Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List. also use it as a reflection as the year progresses. Here they are: Rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. My journal is not only an annual planning and goal-setting tool but also supports daily reflection as the year progresses. I also facilitated numerous design workshops and resilience staff retreats virtually.

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Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

NTEN

JUNE 5, 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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Facilitation Leadership NTEN Track 95

Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2020

You’re leading an online orientation for prospective volunteers – or perhaps it’s a volunteer training – or even a staff meeting – and the energy in the room never quite gets off the ground. With so many online meetings, perhaps your group is just plain tired of staring at a screen. Have you experienced this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“ also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

Professional 89

Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

NTEN

JUNE 16, 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.

Facilitation 60

Facilitation Iowa Brain Digital 60

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 use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

Has your nonprofit done an online Twitter chat? Now, I have some questions: This is to my hosts. What is the application that you’re using to aggregate the Tweets? What are your best Twitter moderation techniques? What was the experience? Next week, my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse will be the host on #socialmedia.

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Technique Twitter Facilitation Reflection 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Note from Beth: Mitch Arnowitz and I recently participated in an online discussion at Venture Philanthropy Partners/Leap of Reason about creating a community of practice for continuous improvement and high performance in the nonprofit sector. Online Communities: Are Best Practices Still Best Practices?

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Community Online Cisco Facilitation 102

Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Online fundraising is increasingly essential for nonprofits, but these types of initiatives come with unique challenges. Average online fundraising revenue declined by 4% in 2022 after two years of monumental growth inspired by the global pandemic. What are online fundraising platforms? Report on fundraising data.

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Platform Donation Online Fundraising 62

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. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. 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.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

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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Reflection Network Mexico South America 50

fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

What if you had time to reflect, think and process between sessions? So the prospect of doing your whole strategic planning process online as well might fill you with dread. Think of all the bad meetings you have attended – whether in person or online what made those meetings boring and frustrating?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you?

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. 1-2-4-All: This facilitation process comes from Liberating Structures. The reflection questions might include: What resonated? Reflection & Takeaways.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Offline vs Online. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? Community of Interest.

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Voice Reflection Conversation Digital 102

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Offline vs Online. Were you there, and have ideas to add to this reflection? Community of Interest.

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Voice Reflection Conversation Digital 102

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Develop a chatbot that recommends relevant resources, such as whitepapers, webinars, or online courses, based on a member’s current needs and interests.

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Las Vegas Language Interaction Associations 221

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Are we currently using an online platform to send emails to our constituents? Do we have an online platform to collect donations? Define Your Ideal MarTech Stack Using the diagram you made of your current MarTech stack, create a version of it that is updated to reflect your nonprofit’s ideal state.

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Build Map Platform Integration 59

EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

The tools that you use to engage supporters online should integrate with your website and, ideally, your database or constituent relationship management (CRM) platform. For year-end virtual fundraising campaigns that involve online events, a centralized user experience is essential for engaging supporters.

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Virtual Site Support Fundraising 190

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Before focusing on workplace strategies and culture change, participants go through some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan. 1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal. Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

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Professional Management Journal Reflection 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). I revised the cards for the first time in a while to reflect some of the new content. I was part of a team that included.

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Social Media Reflection Network Strategy 82

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. 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. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Offer customized swag: Create personalized swag bags or merchandise that reflect the values and interests of different age groups. Engage on digital platforms: Use the technology younger donors favor—like QR codes or Tap to Pay —to facilitate easy capture of contact information and donations. Make the process as seamless as possible.

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Network Donor Fundraising Registration 78

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.” Compensate them for their contributions generously.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

One of the science-based findings identified that online meetings get the same results as in-person meetings when everyone turns on their video cameras. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout. They published “ Ten Rules Simple Rules for Meaningful Meetings.”

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Camera Attention Virtual Collaboration 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. … Read More.

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Tips Exercise Brain Facilitation 73

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

Jordan and his team took steps to ensure all employees had the ability to work from home and to make sure the foundation’s services remained available online on a global scale to subscribers. Time was of the essence to respond to the challenges swiftly and remain an invaluable asset to the Jewish community online.

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Foundation Jordan Technology Help 107

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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Synchronous Facilitation Practice Second Life 50

The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Last Friday, for the first part of the Matrix Group holiday celebration, I hired a facilitator to run a group discussion about the year we’ve just had. Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021? I’m thinking a lot about the future.

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Reflection Environment Brain Test 246

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. This required setting up online curriculum that could step folks through set up and aid their planning and implementation.

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2013

This 3-hour course showcases real-world examples to help you discover how best to protect, positively promote, and selectively manage your online personal and professional profiles, all while maintaining your connections to family, friends, colleagues and networks. Blog post reflections. Related Links : KAUST. Slides (coming soon).

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Social Media Guide Lecture Media 105

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among the noteworthy features included the ideal ecosystem are (i) the virtual events channel (reflecting the constraints newly imposed by COVID-19) and (ii) the increasingly feature-rich WhatsApp channel. Lack of visibility online. Digital Storytelling Framework. Limited budget. Worldwide competition. Physical distance from audience.

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Storytelling Digital Channel Profile 302

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50