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. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. Large: Over 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo.

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Method Technique Reflection Exercise 127

Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Reflect your nonprofit’s company culture and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in your email content. Use automated personalization tools.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Digital content, including blog posts, videos, interviews, and constituent stories, will help to: Engage supporters and keep your organization on their minds. As your website grows and evolves, make sure your navigation bar still accurately reflects its structure. In the era of virtual fundraising, content is king.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this new book, the authors offer practical strategies and techniques to become an authentic leader and reveal how you can navigate your own path to success. These stories reflect more than 222 interviews with leaders–172 leaders interviewed for the original True North book, and more recently 55 interviews for the new book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

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. Let people know that you will be sharing four prompts in the chat and after one they should reflect on it, type in their answer but don’t send it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Yesterday, I honored to fill in as MC and interviewer for Darian Rodriguez Heyman at the Nonprofit Fundraising Masters event. (Darian was welcoming his first child, a boy, into the world!). Mike blocks out time for solo thinking and reflection on his calendar and they avoid scheduling meetings one day week (Friday).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Since many of the guests are from time zones that are far away, to make it convenient, I will pre-record a video interview for students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Showing Results: This method is for those have been applying listening techniques and want to track results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). I have a process where I do an "exit interview." If I had more bandwidth and if I had been more ambitious goals, I would have set up unique tracking URLs in bit.ly and tweeted these myself as well as ask the author to retweet with the unique URL. (See

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

This recent article on INC by Emily Triplett Lentz “ Breaking Your Bad Work Habits ” summarizes Duhigg’s framework on habit change – Cue, Routine, Reward as she reflects on how she applied it to some of her bad work habits like bouncing from email to slack to social media without accomplishing anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Authored by Capulet’s Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot, this report is based on in-depth interviews with leading practitioners and a literature review. Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo kindly offered to share this guest post to reflect on on the findings. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) So much so, that I'm taking a brief break from packing up boxes for our move across the country next week. I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Rheingold’s low-tech technique, a post-it note on your computer monitor, is a simple and elegant way to help train your attention. During the workshop in New Zealand, we discussed different methods for being mindful and what might apply to our practice. Here’s a recent interview with her in the Atlantic (by way of Rheingold).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker. This book will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

Now comes the reflection on the process, the craft of screencasting. For this screencast, I conducted several interviews lasting approximately 50 minutes. about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique. I didn't know the software like the back of my hand. I used a hybrid of his approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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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. Reflections. Spectragram. Living Case Study.

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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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

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. This session closed with a reflection of how they could apply tips and recommendations and use measurement to further test these ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. The moderator then interviews people at different points on the spectrum about the opinions they hold. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Stress reduction techniques. Ways to encourage individual and group reflection and learning. We are on a mission to identify and interview people who work for nonprofits about their stories of scaling self-care in their organizations. Managing technology and information overload. Effective team work habits and communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

I'm still dancing on the edges between action and reflection, but wanted to get down some of my evolving next action steps and questions for reflection. How can I improve my live blogging technique and better integrate with personal networking? It is hard, but if I don't do it now, I'm afraid I'll loose forever.

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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. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Here's a few reflections from people in the room. As Jeska Linden, Community Manager, for Linden Labs, said in her recent interview with me, "This isn't for all nonprofits. Well, I guess I just can't resist a pioneer's spirit, what can I say? Second Life requires a significant time investment to appreciate the potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

That's me interviewing Jonny Goldstein after he interviewed me. I asked him about shooting techniques. It's part of my series of video blogging famous video bloggers on technique (so far have interviewed or captured them in action -- Nick Booth , Steve Garfield , and Robert Scoble ).

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