Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories.

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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. Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I’ve collected the resources, notes, slides, and tweets from the session in this post. Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? You can find all resources materials here. I nominate #14ntctrain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. There is also an self-assessment exercise.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. Now, onto the next slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

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. The peer assist session was designed based on the sticky notes of questions that participants wanted to address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. (tags: nonprofits roi ). Return on Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. It makes me wonder about the various techniques for getting people to shift attention from small group to large group. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. I also created a stand up, sit down exercise. View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

The slides and resources from the session can be found here. ” In addition to thinking about how much exercise can I get this week, also think about how little sitting you can do. Leadership Technique: Leaders that do walking meetings can accommodate the many requests for their time. It was refreshing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. The first half hour was spent in introduction and teasing out burning questions.

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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 have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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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. What worked? What didn't? Before I went on Twittered. What's the outcome?

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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

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. As you plan your facilitator outline,review each activity or exercise focusing specifically on how remote participants will engage. Is anyone dominating the conversation?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. So I have a question for y’all. And so the question then comes into play, is it really time to go back?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. Another fun role is “Rabbit Hole Monitor” that uses a technique called “ ELMO ” (enough already let’s move on). Here are some more techniques to ensure that your virtual meeting participants are listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. A great meeting or training starts with a great icebreaker.Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax. Here are some more techniques to ensure that your virtual meeting participants are listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. A big question in this workshop is how can these program incorporate social media effectively?

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

It will also have the slides. So I’m going to pipe down and I’ll stop sharing my screen here, Maryanne, and I’ll let you bring up your slides if you want. So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. Now, there’s not a ton of content on these slides.

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