sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, grants to create publicly available data sets or data training for marginalized groups or under resourced organizations do not by themselves lead to equitable outcomes. Storytelling Storytelling has also become a prominent concept connected to data processes in philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Then about six months ago, I stumbled into a professional training environment. The first training I went to was on Public Narrative, led by master facilitator Sarah El-Raheb. Public Narrative is an activist storytelling technique for rallying others to your cause. It was intense, extremely well-facilitated, and meaty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell, Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. Next thing we know, this happened. It was followed by this: 4. Until one day, x happened: 5.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recruiting and onboarding new employees is far more costly than retaining existing trained employees. Before we go over how to implement new strategies to engage employees, let’s discuss the challenges many businesses and nonprofits face when it comes to employee engagement, such as: Insufficient training. Impact storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Training Design. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Social media content mirrors other channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

Yesterday, I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens. What I love most about taking a “we approach” to training is that I get to participate and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. An experiment is the DS106 (an online course on Digital Storytelling) that is a “ headless course ,’ or one without a teacher, although the curriculum/syllabus was created by an instructor.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs focus on storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Successful road trip stops might be happy hours, documentary screenings, panel discussions, organizing workshops, site visits, or volunteer trainings. Drawing national attention to an important issue (and a good bit of recognition for your organization the process).

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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 first was a free general admission ticket that included access to all live keynotes, sessions, workshops, and networking events.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I'm facilitating a number of storytelling projects in an attempt to measure the effectiveness of how dollars raised are being used to create social change. She's currently working on a book on measurement with KD Paine.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. for this one hour talk show series with leaders in the nonprofit social video field sharing their storytelling tips, production budgets, viral. including: a product matching program, storytelling trainings, social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Earlier this month I co-facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about storytelling with data from Alexandra Samuel.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

" Its purpose was to train students to experiment with, understand, and share art using social media and face-to-face interaction. An interactive map app was also collaboratively created by the community as a social experiment to facilitate user experience. Dan Meager ( @DiabloBallet ) used Twitter to crowdsource the first ballet.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Research / @SSIReview.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

With CTAs, you can help to facilitate that user’s initial giving journey. Learn more about visual storytelling from Ira on the sgENGAGE Podcast. This same train of thought can be applied to your other audiences, like past donors and active supporters.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

They Need More Training Most new board members don’t have fundraising experience. Nonprofit leadership and experienced board members must work together to train new members. Nearly all of them will require training, and that training will be most effective when done on an ongoing basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

For the two months leading up to my brief vacation, I've been doing a lot of training and presenting - chewing on some lessons learned from the America's Giving Challenge , Social Media ROI , and Cute Dogs. How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? kszentmih??lyi

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They are natural storytellers and advocates for your organization. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. We provided a solicitation training and toolkit. And I can talk a little bit about the solicitation training in a moment. They can help with follow-up. Stewardship.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. If you work with a tech consultant to make upgrades, make sure they give your team full documentation and training as needed. Sharing updates and information on your campaigns or projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. This will go hand in hand with the training work I do. Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? I also like to practice my storytelling skills. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

But of course, the real officers go through years of training. In live action games, this role can be assumed by the facilitator, who can seamlessly slip into helplessness (to give the player the authority) when the player is ready to be the expert. Tags: storytelling game visitors. Where have you seen this work well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Further research revealed that the organization does economic development work while training people in the community in entrepreneurship. Here is how I would state the mission for greater clarity: We train people in entrepreneurship and provide access to capital to open small businesses. Sounds good, but what do they actually do?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Would volunteers benefit from a training manual? You end the story with a “kicker” stating how much time Stu has been spending in the gym lifting weights and training, because his new dream is to win a medal at next year’s national Special Olympics alpine event. Your volunteer coordinator writes training manuals.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Keynote presentations, workshops, roundtable sessions, and interactive forums will cover a variety of topics across nine training tracks. It uses special facilitation techniques to stimulate conversations among guests and unleash the potential for guests to emerge as leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. So, armed with an improvised mobile wireless mic, I used an Oprah style facilitation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. She’s got an awesome YouTube channel where she does a lot of free trainings as well. And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? That’s a tip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation. We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. This year’s work will build on this past year.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And finally, you want to identify the roles needed to create, facilitate, and implement the programs and services you design with the community. Whether it’s social media platforms or content that has captured the interest of the community – from citizen journalism to video storytelling. At least if you plan on interacting with them!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Successful crowd funding depends on great storytelling. My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). Social Strategies.

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