Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. Ask if anyone has any questions. Create a judgment-free zone. Well, almost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion. And it was fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

The challenge is part of the fun, right? In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. “Stuff” is coming your way. No leader expects an easy ride.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 9, 2012

The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. How do I have fun and do good? To follow impulses and question-threads and then circle back and follow another. I create conversations.

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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

We now provide you with our new breakout room feature within Workshops to facilitate concentrated conversations. Getting to know everyone: The best kind of personal connection is specialized, and writing a list of questions for each breakout room will help foster that conversation! That is the primary vibe of our breakout room option.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Those who find it fun are called nerds. We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Information is everything that is coming at us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Techniques for More Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

It is a fun activity that gets a few laughs, people moving, and replenishes energy. Adding some music makes it more fun. Some teams also establish “drop in or open door times,” the real world equivalent of popping your head into a colleague’s office to ask a quick question. That is the dance floor. Here’s a list of dance music.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. . Mix things up by adding a fun session or two. . Create the group and ask leading questions that will increase audience engagement and overall participation levels. Virtual Scavenger Hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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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

APRIL 1, 2020

Lots of fun to show off our neighborhoods or our dogs. Here’s a fun process to establish meeting norms during a pandemic that can be done online. Ask yourself these questions or use them to check-in with your staff at the beginning of meetings. I’ve been using FaceTime or Zoom to go on virtual walks with people.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. Mix things up by adding a fun session or two. Create the group and ask leading questions that will increase audience engagement and overall participation levels. Virtual Networking Ideas.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Then, encourage them to have a question and answer period or live polling where the virtual audience is asked to contribute. Well, yes, it may seem surprising but your hybrid event needs to facilitate networking opportunities ! Networking can be facilitated by an event platform through segregated networking sessions.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Live chat tools at virtual booths allow attendees to ask questions related to products or services and have those questions answered in real-time. Facilitate Networking. When planning your trade show, be careful to include events and sessions that will actively facilitate networking.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. These answers to these questions will help you plan the event content and develop a clear marketing strategy. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Innovation Facilitation Techniques.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Focus on how their past gifts are still making a difference and give them opportunities to ask questions about your organization. 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. Send Donors A Fun At-home Activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax. Milk the Cow is one example and while it might have been fun to do different handshakes when you were summer camp in Junior High, it is awkward and a little creepy to do this type of opener with professionals.

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NTEN

APRIL 6, 2012

Dear #12NTC - The NTC concluded last night, and then began the fun (and I am not being sarcastic here) of answering the question, "How'd it go?" So, my answer to all those questions was a pretty resounding "Awesome! This is the most fun I have had at the NTC!" As usual, I leave the NTC with many more ideas (and questions!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

leaders to answer nonprofit questions for the next NPLive. Sign up today to participate in the event to have these and many more of your questions answered. In the meantime, here are answers to a few of the frequently asked questions we receive about social video: What Is Social Video? Video production is a. Make it easy to.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2014

Instead of a traditional conference with concurrent sessions and a line-up of speakers, Leading Change Summit (LCS) is designed around the idea that the best ideas can emerge through facilitated workshops and driven conversations. Fun fact: this is not just for Executive Directors! Is LCS for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. I often incorporate sticky notes and often have to rearrange the furniture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2015

Not only do we learn something new, but it feels great to connect with other people who are asking the sames types of questions about their work. A part of my practice is around network design and facilitation and one of my most respected colleagues in this area is Eugene Eric Kim. So, when he sent around an email that Janne K.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. I thought it might be fun (and useful) to take a look back at this AdMarketing conversation. What was important then is even more important now! What did we miss a dozen years ago?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way. by Eric Jensen. by Jane Bozarth.

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