Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise. I decided to model it and take advantage to learn in public from talented co-facilitators to keep the energy up during the small group activity.

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Social Media Reflection Network Strategy 82

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. While Jim and I explained clearly to Wild Idea proposers what they needed to do to submit their project for consideration before MuseumNext, we didn't give them enough support in actually facilitating their group brainstorming at the event. Tags: professional development. You did great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. It's an opportunity for some reflection about what the story means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist. I admit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Training Design isconf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people? Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting? That is one reason why I always incorporate a reflection at the end that helps participates identify one small action step.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey. Tags: training materials. Somethings to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? s feelings of ???responsibility???

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

This includes an optimized website that’s mobile-friendly and easy to navigate, strategic use of search engine optimization (SEO) to increase visibility during times of high public interest, and an established monthly giving program to facilitate the transition from one-time to recurring donations. Tag and thank them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I leave Romania early in the morning and I'm probably too tired to be writing something called a reflection, but I better do it now or risk loosing it. That's an important feature of doing these process - having some folks in the audience who can facilitate a group. tags: socialmedia web2.0 ). That's all for now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. One of the reflections. Tags: backchannel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negative comment? The product is a diagram or a series of diagrams like the one above for a large nonprofit facilitated by Steve Heye that outlines the steps. Tag and flag. First response. When not to respond.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Let's take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. Tags: america giving challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. One might think that it would be difficult to sustain a truly interactive experience, but the way Ethan and Rebecca facilitated - it was an intense day-long conversation. tag: [link]. Technorati tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. One value of a blog is at least I captured my reflections from several months ago and a workflow diagrams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. But, there were great questions. Now, that has never happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Tags as a metric. What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. During the World Cafe, we broke into small groups of 4 or 5 and discuss these three questions: What do we do when things go wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax. You ask each person to introduce themselves and to briefly answer a question that can build a common bond. These might be questions such as: Describe how and when you came to work at this organization. 4) Meet and Greet: Word Cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

As your nonprofit grows and develops, you’ll need to continue training to ensure your software also reflects your needs. The following questions should help: Research the features available from each nonprofit software solution. Be sure to request a demo for each of your top options, and don’t be afraid to ask questions along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

If you have taken on the role of community manager or are tasked with online facilitation of a community, network, or group and want to see how and if social technologies fit, this is the workshop to take. . For the first Connected Futures workshop almost a year ago, I led a field trip to the NpTech Tag Community and participated as faculty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Can blog communities be facilitated? The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation. The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. " -- on the second post I pointed the nonprofit tagging conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. . The important question is to ask, "to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Think about some of the changes reflected by this typewriter, manufactured by E. The adoption of the typewriter, at just the same time that women began to work in offices, reflected changes in women's roles, new ideas about the organization of work, and the rapidly growing corporations of the day. Tags: change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

I'm connecting it to the questions that came up on yesterday's Community Squared telephone conference to discuss tagging communities and got onto the topic of how online communities are changing given Web2.0. I used the metaphor of a school of fish swimming together in a tag stream.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? Multiple-choice assessments are those that pose a question with three to five accompanying responses. Learners are asked to choose the one correct answer that aligns with the question asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.". I appreciated Sally’s post on the topic of active learning and the questions she has posed are similar ones we challenge ourselves with at the Packard Foundation. Are we meeting them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My reflections are here. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Tags: backchannel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. A big question is how do you get people in your organization to value this learning versus viewing it as a failure or waste?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. I used to help me with some preparation for tomorrow's presentation on tagging. Update: Some more reflection on it. brief reflection after a meeting Do you have a free for all? I had to play with it.

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