Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

This is not actually a photo from the dialogue series. We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. However, it is a favorite photo from another recent Tech Networks of Boston event.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

By taking advantage of more traditional methods as well as leveraging social media and peer-to-peer fundraising best practices, you’ll be on your way to hosting a winning event! Consider leveraging these best practices: Send thank-you notes. Update your social media.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. ” So, I like to share a few of my favorites that I have inspired me in my instructional/training practice. By Dave Meier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

Flickr Photo by TomtheJet. I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). Stephen is an expert in many training methods so this will be an excellent co-learning experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them. It is also important to become hyper self-aware of when you are not practicing self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Photo by Aussiegal. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. The term Peeragogy came fluttering through my network, like a butterfly, and it caught my interest. It resonated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. I have read a lot about these methods , but you cannot really under it until you experience it.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Develop a Strategy. Let’s begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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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 We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. The Pomodoro method and app is one way to avoid the productivity loss of procrastination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

I’m doing a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Jana Byington-Smith and Rob Cottingham on methods for visualization and maintain focus, including mindmapping. So, I’ve been practicing by creating visual notes. However, Amy Sample Ward took this adorable photo of her dog Simba with the book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. 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. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. Depending on the platform, you can even include photos or videos to tell your story. Take your onboarding online. Keep your volunteers engaged.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Before we dive into how to successfully utilize digital marketing for fundraising event engagement, let’s take a look at what digital marketing is and why you need to include it in your practice. Ideas include asking participants to create videos, share photos, or come up with clever hashtags and branding ideas for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall. Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

You’ve probably redirected your focus to virtual methods, too. Prioritizing your online presence and digital engagement methods is key to not just surviving, but thriving, during this time. These “Family Meetings” are a great way to not only keep supporters engaged, but also to facilitate them meeting other supporters they don’t know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant. Bregman has a method for that. This book is a gem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Photo by Darren Hester. At the Packard Foundation our commitment to effectiveness directly plays out in our evaluation and learning culture and practices. In practice, this extends further than evaluation, and represents our overall approach to an appropriate monitoring, evaluation, and learning system for each programmatic area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. The example above comes from Momsrising , a “flyer” when it comes to measurement practice. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. This leads to better understanding of networks and social media and more effective adoption of the tools and network practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. Four or five decades of organizational development and organization change theory, practice and results have shown us that. Beth asked me to elaborate.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. SUGGESTED METHOD #1. The first method I can suggest is one I have used with many of my nonprofit clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? What are the best practices for telling your organization's story? What are some measurement processes, practices, and tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. This is a great method for peer learning. Here's where the coffee cup photos enter. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. And, make sure that participants document the baking process, whether it’s with a livestream or a series of photo updates! Trivia night.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Plus, you can use these photos in your social media posts promoting the event to entice your followers to get involved. These days, it’s rare to see an auction rely on the old-school method of paper bids. Dive deep into the general best practices for how you might host a fundraising auction event for your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

These small adjustments to your donation form will inspire donors and facilitate donations… and all of them can be done in just a few minutes. Add a high-quality photo to your online donation form. One of the simplest changes you can make to your online donation form is adding a great photo to the top of your page.

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