Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. It is a well known fact that exercise helps you think better. (And View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. CCC: This stands for the “Covid-Chat-Check-In” and is based on an exercise from Liberating Structures Playbook. Then you interview people on different sides of the scale.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session. What I Was Inspired To Adapt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

Here's an interview with did with Holly Ross prior to the session. On the content side, I was surprised to hear the responses to the simplicity exercise - what could your organization do less of? Meetings was a big one, followed by worry! Allison Fine and I did a session called The Networked Nonprofit that we designed.

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NTC Network Reflection Nonprofit 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Typically, the facilitator may come up with a few provocative statements in advance, based on a participant assessment, interviews, or survey. But in this gathering, the provocative questions were crowdsourced from participants and this was done in small groups with sticky notes. Participants volunteered their question for the spectragram.

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Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have been using this technique for the past couple of months to incorporate walking and exercise into my day. The benefit of moving around helps with concentration. Capacity Reflection' Workstation popcorn is probably best suited for remote workers and people who work at home, but you can do it in an office setting.

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Method Technique Reflection Exercise 127

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 23, 2021

Their book is based on extensive research, including assessments of more than 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 C-level executives. Each chapter includes quick and easy exercises, tips and self-reflections that will help you train your mind to achieve different goals ranging from more focus to self-awareness.

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Mind Leadership Exercise Chapter 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 26, 2020

Their book is based on extensive research, including assessments of more than 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 C-level executives. Each chapter includes quick and easy exercises, tips and self-reflections that will help you train your mind to achieve different goals ranging from more focus to self-awareness.

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Mind Effective Leadership Exercise 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo. Since many of the guests are from time zones that are far away, to make it convenient, I will pre-record a video interview for students. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises. They can follow up with questions on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

So far, what I like a lot of about the first week is reflective exercises that help you apply the content to your own situation – in this case – how to decide what you want to give to – and reflecting on effective giving and not so effective from your own personal experience.

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Giving Free Lecture Module 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Their book is based on extensive research, including assessments of more than 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 C-level executives. Each chapter includes quick and easy exercises, tips and self-reflections that will help you train your mind to achieve different goals ranging from more focus to self-awareness.

Mind 52

Mind Leadership Exercise Chapter 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well. I’ve also done this during a session as part of a small group exercise.

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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2019

Their book is based on extensive research, including assessments of more than 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 C-level executives. Each chapter includes quick and easy exercises, tips and self-reflections that will help you train your mind to achieve different goals ranging from more focus to self-awareness.

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Mind Leadership Exercise Chapter 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

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. . Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. The moderator then interviews people at different points on the spectrum about the opinions they hold.

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Social Media Training Train Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

At the end of the conference, I interviewed Rosetta along with Ashely Cecil , Erin McMahon , and Diana Church -- all young nonprofit professionals. 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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. Our values reflect this commitment. Creativity is a muscle that needs to be exercised like anything else. Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang.

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Product Time Create Museum 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. This session closed with a reflection of how they could apply tips and recommendations and use measurement to further test these ideas.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Stephen Blyth wrote up this reflection from the workshop about mindfulness and points a recent Guardian post where Oliver Burkeman delves into ‘conscious computing’. The article showcases “Calming” technology – which is to use technology to help you focus or what he calls the “slow web movement.”

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Attention New Zealand Mind Technique 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. I coached this participant, with the help of the translator on getting her brand page set up! Here is what they shared: 1.)

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Facilitation Training Train International 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The topics include: Understanding the pillars of self-care for individuals: sleep, nutrition, exercise. Ways to encourage individual and group reflection and learning. We are on a mission to identify and interview people who work for nonprofits about their stories of scaling self-care in their organizations. Mindful Leadership.

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Alaska Nonprofit Internet Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0 Why not just use search?"

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Tag Reflection Practice Community 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Brain Mind Offline South Africa 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Always had suggestions for someone to interview or a paper or book to read. When the book was published, she was one of the first people who posed with a photo of the book. I quickly got the best biking routes to and from the Foundation. Stephanie was a huge help in what seem like a daunting process.

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Wiki California Philanthropy Boston 101

NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 15, 2015

Make sure you’re presenting a compelling role with a compensation package that reflects market realities. Be Thoughtful About the Interview Process. Map out your entire interview process long before you actually start interviews. Don’t assume you can just pay the same level of compensation you’ve been paying up until now.

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Interview Roles Nonprofit Exercise 28

Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

As fiduciaries, board members have three key legal duties to the nonprofit: Duty of Care: Board members are obligated to be thoughtful and committed as they execute their duties, and they must exercise their best judgment when making decisions on behalf of the organization. Fundraising is a huge part of a board’s duties.

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Nonprofit Government Roles Review 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. The primary research includes surveys, interviews, and observation. I also created some fun group exercises for folks to learn the concepts. Pscyho Socialgraphics!!

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Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. Network maps are "talking documents" or prompts for reflection and strategizing. These use tools like crayons and paper and process exercises. . The maps are used to improve the results of your network. Low-Tech Approaches.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Personal bloggers, of course, are wise to exercise caution about what they write about as Pamela Ashlund suggested in an interview I did with her last year. Susie's Blog A View from Home Regional ICT Support, Railway, and Coffee Ext337 NonprofitTech Blog. my blog posts are very varied in scope. ICT Champion.

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Personal Blogger Info Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . I also created a stand up, sit down exercise. See the interview I did for Arrive Magazine , pages 34-37). Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities. Is there a tactical tip to share?

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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People Community Video Podcast 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I caught up with for a quick email interview: Has your organization always been an "open" institution? There were some gut-churning moments putting those numbers up, but they are really the proof-in-the-pudding and demonstrate that the dashboard isn't just a spin exercise for the museum's PR department.

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Public Indianapolis Museum Organization 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. See this one of Marshall's feet) He even put up with me doing a public speaking exercise, shaking hands and singing twinkle, twinkle little star. Here 's her reflection and pointer to the talk. s very difficult to decide which to attend. Ma.gnolia 2.0

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Blogher Peru China Conference 50