Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 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. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of “modeling the model,” so we wanted to use and model best practices for designing effective meetings on their preferred platforms. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out. Design must comes first.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion.

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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

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

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. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

From tracking conversations and donations to event registrations, you can note every interaction you have with a supporter in your nonprofit CRM. Ensure any CRM you invest in offers features such as: Donor profiles Nonprofit CRMs automatically create donor profiles for supporters who contribute or interact with your nonprofit.

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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! To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

The pandemic hastened digital interactions; the experience evolved. Have you interacted digitally with any organizations over the past 12 months? On a scale of 1 to 5, how much did you enjoy your virtual interactions? How much would you prefer to return to in-person interactions? What can you do to connect afresh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. Developed by ETR in 2014, this is a research-based approach for designing and delivering skill-building trainings. Pre-work would prime me for the learning objectives.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

As SA’s Volunteer Coordinator, I was fortunate to keep working full-time from home, where I ramped up a new way of volunteering remotely, finding additional volunteers, and training a mixed group of new and longtime volunteers to help host these programs on Zoom. The video calls have a consistent structure to them.

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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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Mobility is huge, enabling a mobile workforce with nonprofits having people in the field, and collecting data and interacting with the data and apps anywhere. Nonprofits should be highly encouraged to facilitate the use of new platforms of service delivery to increase their impact.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. Model the Model. The workshop is co-presented by S tanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction. So, varying speakers, interaction, and mediums – helps make the content stick.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recruiting and onboarding new employees is far more costly than retaining existing trained employees. Before we go over how to implement new strategies to engage employees, let’s discuss the challenges many businesses and nonprofits face when it comes to employee engagement, such as: Insufficient training. Increased retention.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry. We see it all the time in this modern internet age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As a Master Trainer, one of my favorite models of training adults is the Peer Learning Exchange where a group of participants who are working on a similar project or domain of practices interact regularly to learn how to do it better.

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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. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. It was delivered in two sessions.

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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.” They also had a chance to interact with peers with different styles to learn more.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. Again and again, she told personal stories of her interactions with the historic and monumental people and events she described. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. I avoid them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

I have led Martus outreach and training for the past 4 years and worked with human rights defenders all over the world, but because of the project-specific nature of our work, I interact with each of our partners separately. For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Facilitator bits. You did great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Training Design. As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2017

Note from Beth: I recently facilitated a Happy Healthy Nonprofit workshop on bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. We discussed the importance of leadership modeling and supporting a culture of wellbeing. ETR Associates Staff Walking Group. I’ve got my Fitbit set to remind me to take 250 steps an hour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. The Facebook daily check-ins in-between our calls are to provide support and facilitate discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Here are a few different types of donor management software that nonprofits use to handle their relationships: CRM: A constituent relationship management system is a comprehensive tool for tracking donor data and interactions. It’s a tool that holds all of your information about your donors and their interactions with your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

A model of generosity. Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives. Interactive community : Engage with others in this work, via a discussion forum , articles , blog and wiki (hosted by the Packard Foundation). I think he’d be proud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Participants become part of the workshop curriculum and share their experience – which seems very appropriate for a social media training. I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. I usually get fantastic answers from FB page fans – and the content encourages interaction!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. This group was one that was comfortable learning in public and modeled it. I also got a great idea: a set of cards for the facilitators of each group.

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