Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I’ve been experimenting with a lot of models for workshop delivery and curriculum for social media. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a two-part session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Weave reflection Into Meetings: Incorporate formalized reflection activities such as “ After Action Reviews ” for large projects and campaigns. Another way to practice reflection is to incorporate a five minute reflection at the end of every meeting to reflect on meeting norms. Rituals to Build Relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is why it is important for leaders to encourage staff to reflect on their workflow processes and to encourage experimentation as described below. Experimentation should feel like playful, be fun and create a sense of wonder. Nonprofit leaders must be intentional and thoughtful about taking the first steps to AI adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. We came up with some really practical and useful models. I introduced them to the idea of walking and movement as work and incorporated some fun energizers that celebrated Latin American culture.

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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. With International trainings, it is always fun to have participants share a song or dance from one’s home country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

As the facilitator you can model it with brevity – it should be no more than 30 seconds. In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. Another one is to have folks share something that is meaningful or fun on their desk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.) The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructional design is embedding opportunities for this to happen.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. What is ChatGPT?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. And of course, we’d have fun while we did all of these things. It reflects best practices in adult learning and provides a framework that results in positive change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the luxury chocolate brand, Green & Black’s, Jo Fairley is an inspirational businesswoman who paved the way for others to follow her sustainable business model. Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Have some fun. After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. So, what did these resilient role models have in common? They believe that stress will enhance their ability to grow and improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. I modeled that I don't know everything. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

So, instead of a multi-year strategic plan that tries to foretell the future, NTEN uses the Real-Time Strategic Plan model, which focuses on clarifying what we do, how we do it, and what is most important to us in making decisions. You can see the full board and everyone’s biographies on the website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

It’s a mix of serious and fun content. When not in a disaster, you might see LOLcats doing CPR. Wendy is a real team player and made the session a lot of fun! We explored people’s listening routines, perceptions about the value of listening, and specific tools and techniques. They had social content.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

Remember, with the dropshipping model, you only pay for what you sell. Define your mission, vision, and values: Your branding should always reflect the mission, vision, and values of your organization. Choose a color palette that reflects the personality of your organization. Adding more products to your collection can’t hurt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

It also has been fun to reflect back on training sessions I’ve designed and facilitated over the past 2 decades as working as trainer in the nonprofit technology area. Over the last few years, I’ve used my blog as a transparent reflection tool. Reflection from #NTC2014 on Instructional Design.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 8, 2020

For the next two years, I continued to reflect on my nonprofit experience and talk with colleagues still in the sector. to disrupt the traditional accounting model through technology, innovation and a radically client-centered approach to finance. And we’re actually fun to be around ? It was all just too much for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2017

We discussed the importance of leadership modeling and supporting a culture of wellbeing. Her CEO recently wrote a post reflecting on their wellness efforts on the organization’s blog and she agreed generously to republish this post as a guest post. Fun to have your CEO join your Workweek Hustle group!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The opening plenary was both fun and informative – an improv company “performed” the results of GEO’s latest research on the relationship between grantmaking practices and grantee success. Besides creating the conditions for grantees to be more successful, making these changes just might free up time to spend on learning and reflection.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

This is a great conference to learn from experts about smart earned-revenue models, and about how the CSR world at for-profit companies operates. . It’s a fun, laid-back conference where folks who love nonprofit communications finally feel seen. Networking happens between sessions and at the opening day after-party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

But, I’ll get to birthday fun in a minute. It was a fun way to spend part of my birthday! . Reflection on your past practice is a great way to start a new project that builds on the same skills and ideas. Transparency is one of the ideas and, of course, we’ll be modeling this. This year my birthday (Jan.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At its best, a nonprofit fundraising event is fun. Calculating indirect costs can be tricky; here’s one model to help you out. Reflect on ways to reduce the burden on staff. I confess to having a love/hate relationship with fundraising events. I love them as a major donor cultivation tool, but I hate them for everything else!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

It's not easy to do because it requires balancing action with reflection. Keep It Happy, Keep It Fun, Keep A Deadline, Keep It Urgent: I try as much as possible to have fun with these campaigns. This is reiterative learning. I think it works. Which is a fantastic thing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

As some of you know, during the 40 days before I turned 40, I did a daily practice of moving, playing, reflecting and connecting. They want to write "morning pages," meditate, exercise, blog, cook dinner, make art, stretch, drink 8 glasses of water, eat healthier, and give thanks more often (sound familiar?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings. The Yemen Team has some additional reflections on their workshop blog.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

The event gives passionate supporters a way to breathe and reflect. All participants receive a virtual Earth Day kit with a face mask, trash bags, information to clean up litter in the local community, and some fun stickers. CELI also hosts an annual 5K Run for Clean Energy every spring to support their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. This’ll be a fun one. . That’s just a quick fun fact for you. Thanks for being here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

We know that attending a virtual event isn’t always the most fun. Sometimes, frustrations pop up when event attendees are unsure where to go or they don’t feel that the space is reflective of how the event will be. With an intuitive virtual event platform , it doesn’t take much to add the extra virtual element to an already live event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference. That’s the theory at least.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

We collaborated with Ze to develop activities throughout the weekend that were lightweight, fun, and encouraged low-key social interaction--exactly the kinds of activities that we have found encourage social bridging with strangers. Participants who felt more confident modeled generous behavior and engaged others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). Evaluation should also include your personal reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. I might have them sit and discuss a small group exercise, but the results are on the wall for a standing debrief. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Here’s some examples.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

We know that attending a virtual event isn’t always the most fun. Sometimes, frustrations pop up when event attendees are unsure where to go or they don’t feel that the space is reflective of how the event will be. With an intuitive virtual event platform , it doesn’t take much to add the extra virtual element to an already live event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Our values reflect this commitment. Random fun from the IFYC “giddy committee.”. How does your organization’s leadership model and support it? Some of our most popular perks include: Accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year. 5 floating holidays and 7 fixed holidays per year. Have story?

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