Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Use ChatGPT to design and conduct surveys and market research. Leverage ChatGPT to generate reports, articles, and newsletters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. Here they are: My Three Rituals. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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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. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. This technique is simple.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. Research and advocacy: Conduct research on the state of local journalism, produce reports, and advocate for policies that support the industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. The same holds true for walking meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. I will be taking my dream workshop – a workshop on methods for facilitating innovation using human-centered design principles from the masters at Luma Institute. LUMA Institute: March 19-20th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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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. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

In addition, Double the Donation research indicates that individuals are more likely to give if they know a matching gift is available⁠. or gamification techniques (e.g., Plus, it can be as easy as leaving a collection box at a corporate office or store and facilitating pick-up after the drive has run its course.

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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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APRIL 24, 2014

By separating these two layers, researchers and inventors of the this innovative technology claim it simplifies networking, and will make simplify large scale networking issues in the long run. It is of course referring to the large sets of data that help nonprofit organizations find trends through predictive modeling techniques.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Thorough understanding leads to big ideas. Creativity matters only if it sells.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

One of the speakers, Professor Jen Shang, who later did a deeper dive into her research report ” “ Tomorrow’s Philanthropy: Insights into the Future of Philanthropic Innovation.” Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. Will Coley , comes to the topic understanding how activists and activist organizations are using the techniques as part of their content and engagement strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. This book looks at standard secondary education practices and adapts them based on scientific research about how the brain learns. by Eric Jensen. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. Monitors, listens, and researches the people in their network. I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. Social Media Master Class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep! How To Get More Likes and Shares on Facebook – Based on Research. Buddy Media: Twitter Optimization.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. Peter summarizes Dr. Carol Dweck, a professor at Stanford’s research on the topic. It keeps you from being creative, stops us, but here is a technique to get past it: The failure bow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. As, incorporating secondary research is part of the process. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. Do you us mindfulness techniques like meditation, taking walks, or other ‘low tech” methods to help you focus or do you rely on “calming” technology tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? How have you used social media to personalize your interactions with potential supporters? Does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. According to research, 55% of the message you convey comes from your body language. Reflective Listening Techniques. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Observe and Understand Body Language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. Once you understand your own behavior and a technique for letting go of failure, you need to understand other people in your organization and establish this as a way of working.

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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

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results. Check in with Your Peers.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

The Strategies We’ll Cover: Clean Your Donor Database Perform Prospect Research Look to Your Donor Database Check Planned Giving Donors Clean Your Donor Database What Is This Strategy? Impact 4 Ways to Expertly Manage Donor Data 9 min read Read Now Perform Prospect Research What Is This Strategy? Why Implement It?

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