Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. If you are curious about more techniques, I suggest David Staker’s “ Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. She was brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Leaving for my first in-person event in 2022 after two years of pandemic shut down. Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. I also use them a lot when I doing full-day trainings. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. This technique is simple.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. This is an opportunity to give your brand a personality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. The same goes for in-person meetings. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. Six Fun Nonprofit Icebreakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. .” Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning.

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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. ” .

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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. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person. Design for Participants To Apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out. A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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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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MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders.

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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. Nothing like first-person accounts. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. I ask them to generate a list of keep, tweak, and delete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment?

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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 use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed?

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

Whether you are running an online event, hybrid event, or in-person, consider these event gamification ideas easy wins: Interact To Win Points. Personalization With Badges, Pins, and Trophies. Team games are also perfect for webinars or training sessions as they will improve your attendee’s ability to learn. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Then about six months ago, I stumbled into a professional training environment. The first training I went to was on Public Narrative, led by master facilitator Sarah El-Raheb. Public Narrative is an activist storytelling technique for rallying others to your cause. It was intense, extremely well-facilitated, and meaty.

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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

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Hybrid events, events that include both in-person and virtual elements, have been a rising trend for the last several years, but restrictions on gathering in recent months have made them a possible solution for current or future events. . You need to find a venue that will house the in-person sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. We two more exercises to learn about their personal and organizational social media use - a stand up and sit down exercise. I've known since 2005 and I realized that.

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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

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

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. This word cloud is from a virtual workshop I facilitated asking participants what the barriers to effective virtual meetings are: technology, engagement, connectivity, and participation. Follow an organized line up to ensure each person has a chance to respond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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