Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Weave reflection Into Meetings: Incorporate formalized reflection activities such as “ After Action Reviews ” for large projects and campaigns. Having a workplace flexibility policy can facilitate it. Rituals to Promote Growth and Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. ” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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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. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. And that if we haven’t reviewed and thought about a resource, we should not share it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Staff retreats” can mean all sorts of things: hours-long strategic planning sessions, reviewing annual reports and budgets, feedback sessions where staff are encouraged to ask questions of leadership but no one speaks up because everyone is in the same room. I’m a relatively new employee at ETR. The list goes on. There would be follow-up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). It is also important to target the right level of authority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Since the NTEN Academy is a peer exchange program, I did more than simply chunk content and encourage interaction through polls, the backchannel chat, and people talking on the phone line every 12 minutes. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture. Putnam, R. Leonardi, R.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Next, participants did a self-assessment, using the maturity of practice model ( Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ). My review of this excellent book is coming in the next weeks). I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. JD Lasica and I co-facilitated a workshop on measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Foundation has teamed up with an evaluation consultant, TCC Group, to figure out if working wikily can enhance the quality of learning as the OE Goldmine Research project and the Foundation’s OE program review move forward. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

9 of the best nonprofit CRM solutions available Start compiling potential CRM solutions by reviewing the following top options for nonprofits: Bloomerang Bloomerang is dedicated to helping nonprofits build relationships with their supporters, raise funds, and ultimately retain more support year after year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

It is less about the tools and more about the new mindsets you need to be successful. There are two excellent books that talk about this in the context of running an organization and addressing social issues – and I plan to review these in more depth next week. The model balances content, learning design, and participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. The five ways of thinking addressed by the model include different views on what the authors say, "why and how people or things change" (p. Remington & Sons around 1875.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. We got started with a welcome from Liane Wong who gave an overview of the program and how it fits into the grantmaking strategy that uses a networked approach.

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JULY 8, 2021

And, if a learner gets one of these questions wrong, it signals to them that it’s time to go back a few pages and review the past material before moving forward. With proctoring capabilities, your association won’t be limited from facilitating assessments related to accreditation and licensing. Proctoring high-stakes exams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. Tactical Philthanthropy's Ten Top Projects - Sean Stannard-Stockton has put in the grunt work to review 100 plus projects to review and listed his top ten choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. So, armed with an improvised mobile wireless mic, I used an Oprah style facilitation.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So over the summer, BoardSource published a really excellent report called “Leading with Intent: Reviewing the State of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on Nonprofit Boards.” So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. They can help with follow-up.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And if you stay for the whole thing, you still get those things and you can review them, you can pass them on to a friend or a colleague. The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. If you are the person tasked with supporting this team, remember you have to model enthusiasm and make it contagious. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You should understand how this model works , but don’t get distracted by trying to find flaws in how engagement measures are constructed. What do you do to facilitate it? Gathering insights: I review other blogs on the list to see if there are ideas that I can incorporate into my own blogging. How do they compare to my blog?

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 5, 2016

They have the expertise crucial for nonprofits seeking to create sustainable business models. Their contributions to boards have included those that are traditional: financial analysis, review of contracts and insurance policies, real estate advice, support for a gala, solicitation of contributions, hosting “friend raisers,” etc.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I saw that in an article I paraphrased, a part of an article I read about resilience in leadership in the Harvard Business Review probably six or seven months ago. And so for some organizations, going to a hybrid model, which I’ll talk about for a little bit is going to be most advantageous to the health of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

If people fail in an intervention model, you can destabilize a society. Knowledge Capture and Reflection. With every presentation, panel, or workshop, I do knowledge capture and reflection. Use Good Facilitation Practices. Use Good Facilitation Practices. Innovation is driven by iteration.

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