empathetic employers.

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Virtual Work Skills Culture 221

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation.

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Report Measure Process Impact 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Andrea gave an awesome presentation with some great frameworks and tips on planning and facilitating productive meetings to avoid death by meeting. She started off with some statistics that the average professional attends 13.7 … Read More Organizational Culture Training Design Walking'

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Work Culture Classroom Product 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

In our 2020 Navigating the Unknown Report , we found that over 50% of nonprofits pivoted to virtual events last year. Several even reported that virtual events helped them reach new donors and raise more donations than their previous in-person events did! Are you ready to take your virtual fundraising to the next level?

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Virtual Ideas Guide Fundraising 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. These skills are: self-management and attention training. These skills are: self-management and attention training.

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Product Nonprofit Attention Skills 50

BoardAssist

MARCH 1, 2016

Tip: Try this mingle exercise with your board — or simply go around the table and ask people to share their stories. Make committee reports only two minutes each. Give your board chair training in meeting facilitation. Help Them Understand Where the Money is Going. Data is a lovely thing. Yes, we’ve all been there!

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Tips PowerPoint Classroom Attitude 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. During the two-hour session, we did a brainstorming exercise that I learned from Carol Lloyd, author of Creating a Life Worth Living.

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Generation Student Exercise Alternative 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. If you had the first group work on the simulation exercise, they'd be uncomfortable. This saved a lot of time during the report out on reflections and learning.

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Louisville Reflection Conference Game 50

Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Custom reports or other information delivery mechanisms. Often not, but the exercise of trying to do so is often worth the effort. Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported.

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Build API Evaluation Exercise 32

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The Playbook features a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofit staff to apply the ideas and frameworks. In between meetings, experiment with having a staff person from your marketing team attend other department meetings monthly and report back.

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Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. The report out was amazing. What worked? What didn't?

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Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Is the goal to cut down the staff hours it takes to run reports? Reduction of time spent on grant reports. Appeal to the organization’s goal.

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Project Tech Guide Phase 98