Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019!

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Ideally, your page should, in 30 seconds, make clear to donors the ins-and-outs of your cause through engaging text, enthralling photos, videos, and graphics. Make sure your donation page is ready to welcome the small screen, facilitating donations via mobile and enabling easy sharing of your page.

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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. Or the last photo in their phone.

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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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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

It lets you choose from Stripe or Moolah to facilitate online transactions, monthly gifts, or EFT donations. Kindful is another powerful donor-tracking software that facilitates online giving as a built-in feature. They close the loop by providing photos of each project taking place with a cost report showing how donations were spent.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Uplift the Story Owners Even when a nonprofit helps facilitate change in someone’s life, their story is still their story. Quote over a photo of a woman speaking. The quote reads: "Even when a nonprofit helps facilitate change in someone’s life, their story is still their story. " 13.

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Candid

MARCH 19, 2024

Photo credit: fizkes via gettyimages The post How to tell a compelling story with a Seal of Transparency appeared first on Candid Blog. Access to Foundation Directory : Does your nonprofit have a 2024 Gold Seal of Transparency and less than $1 million in annual revenue? You can access all of these resources for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Group selfie ice breakers in our facilitation meeting! Icebreakers Can Be Fun! Also, fun results!

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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! Group Photo. Too often, our participant surveys only focus on the first level. Formative Evaluation. Documentation.

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

It is not only appropriate and kind to facilitate the shift to equitable grantmaking practices; it’s unnecessary and inefficient to require every organization to walk the long road toward transformation. It will take a lot of practice, but that’s the point. Let’s reimagine “Practice makes perfect” to “Practice makes learning possible.”

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

You might also need to have one of your event managers monitoring the online forums in each session to monitor and facilitate the gamification. We highly recommend digital scavenger hunts and photo contests to up the ante in the online format! Consider photo contests from both in-person and online attendees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. Documents can be attached to a WhatsApp message in various forms, and photos and videos also make suitable attachments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). To facilitate this journey, ensure your site is optimized for telling your organization’s story. Resize your photos so they don’t appear distorted in the mobile view. ? Intuitive user experience.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 23, 2023

Make it easy to donate One of the key features of Greater Giving’s software is its ability to facilitate easy and secure online donations. You can include information about the event, photos, and videos, as well as customized calls-to-action to encourage donations.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

see the photo at the top). The pandemic has inspire a new breed of online collaboration apps that facilitate drop in video chatting for serendipitous conversations that your team might want to test. Adding some music makes it more fun. Here’s a list of dance music. Simulate the Office Water Cooler or Open Door Policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Add authenticity by using unposed images of real community members rather than stock photos. Tell compelling stories.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 2, 2020

Using Nimble AMS, your association can use Salesforce Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff. So, just as you might comment on someone’s photo in your Facebook feed, you can comment on the status of an event registration record.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Photo by Amanda/Flicker. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. I am thrilled to be presenting with my colleague, Ananda Leeke in Boston next week at the Resilience at Work Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. 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. I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Social fundraising campaigns allow donors to rally around individuals through status updates, photos, videos and more. Tools that allow participants to create individual or team fundraising pages and share updates on social media facilitate this. The key is making participation fun and frictionless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. I haven't yet seen any case-studies or how-to posts with advice to free agent fundraisers or nonprofits on how to organize or facilitate this a "Charity 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The above photo shows their conference room where they have staff meetings. When discussing the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , people in Finland have figured out keeping calm versus fire drill culture.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

They say : “They need to see we’re effective and happy photos show that.”. They say : “I don’t need data and testing; I’ve been doing this for years, and people tell me they love our photos.”. They take you on a journey, explaining points of interest along the way and facilitating the act of discovery. Guides are respectful.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Participants can download an app to submit photos, videos, and text answers proving that they’ve completed challenges or deciphered clues. An app-based scavenger hunt can also facilitate a hybrid event if you have participants who are more comfortable virtually attending. Pumpkins or other Halloween décor sales.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events. But, someone raises a concern about not having permission to share photos of each participant, and your fraternity decides not to share the images out of caution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

.” Others offered some good practical advice: Post an unusual (but relevant) photo. Post some inspiring New Year messages and photos to let people know we’re back after holidays. That always gets folks talking and sharing. Get that editorial calendar up and running.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This can include heartfelt notes, stories, or even photos to make the dedication uniquely meaningful. It enhances the donor experience and ensures that tribute details are captured accurately, facilitating meaningful connections and gratitude.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Photo by George Galanais. I’ll be doing a session with colleagues Danette Peters and Roberto Cremonini on Outcomes, Impact, and Communication where will not only share some case studies and techniques for outcome-based evaluation, but model some small group facilitation techniques for the process. SXSW: March 7, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook. Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. Use images in every communication #21CapitalCamp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources.

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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). I am excited for a return visit to Australia. May 13, 2013: Meeting with NZ Funders.

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