Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 19, 2011

The process encourages stakeholders describe user profiles and what the site needs to meet their needs. Chris, who is a talented designer and visual facilitator, used a variety of techniques to help us brain storm, discuss, and flesh out the user scenarios. Three hours never went so fast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. And, of course, there is a pizza ordering slack bot.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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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. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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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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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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Allegiance Group

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. Think about the information that visitors to your site would be seeking first and foremost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

This post was also appeared on the MarketsforGood site as part of my regular column, “Between the Dashboard and the Chair.” Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast.

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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. I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. This session shared techniques and tools for making that process efficient. ” .

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Within 30 minutes, I registered a domain name, launched a fundraising site on CauseVox , and seeded it with key influencers on Twitter to help build momentum. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? We also leverage media opportunities to drive traffic to the campaign site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” And I love facilitating, designing, and delivering workshops on this topic! See above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange. In total, 19 organizations participated in 10 webinars.

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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. I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2012

ThinkShout is facilitating an NTC Drupal Day on April 3rd, 2012, the first day of the NTC. If you're interested in helping out with case studies or other planning/facilitation opportunities as part of the Drupal Day for Nonprofits, give Sean Larkin a shout !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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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. Program Design. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference favors networking opportunities over speaker-led sessions and utilizes the “Liberating Structures” facilitation technique to spark conversation and empower innovation. The “on-site” ticket prices ranged from $499 to $2,099 for AFP members; for non-members, the “on-site” price was $2,799.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. My personal blog was getting more hits than our organization's web site.". "We Aside from the brainstorm about tools, we heard some wonderful techniques that some participants were already using "blogging behind the firewall." Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset.

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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. For Chuck Collins, YMCA CEO, “It is all about the kids!”

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link]. Elements to include when studying techniques that inspire immediate action and applying those lessons: Analyze effective ad appeals – what motivates rapid response?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. You'll find lots of great resources over at Katrin's web site, mobileactive. I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. Their online services department is in charge of web site presence, email messaging, and social networking.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Many groups included in the report maintained blogs (either on their own site or elsewhere), but what the numbers above (and the effects listed below) indicate is that you don’t necessarily have to create your own blog to join the conversation. One organization had particular success using Twitter to facilitate its state policy work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

If you’re heading into 2020 unsure of the state of your site, it might be time for a refresh! Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. What are your goals for your site? Here’s what we’ll cover: Frontend elements of your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); tools and websites (circumvention techniques, online petitions and campaign.). the crackdown on web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site. conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. We will then post the winning (and approved) object to the Flickr site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

This video is from a local site in Louisville , part of the Annie E. Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute.

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