Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2015

Note from Beth: For the past two years, I’ve had the honor of facilitating a peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees who are hosting Giving Days. What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About the Giving Challenge – Guest Post by Susie Bowie. Follow the Giving Challenge using #GivingChallenge15 and online at [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. Lack of visibility online. Limited budget. Worldwide competition. Physical distance from audience. 2) Information Hub.

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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. Marcelo set up the overall context: How can NGOs effectively engage donors online in an ever-growing age of complexity and connectivity? The challenges: Explosion of online media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Google has launched Analytics Academy , a three-week online course t three-week course offers the basics for those seeking to understand the how to improve results through better digital measurement. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We asked participants to do a “think and write” and jot down one idea that resonated before facilitating a grand synthesis of what we learned about designing more impactful capacity building programs for grantees. You can read my guest post over the Communications Network Blog that summarizes these insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I didn’t do a complete unplug, as we’re so dependent on the Internet for information in navigate our daily lives, which is a huge change since I first got online in 1993. And, now with those beautiful sunsets behind me, I look ahead to 2015. I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year.

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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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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. People Yearn to Express their Love . Your job is to help them do so.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. When connecting with board members , consider how to persuade them that philanthropy facilitation is everyone’s job. It’s in your job description. It takes a village.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space? Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. Enter micro-learning, resources that can be quickly read, viewed, or consumed and take only ten minutes or less.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week, I became completely intoxicated with the online videos of Vi Hart , self-described mathemusician. She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. Khan Academy is interesting in itself as an online learning space. the way the best museums do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning.

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DipJar

AUGUST 6, 2020

Our goal is to make fundraising easier for our clients, whether it’s through our DipJar connected device or Spark , our online platform. The device enables cashless generosity for engaging, joyful, and frictionless donations while Spark allows you to capture more donations by promoting your giving campaign on any screen or online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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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. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Join us to examine where your community resides online using a mapping exercise, think about cross-channel best practices, and talk about examples of successful cross-platform community building. Workshop: Using Community Organizing for Effective Online Campaigns. Community Driven Social Impact.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering online user experience and messaging. Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Either way, nonprofits found they could ask for donations from these online platforms in multiple ways. .

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You’ve likely already dipped your toes into virtual volunteering, whether that includes incorporating more online opportunities or implementing a volunteer management solution. Take your onboarding online. Online document collection. It’s easy to share key documents online now, even if it’s just through email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

I participated in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop last fall where one of the participants was the thoughtful Nick Noakes who is the Associate Director for the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching at a university in Hong Kong. " He talks about the difficulty in removing the "geekiness."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. Before Box, it had problems with employees accessing content because its internal servers crashed frequently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers.

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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. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. The exercise teaches empathy. Second, assign someone in the room to be the “bridge facilitator.”

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Accept tithes online. Analysis shows that giving is shifting online. Giving your church members the ability to give tithes online actually grows tithes by 32%. That’s where accepting tithes online comes in. An easy way to track who is bringing which baked good is with a simple online event form. The problem?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

And it’s the best way I know to convey to non-development staff how important their role is in facilitating philanthropy. Your job is to facilitate philanthropy , and you know donors require honesty, transparency, and relevance before they give. That’s the only way to really appreciate what you’re asking donors to support.

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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 is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Illustration by Beth Kanter. That’s the theory at least.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Spin up a local virtual “bulletin board” where people with cars / online access can sign up to run errands on behalf of others. Facilitate virtual meetups, book clubs, and happy hours with special guests, like No Vet Alone is doing. – Plan a weekly “teach in” series about COVID facts and advice. DISEASE FOUNDATIONS.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach. Someone with a sense of humor who can see the big-picture to promote a positive environment and ground the experience. Determine how you will foster participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Who will facilitate? In a recent webinar for interested presenters, we talked about elements of a great proposal, an overview of the Conference, the CFP timeline and how to navigate the online CFP system. Complete every step in the online system and meet the submission deadline of November 8. Follow the guidelines.

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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. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. He also teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity courses. Schroeder calls this The LeanModel Framework.

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