EveryAction

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here !

Demonstration 192

Demonstration Impact Support Story 192

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

Poll 50

Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s more about giving participants a jump on applying it and guiding them so they can put it into practice as quickly as possible after the workshop. If you are designing and delivering training on any topic, here’s some things to think about to ensure that your participants have a transformative learning experience.

Training 98

Training Train Reflection Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

We are only about one month into the world’s largest work from home experiment. Sometimes you want to do some “social engineering” and put people together with similar experience or characteristics. A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question.

Exercise 177

Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Prioritize a streamlined user experience (UX) for donors. Use this key moment of increased traffic to grow your support base by accurately recording all of your new contacts, and let your integrated web tools help you offer supporters a more seamless user experience that encourages further engagement.

Virtual 190

Virtual Site Support Fundraising 190

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

Reflection 64

Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? When was the last time you went to a conference and had a deep learning experience through conversation and stimulation of all senses from a traditional panel?

NTC 96

NTC Conference Learning Experiment 96

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Adaptive learning models can empower teachers to customize instruction for each student’s needs, and students can even personalize a digital tutoring experience. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.

Generation 93

Generation Education Blackbaud Model 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. If you use a survey ahead time, you can do more fine-tuning.

Design 107

Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. These participants clearly understood the concepts of making a ROI case – and how to transfer those techniques to social media. Ellie taught a great trick.

Social Media 96

Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

Reflection 95

Reflection Data Slides Exercise 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” Creating Learning Experiences That Inspire and Engage. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

Training 100

Training Train Reflection Resource 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. Hashtag Stats.

Reflection 103

Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. This is the gift of time.

Social Media 91

Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. Briceño : This depends on the situation. When and how?

Learning 94

Learning Free Reflection Model 94

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. Both ideas were new, so it took a little bit of adaption of the templates and techniques, but we managed to come up with something useful for all.

Reflection 50

Reflection Network Mexico South America 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise. For the small group work well, it requires having at least one person with hands-on experience. This gave me a visual of who had experience and asked them not to all sit at the same table.

Social Media 82

Social Media Reflection Network Strategy 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Click to see the larger image.

Analysis 50

Analysis Reflection Experiment Time 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way.

Professional 0

Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas.

Registration 128

Registration Leadership Impact Change 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Being able to make decisions and evaluate are more appropriate for a learning experience delivered over time such as a semester long course or at least having some time and space in between sessions. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

Reflection 56

Reflection Wiki Instruction Instructional 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I’m finding that my learning and online work is a fast forward, swimming in the stream experience. 4.) Reflection: Reflection doesn’t have to be a huge amount of time to be effective.

Content 139

Content Tips Help Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. Just A Little Content To Get Started . Opening Exercise.

Participatory 76

Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Qualitative Staff Characteristics (project-related experience, shared backgrounds, executive biographies, etc.). We adapted.

Grant 111

Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

Social Media 94

Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

I designed and facilitated “ A Global Conversation: Free Agents and Nonprofits in a Networked World ” at the SXSWi Interactive over the weekend as an opportunity to experiment with some of these ideas. As many of you know, I’m comfortable with public learning, so using this post to share what I learned.

Facilitation 98

Facilitation Channel Social Media Global 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” While their answers and anecdotes were different, one simple technique or theme came across: “Stay connected to the source of your work.” ” What this means is being able to see and experience first hand the impact of your organization’s programs and how those programs transform people.

Reflection 50

Reflection Calendar Files Interview 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Jarche also points to James Mangan who identified several skills for acquiring knowledge in 1936 (via Maria Popova ).

Content 123

Content San Francisco Technique Skills 123

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He explains that: Company culture is the system of beliefs, values, goals, behaviors, and the way employees feel working in the organization—from leadership style, decision-making norms, customer experience, and company policies—officially and unofficially. Use your desired customer experience as your North Star.

Culture 52

Culture Companies Cisco Government 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you?

Professional 103

Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

What I have always appreciated about GivingTuesday since the beginning is how they innovate and anticipate new trends in giving and incorporate into the campaign – either as toolkits or techniques for nonprofits to test and adopt. ” This generation is loosely defined as those born after 1995 and who are now 18 and under.

Generation 130

Generation Donor Help Classroom 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

Like Geoff,s I often get tired of reading the same people and ideas over and over again – and like to discover new topics and thinking. Some new topics that are beckoning for me are: Effective teaching and learning techniques that can be used for designing and delivering training. I tend to do this one or two times a year.

Google 100

Google Iran Reflection Feeds 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

Blackbaud 93

Blackbaud Conference Reflection Atlanta 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

They get midway through an experiment, view it as a failure and give up. Wendy is a real team player and made the session a lot of fun! We explored people’s listening routines, perceptions about the value of listening, and specific tools and techniques. Don’t give up!

Practice 94

Practice Free Share Reflection 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

Tunisia 104

Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104