Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Similarly, provide clear instructions for individuals interested in volunteering or getting involved.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . Yes, people attend conferences and trade shows in order to learn and grow their skill set, but they also attend to network with other industry professionals.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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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.” ” So I set up a series of photos depicting different body language and different situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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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. Be aware of what they say, how they say it and body language. Observe and Understand Body Language. According to research, 55% of the message you convey comes from your body language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. She created templates that the trainers could used to create cards in Arabic language. Mary did a fabulous job!

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . Yes, people attend conferences and trade shows in order to learn and grow their skill set, but they also attend to network with other industry professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

According to Ed Bice, the short term goal is to just make sure that information is flowing between language communities and the longer term goal is to network these communities. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

On-Demand Video: Beyond language considerations, a global audience can mean multiple time zones. event reminders that include relevant information like login instructions and tech support contacts, post-event follow up emails that say thank you and includes a link to your post-event survey. Employ traditional media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. . Growing My Instructional Chops. What are your thoughts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. These are different cultures, different languages, different ways and styles of working. Photo by Goldberg.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2017

During this time, many nonprofits reviewed their email marketing programs for compliance, and Blackbaud ensured all of our products used to send email facilitated your ability to do so. CASL laws allowed for a 3-year provisional period that began July 1, 2014 to allow businesses and nonprofits to prepare for the legislation. Have you done so?

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

On-Demand Video: Beyond language considerations, a global audience can mean multiple time zones. event reminders that include relevant information like login instructions and tech support contacts, post-event follow up emails that say thank you and includes a link to your post-event survey. Employ traditional media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. 1) Everybody is People.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Use clear language and large, easy to read fonts.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

When I've talked with those same folks in bridged groups, they use more circumspect language (i.e. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. not feeling "welcome") or don't mention their safety concerns at all. But those concerns are real.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Use clear language and large, easy to read fonts.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2008

The facilitator is functionally another visitor, one with whom the participant is not only willing but eager to speak. But Storycorps still requires facilitators, and it asks a lot of its participants. This is what separates Daisy from all the instructional graphics and "What do YOU thinks?" we can put on screens.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Video allows attendees to gauge others’ body language so that they can accurately tap into their nonverbal communication. Patching together several different systems can help facilitate your virtual meetings, but it opens up the possibility of more potential tech problems.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So that is what we explore in depth in our certificate in philanthropic psychology at our institute, how can we, through fundraising in the charitable sector, facilitate the love that people can have, not only for those easily lovable, but also for the people that might be most difficult for us to love. This just feel way too manipulative.”

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Next, with as much detail as possible, provide step-by-step instructions on how the results were achieved. Your ability to add value to the conversation, whether by facilitating a thoughtful discussion or by presenting industry changing data, is what gives your content meaning. Conclusion.

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