Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax. While I love using magic markers and sticky notes or tossing a ball in icebreakers and exercises, don’t only use activities that require having materials or equipment on hand. 3) Meet and Greet: Share and Answer Your Favorite Icebreaker Question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. Here is where you can encourage people to ask their questions live – via the phone versus the chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes. This was part of an exercise to think through how a personal brand can support an organizational brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Before focusing on workplace strategies and culture change, participants go through some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan. ” As the word cloud appears on the screen, we discuss the triggers and reactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

An easy way to do this is to pause or take a breath after ten minutes to answer questions or give participants something active to do rather than passively listen. 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.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

But after many sessions, I realize that using chat, virtual polls, and virtual breakout rooms can be just as engaging and involving as an in-person class. “When we went virtual, I worried so much about being able to keep connected and help the nonprofit staff members who attended our in-person trainings. The result?

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AccelEvents

MARCH 4, 2021

Quizzes, problem-solving exercises, virtual scavenger hunts, and event gamification are ways to incorporate people who may better absorb information through tactile experiences. Live polling during presentations can have a similar effect. You can learn a lot about your audience by the questions they may be asking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

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. For this meeting, we asked two questions: What makes a meeting a good, productive use of your time? A meeting hook does the same thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I spent some time in the beginning asking questions and letting people share their experience and perspectives on social media. As much as I could, if I got asked a question, I invited the younger folks in the room to answer and facilitated an inter-generational dialog. Here's the full room exercises. (1) It was eye opening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

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. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey. Social Learning: Face-to-Face.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). The first half hour was spent in introduction and teasing out burning questions.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. So one of the questions that has just come up is, I’m going to pause on that, Kathleen, thank you for that question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 mean for you? hard to use ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. I used the chat as a backchannel and invited people to add questions or comments as we went along. But, there were great questions. Now, that has never happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can also use polls and surveys for collecting input from your colleagues in advance, before the meeting, so that everyone has the same opportunity to share their ideas (they may not have it during the meeting). Consider what tools and techniques, digital or otherwise, can be used to maximize their interaction with the in-room attendees.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 29, 2016

Dumb question, I know. Your answers to the following questions will frame the answers you come up with for the following questions. Send in their answers to your poll? Few other questions are more important. In our questions revolving around the reader, we asked, “Why would they be likely to respond?”

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Achieve

JANUARY 1, 2018

Since the difference in reasons for not voting appears to have to do with roadblocks, it begs the question: If more Asians would have been eligible or could have gotten to the polls – thereby eliminating reasons No. 1 and 2 for not voting – would they have gone to the polls and cast a vote?

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