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.” When I’m training other trainers, I often get asked “What books should I read?” By Dave Meier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space.

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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. Instructional Design. Feng Shui of Good Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Even harder to incorporate “going meta.”

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share.

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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. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Of course the training room has to accommodate this.)

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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. Icebreakers that Rock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Betsey Russell captured the highlights of the content in this blog post, “ Boosting Nonprofit Communication Capacity.”. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of series of workshops on resilience. I made this part of the instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I also use them a lot when I doing full-day trainings. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. Here are the techniques: Meeting Ritual: A Moment of Quiet: Many people who work at nonprofits are often in many meetings, often scheduled back-to-back, everyday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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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. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2017 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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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. As someone who has been in the nonprofit field 35 years, I can sum up my experience as: ”Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Recently, a nonprofit professional said to me, “I don’t have time to learn anything new because I have too much work to do.” Now to be honest, as an adjunct professor and someone who has facilitated and taught workshops for over 25 years, I used to think that long, intense courses was the only way to go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out. Here’s some ideas for different questions for virtual icebreakers for nonprofits ). You can customize how many participants per room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. The event kicks off a semester long internship for students working with nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. Movement helps wake them up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet. There are many ways to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

For the last few years, there has been a good nonprofit presence and this year is no exception! I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Nonprofit Social Media Managers Enter The C-Suite: Peer To Peer. Sunday, March 10 3:30PM – 6:00PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I'm preparing for a Social Media workshop next month called " Making Sense of and Success with Social Media " where the audience will be consultants who work with nonprofits in other areas (not technology). I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Year in Review.

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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? 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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

COVID-19 is forcing nonprofits to think differently about engaging supporters. The unique challenge for nonprofits—especially those that rely on in-person support—will be providing virtual opportunities to their supporters to adapt to this new environment. Shortage of healthy, trained medical staff. Urgent issues. Urgent issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For many nonprofits, Google Analytics is the tool of choice for measuring traffic, reach, engagement, and action primarily because it is free. While it is somewhat easy to use, some of the more valuable features may require a little tutoring to understand and use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods.

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

Of all of the trainings that I have offered since starting Twenty Hats, I am proudest of the two Volunteer Manager Leadership Circles that I initiated. A Leadership Circle is a common practice for business owners, corporate CEOs and nonprofit executives. Why I love this practice and know it’s worth the commitment.

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