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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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. Put it on a social site so all members of your team can add and access (a google document works great for this).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) 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.” I also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

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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? I feel it stifles learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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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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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Information from their fundraising efforts and traffic to their site is not sent to the CRM, leaving critical information behind. 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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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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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. My personal blog was getting more hits than our organization's web site.". "We Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

The user journey encompasses every step visitors take when they interact with your healthcare website, from when they first arrive on the site to when they click away. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Then, group individuals based on shared characteristics.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Your nonprofit only has a few moments to make a lasting impression on site visitors. To create a site that accurately represents your organization and stirs up passion for your cause, you’ll need to develop a web design strategy. Maintain a colour contrast ratio of at least 4:5:1 to facilitate a positive reading experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In addition, facilitated a peer learning exchange called “Solution Salon.” ” He routinely goes on site-visits into programs to see and understand the program’s impact. Mike blocks out time for solo thinking and reflection on his calendar and they avoid scheduling meetings one day week (Friday).

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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. As a trainer, what I've learned to do is wait until I arrive on site and make sense of it. This afternoon we played the Social Media Game. I hate that. That's all for now.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

Make sure your advertising materials reflect the exact activities that will take place and highlight how your donors’ support can help propel your mission forward. Consider creating a dedicated section or page about it on your site that walks prospective attendees through the sign-up process and day-of event details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

” I attended a fantastic workshop facilitated by Michelle Gislason , Senior Project Director, CompassPoint, called “ How to Fail Spectacularly (and What You Can Learn from It) ” Here’s a few key takeaways and resources. On Monday, I attended Compasspoint’s Nonprofit Day 2011.

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OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’re selling antiques, your decor should reflect that and be in the classical style. The second start of this brainstorming process is thinking about your target audience , which for the most part, will reflect on your theme. TV, Cameras, and WiFi: To facilitate a remote auction experience for everyone around the world! .

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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?

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Neglecting site design. Neglecting site design. But are you paying attention to your site’s design ? . That’s because your site is a direct reflection of your brand. To help your nonprofit brainstorm ways to improve site design, follow these tips: Design with visual hierarchy. Payment facilitators.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Members-only sites can be great places for members to connect and receive membership perks. They can also facilitate easy membership renewal Communication tools. Here are just a few benefits of creating and running a nonprofit membership program: Diversified and stable revenue stream. It should also list your membership tiers!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

Here’s a few reflections about presenting remotely in locations outside of the US. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space? Or you could use them to divide the room. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Take a look at the web site of any well-established nonprofit organization , and you'll probably see past invitations to these types of events or one for an upcoming event We're seeing the rise of social media to promote, organize, and in some cases hold the actual charity event itself. Britt Bravo has some terrific advice. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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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. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. This means there is little down time for reflection and thinking. Being Intentional About Your To Do List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. As part of my learning journey to put these ideas into practice, I’m integrating visual techniques into my facilitation repertoire. Two things I did. JD Lasica and I co-facilitated a workshop on measurement. Social Media Master Class.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Juneteenth is both an occasion for celebration and a moment for reflection. When I was a little boy, everybody went to DC to see the Capitol sites. I want everybody to come to Montgomery to see our sites. We have a project where we put up markers all across the country at lynching sites. So learning is the first thing.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For example, if you’re hosting a sports fundraising event , you can supplement your event with an online fundraising site to help you maximize support. Or, you might use mobile bidding software at an in-person auction to facilitate the smooth flow of donations.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

As Salesforce celebrates 20 years in business, the Nimble AMS team reflects on the reasons why associations benefit from an AMS built on Salesforce. Salesforce offers Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff. The benefits of having your member management software built on Salesforce. Transparency.

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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? What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Christi Tran, a capacity building consultant and site architect for the project, offered to write this post about her own experience and what ImpactRising.org hopes to accomplish. Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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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. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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