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. 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.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. The primary roles are idea generators and facilitators. Give everybody a turn.

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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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.orgSource

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. A machine-learning bot will require more technical expertise including utilizing algorithms and natural language processing techniques. There are two types of chatbots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question. You put three people into each breakout room.

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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. Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Integrated functionality is critical for nonprofit virtual engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. This is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. A structured process has a number of benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Here’s a write of this technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first?

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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. Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding).

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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. 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.

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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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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. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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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. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service.

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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. Format Templates and Cheat Sheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). How do these networks evolve over time?

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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. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Reflective Listening Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. Perhaps we are confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ? How do you make sense?

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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

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. Implementation.

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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. .” Sometimes easier said than done!).

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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 ! Email Brendan to add it to your registration. 10:45-11am: Break.11-12

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

One topic they discussed the challenge of networked governance and leadership and mentioned that they’d be holding this convening to talk about to “smush&# the two networks together and have the networks design the best governance structure. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. The started with some big picture frames.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Working in an institutional setting is far more structured, formal, more face-to-face meetings, slower paced, and less porosity.

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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.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there. I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work. Bookshare managers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

People like to be connectors, they like to be of importance and they love to see their facilitation yield fruition. Now, there is extensive literature on effective networking techniques that are tested and true (I implore you to Google “effective networking”; it’s exhausting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

She's Geeky provided the structure or container, we all got to personalized what we giving to one another and what getting in return. I facilitated a session on working in the nonprofit sector, with colleague Liz Perry , who is a sketch blogger and works an instructional technology specialist in a nonprofit school. Laurie Rae.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. They understand that strong compensation structures are essential for building a scalable, sustainable organization that retains its talent and grows year over year. Breakout session and workshop facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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