Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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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. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. His response: Looking: Observing human experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. Look at the following: (1) Does it have an intuitive navigation structure? (2)

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach. What level of interest and incentives to learn and implement evaluation are present?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. Development.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. Create a folder structure that categorizes your daily fundraising responsibilities. Manage geographically dispersed staff and beneficiaries by creating folder structures with content specific to regional offices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. (I I can’t facilitate peer learning groups, design/write curriculum, or coach unless I’ve had the experience myself). My answer: Yes!

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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? Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This was initially a struggle, as the lack of face-to-face interaction makes it much harder to teach concepts and learn about a new role. Along with a total rewards approach to compensation, you also should consider other ways to recognize employee work, like incentive plans , an increasingly popular type of employee compensation structure.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

The environmental scan phase looks at the external market: who the association’s competition is, what the target market wants, if there is a market for the content being provided, what type of pricing structure to enact, and more. Virtual event planning.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

While the talk may encompass serious topics, the attitude is light and the conversation is not structured or overly guided. In contrast, cultural institutions often implicitly discourage conversation, particularly loud and boisterous talk, and when conversation is encouraged it is often highly structured around a particular topic or program.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The simulation is structured to give students information, then a binary choice. If the point of the Discovery Center is to teach students the facts of the Grenada invasion, it's reasonable to create a program in which there's a right and wrong answer about what happened in history. Then more information, then another binary choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. That is the “Sage on the Stage&# model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants). I use what the host uses.

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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. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Research / @SSIReview.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball. They can share samples of their writing to illus­trate key concepts such as simplicity and clarity, and they can teach tips on editing and proofreading. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts. It’s all very humbling.

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Tips Nonprofit Sample Skills 94

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? The other thing that you’re going to do to facilitate that conversation is you’re going to. That’s how we facilitate it. . Is your agenda structured in a way that board education is included on every board meeting for 20 minutes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Governance.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. Do we have a clear structure? Move aside, Julie. I appreciate that as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

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," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. You want someone who is open to learning and a good listener and can teach others network weaving skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. In most cases simple syntax structure is used. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. Teaching in an international context. When teaching in different contexts, especially outside of the US, you need to make some adjustments to your context.

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. And Paris, you are so right.

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