Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. 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

APRIL 8, 2020

There are number of reasons we feel exhausted from zoom meetings as Jeremy Bailenson, Virtual Human Interaction Lab points out. If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. How can you avoid Zoom Overload?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis.

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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. Here’s a write of this technique.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered. Nothing like first-person accounts.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. It can contribute to exchanges and interactions that are at the heart of nonprofit network building. Information is everything that is coming at us.

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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

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.” Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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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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JULY 3, 2023

The answer to that last question is almost certainly your website. Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. We’ll also provide you with some starter ideas and thought-provoking questions to spark your creativity and enhance your visuals and design.

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APRIL 24, 2014

There are a lot of hard questions that must be asked, however. Questions like: What potential security hazards does a BYOD policy present? Medical equipment, household appliances, and almost everything else will all be connected and interacting with the internet. What happens when there’s a problem with someone’s hardware?

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. You will find answers to questions like, “Why are some learning tasks easier in the morning or afternoon?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. The audience laughed. Content is king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. What question do they want to answer by the end of the day? I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it.

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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. Pay close attention to interactions with other people. Ask Good Questions. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. Next I ask, do you have a half-hour to brainstorm 30 questions that you can ask your network as part of your Facebook content strategy? Social Media Master Class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. This leads me to a question, “Why don’t more people who work for nonprofits embrace this “learning from failure” or growth mindset – especially when using technology? Was it anticipated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. What techniques are you using? Does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. What are your best tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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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. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. Interactive Training Engages. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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APRIL 7, 2011

South by Southwest ( SXSW ) Interactive is a conference, that takes place each Spring in Austin, TX, with over 20,000 web influencers, emerging tech, and creatives. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. To complement the Playbook, we organized a Peer Learning Exchange where participants could gather, share ideas and ask questions. The campaigns were treated as works in progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC. Rob Cottingham.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It One thing that I do is try to do my interaction on my phone and use my desktop for posting. and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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