Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. Here’s how they combined the videos.

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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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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. Mission statement and values on the wall.

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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. This can happen even if your organization is using video conferencing. The exercise teaches empathy.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

AI for Social Media: Supercharge Your Copy, Images & Videos Speaker(s): Kassandra Swenson, Senior Marketing Specialist AI tools are already being used by many organizations to brainstorm ideas, find efficiencies, and explore new ways of working. Empower your team, spark creativity, and accelerate your journey from idea to prototype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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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. The session starts with two quick exercises so we can be comfortable with the concepts. The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell, Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) 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. Group Photo with Certificates.

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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. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. In 2012, Howard Rheingold facilitated the production of the “ Peeragogy Handbook ,” a practical how-to.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Use Patient Journey Mapping Patient journey mapping exercise helps healthcare leaders understand how patients interact with their providers by outlining each communication touchpoint. Post-visit behavioral and lifestyle adjustment: The patient follows treatment instructions and makes lifestyle adjustments to facilitate healing and well-being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process. The official title of the session was “Donor Engagement in An Age of Complexity.”

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

After a welcome by Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute was our facilitator. ” Video streaming by Ustream. She challenged the room full of funders to change their mindset.

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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. As a trainer, sometimes we get into “ruts&# where we use the same exercises and that can make you less passionate about your work. explains the how and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast. Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. James Leventhal facilitated a workshop in Portland last month along with Adam Rozan of the Oakland Museum of California and Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology.

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JUNE 4, 2021

A good way to facilitate an in-kind donation campaign virtually is to take advantage of your online tools and make an eCommerce page with a list of needed products. Take Advantage Of Video Conferencing And Streaming Tools. Streaming video isn’t just a valuable way for you to connect with donors individually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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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. What was our learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. Here’s a quick video. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? The other thing that you’re going to do to facilitate that conversation is you’re going to. That’s how we facilitate it. . And so they created a series of videos, not complicated, didn’t charge them a lot. So keep that in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. Tobais Eigen captured it on video. Autumn Patterson ( @nerddotorg ) took excellent notes of the key points during the session.

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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. . For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities. We did an exercise to identify keywords and I demoed several tools. His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week, I became completely intoxicated with the online videos of Vi Hart , self-described mathemusician. Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. You know, I could say, “I’m going to lose it through healthy eating or exercise,” it’s action-driven.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

There’s lots of videos, lots of things you can look at to get a sense of what we offer. And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. So let’s do a little exercise here. You can send a custom thank-you video.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. I’ll drop the video. And what I found was that many of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

During the Full Circle training on online facilitation that I took this last month, we had a sandbox. It allowed us to play and get comfortable with the discussion software, faciliplay exercises, and other areas that participants wanted to explore like the audio as online conversation. I used MovieMaker in Windows.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if that is of interest to you, maybe you’re thinking of switching software or you’re just kind of curious about us, check out our website, all kinds of videos and stuff you can watch and, you know, we’d love for you to learn more. Let me know if my audio becomes unclear and I can turn off my video, okay? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. video and having people type themes into the chat worked. I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. I think showing the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. She was the facilitator for the event and did an excellent job keeping everyone on track and picking up key themes. Sopheap did an excellent facilitating the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Machine Is US/ing Us (video) ( transcript ). Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. The session outline is as follows: Introduction. Here's how to search on Technorati.

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