Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2021 professional accomplishments: NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award : I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. Joyful: If I were to continue with another “F” word, it would be fun.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

The challenge is part of the fun, right? Our goal was to help association professionals navigate a new technological era or Industry 4.0. Hitch Curiosity to Possibility A strong technology infrastructure unites curiosity with possibility. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2014

All this summer weve been introducing you to the facilitators who will make the three tracks so memorable. Lisa is an internationally renowned facilitator and educator known for her use of Open Space Technology and other participant-driven dialogic and interactive methods for engaging deeper reflection, learning, and interchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2021 professional accomplishments: NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award : I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. Joyful: If I were to continue with another “F” word, it would be fun.

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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. The primary roles are idea generators and facilitators. Give everybody a turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2021, I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared. I finished my last board meeting in early 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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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 2, 2013

The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference takes place in Minneapolis next week. It is the largest gathering of people who work in the nonprofit sector and technology. I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. Gaping Void Cartoons.

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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. In fact, such a bot exists, it is called Donut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Silence on video calls makes us anxious about the technology compared to natural pauses that happen during in-person communication. ( BBC – Gianpiero Petriglieri ) . It is a fun activity that gets a few laughs, people moving, and replenishes energy. Adding some music makes it more fun. second delay.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We wanted to create a fun and collaborative environment to pitch an idea, help them think strategically, and find like-minded individuals to work through their ideas together.”. I wanted to connect technology to my interest in nonviolent communication and to educate people about how our words can cause unintended harm,” said Yee Won.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

It has surfaced a new technology affliction: Zoom Overload. . 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. A more fun way to do a meeting icebreaker or check-in, is to use breakout rooms. What is a challenge?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2019

Facilitate this natural phenomenon by encouraging team fundraising within your event. Either way, putting an element of gamification in place creates more engagement and an element of fun that is sure to make a difference in your event. Encourage team fundraising. Add social fundraising to your event.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

Particularly for peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising, mobile capabilities have become crucial in meeting donors where they are, providing a simple, fun donor experience that results in higher turnout, increased revenue, and better year-over-year retention of event participants, donors, and P2P fundraisers. That means more donors and more dollars.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

The key is making participation fun and frictionless. It empowers participants by giving them something fun and social to invite friends and family to. Tools that allow participants to create individual or team fundraising pages and share updates on social media facilitate this. Events also help tell the story behind the cause.

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DipJar

JUNE 23, 2022

PITTSBURGH, June 23, 2022 – DipJar, a giving technology platform, today announced the Early Access release of DipJar Online, which will enable nonprofit organizations to create goal-driven, campaign-based fundraising initiatives that facilitate multi-channel donor engagement.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

You might also need to have one of your event managers monitoring the online forums in each session to monitor and facilitate the gamification. If you have an automated system included in your event technology , this might make things easier. Fun things to include in your in-person event are public shout-outs!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

I think the decline of personal letter writing is one of saddest casualties of technological expansion. Here are 5 have fun, do good letter writing ideas: 1. Make your own cards! I love Strathmore's collection of blank cards. Be a do-good pen pal.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With the right technology and management strategies, overseeing registrations can become a breeze, allowing you to focus more on making your next fundraiser a success. Integrate with your existing technology. The right software can facilitate changes to your event registration process that might otherwise be daunting or intimidating.

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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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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But with the right technology and information, there is no reason that you can’t do so successfully. . 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. Networking opportunities.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2012

poetryslam At NTEN, we love all the various tools and technologies that help us communicate and connect with our community, ensure that all of our work and cat videos are backed up, and our data is both useable and safe. We love technology so much that every now and then we're moved to write a poem or song lyrics. We can't wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

So, I’ve been experimenting with how to socialize at a distance using the technology. 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. It is very hard not to be able to see family, friends, or co-workers in real life.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Eastern) for this free webinar to find out how to make your training job easier, more fun, and an even better learning experience for your participants. Learn to use a lesson plan to organize your workshops and facilitate sharing with your co-workers and other organizations. Mountain, 1 p.m. Central, 2 p.m. read more.

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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.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Part of change management is continuing the dialogue and dare we say, have fun.? Technology can and should support your fundraising and financial relationship strategy. . Make it a goal to hear: “I didn’t know you did all that” or “that’s more complicated than I thought.”? We can all agree on these rallying points: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are many nonprofit, social media, and technology conferences all year long. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Conference: March 12-15th. This will be my 14th Nonprofit Technology Conference. I’ll also be attending Penguin Day. There are also lots of fun social events, like NTCBeer. Photo by George Galanais.

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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. A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it. Choose a Virtual Event Platform.

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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. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018! I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet! This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Becoming a digital organization means infusing technology into your association’s ecosystem. Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. If only it were that simple.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

Through Nimble AMS, associations can now move beyond traditional AMS to leverage modern technological innovation and access capabilities and features that once were available only to Fortune 500 companies. Fun and easy product training. A strong user community is a critical to succeed with technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

It lets you choose from Stripe or Moolah to facilitate online transactions, monthly gifts, or EFT donations. Kindful is another powerful donor-tracking software that facilitates online giving as a built-in feature. I love that it puts everything in ONE place, all fully integrated. The fee is $59/month plus a 4% processing fee.

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