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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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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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OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? What’s of interest? Existing Communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? What’s of interest? Existing Communities.

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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. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. 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. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Role Playing Simulation For Making ROI Argument: Many nonprofits are often faced with the question, “What the value of social media&# from senior management. All in all, a great learning experience for me and it was fun! View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud.

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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. Reflection from #NTC2014 on Instructional Design. Facilitation Methods and Techniques.

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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. She calls it "joyful funeral" -- that you quickly say this didn't work, reflect on why, and move on.

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MARCH 23, 2011

That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Straight presentation kills all learning. This mixture leads to rich learning and documentation. Rob Cottingham. Photo by Devon Smith.

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JUNE 6, 2018

“Staff retreats” can mean all sorts of things: hours-long strategic planning sessions, reviewing annual reports and budgets, feedback sessions where staff are encouraged to ask questions of leadership but no one speaks up because everyone is in the same room. And of course, we’d have fun while we did all of these things.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people? Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting? That is one reason why I always incorporate a reflection at the end that helps participates identify one small action step.

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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? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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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. Online Communities: Are Best Practices Still Best Practices?

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MAY 7, 2013

Here’s a few reflections about presenting remotely in locations outside of the US. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” Format: Our session was 90 minutes. Photo by Be Chandra. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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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. Here’s some examples.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions.

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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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. The conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face! This saved a lot of time during the report out on reflections and learning.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

As part ongoing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am designing, facilitating, and delivering workshops with Compasspoint. Last week, I had the great pleasure of presenting a one-day workshop with colleagues Holly Minch , JD Lasica , Janet Fouts , and Susan Tenby. Learns from experience and data.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. To complement the Playbook, we organized a Peer Learning Exchange where participants could gather, share ideas and ask questions.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. It's an opportunity for some reflection about what the story means. It's an opportunity for some reflection about what the story means.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can incorporate fun polls and surveys to engage potential participants and appeal to your advocates. You want your advocates to feel confident and encouraged, so be sure to answer any questions they have throughout the training process. Remind your volunteers that you’re available to answer any questions or receive feedback.

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MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. And we were looking forward to having fun on social media celebrating giving during the fifth annual Give to the Max Day. Our Response.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

My reflections are here. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. And that can be fun too!

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APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Not great as many of reflected. Collective Capital (@cocapimprov) April 6, 2015.

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JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I worked with both to prepare an ignite style presentation that shared a specific campaign or project that incorporated social media. Both answered the same set of reflective questions, carefully crafted to extract wisdom. Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. . The important question is to ask, "to what end?

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JANUARY 27, 2010

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". Don't hold all your questions until the end, take Twitter breaks and allow for questions.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#. Transparency and “ Arab NGOs” can they go together?

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MARCH 19, 2012

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. It is also fun to re-mix presentations for an audience outside of the US. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan. Mohammad L.

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