Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

Truly effective leaders are also distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Emotional Intelligence is a flexible skill that can be readily acquired and practiced. Self-Management Skills. Inside Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Jana will share some techniques such as mind mapping and sketchnotes as well as share the different options for tools – both analog (paper and markers) and digital (ipad).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2012

This session will teach you some techniques that you can immediately put into practice and help you work more efficiently and effectively, enabling you to achieve more in less time and ultimately increase the return of your efforts. The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources.

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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. In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment? Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

My rituals include: 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. In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results.

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Not only do volunteers build capacity through their people power, skills, and networks, but volunteers are more likely to make charitable donations and, among high net worth donors , 84% give to all, most, or some of the organizations where they volunteer. How many clients are they reaching, even if virtually? leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I was honored to write a feature article in the recent issue of the NTEN journal called “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Reducing Information Overload.” ” I’ll be doing a FREE webinar on Thursday, July 12 at 11 am PST to walk you through the idea and practices described in the area.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. Have any techniques to add to this list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Can participants apply the skills?” Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. If you’ve been through weight watchers, you’ll immediately make a connection to some of the techniques he suggests. To increase digital literacy of our communities with good digital literacy skills.

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Literacy Chapter Journal Teach 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The people with skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal , Laura shared why she is releasing the curriculum and the basic frameworks. To provide any giver—donating any amount of time, money, experience, skills or networks—with free access to research, learning and experience I’ve developed over the last two decades as a strategic philanthropist.

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Giving Philanthropy Teach Student 98

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Classic: Video that uses classic editing techniques so that proper tone and context are provided. Documentary: A style of video journalism that documents events chronologically. Edgy: A more eye-catching video technique that might use unique angles or stylish edits to create a final product. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. They are content areas but also skills. Saying no is a muscle that needs to be exercised daily. This year I’m incorporating a couple of techniques. What I have learned?

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Reflection Technique Journal Teach 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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Arts Literacy Brain Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Becoming certified as an orange hat is recognition of commitment and skill–it’s a real accomplishment. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. from MIT in rocket science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2015

” Whether this is writing in a journal, coloring in an adult coloring book, yoga, meditation, listening to music, or walking, she does something for herself. For her, she likes having the freedom of choice, although she tends to lean on journaling techniques like Bullet Journaling.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. [Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. I also like the metaphor of a sommelier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Learning agility is valuable skill because it can help organizations get to better outcomes, especially when it becomes embedded into organizational culture and systems for continuous learning and improvement. The article suggests that the skill of self-reflection is the secret sauce for learning how to become an agile learner.

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Reflection Method Nonprofit Leadership 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. Technical Skills and Tools. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1.

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Music Video Journal QuickTime 50

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Classic: Video that uses classic editing techniques so that proper tone and context are provided. Documentary: A style of video journalism that documents events chronologically. Edgy: A more eye-catching video technique that might use unique angles or stylish edits to create a final product. .

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Virtual Camera Video Professional 52

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. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . Tags: Information Coping Skills streamline. I've been looking for ways to reduce techno stress. The new framing for this familiar issue is one of balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Her journal/blog is here. They teach them life skills and educate them to be self-sufficient. Your $20 would provide surgeons at a hospital overseas with a SIGN technique manual - a way to make sure that these surgeons use the correct methods to give their patients the best treatment. Suggested by Ann, Ashima, and Maria.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The thesis of the book is that as technology becomes more pervasive in our work and personal lives, interpersonal skills become more essential. 3) The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future by Ryder Carroll. The book also outlines principles and techniques for impact measurement.

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Italy Journal Storytelling Nonprofit 130

AccelEvents

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Depending on the skill of the video production team, you’ll be able to choose from some of the following videography styles : Cinematic. Video that uses classic editing techniques so that proper tone and context are provided. A style of video journalism that documents events chronologically. Documentary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

With so many people, it was a challenge to make this Webinar interactive, but there was a lot of discussion in the chat and some online activities. One important skill of the curator is to provide context, so I started with sharing my lens on this topic. Evolution of the Web Infographic (hat tip Dirk Slater - click for Source).

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Depending on the skill of the video production team, you’ll be able to choose from some of the following videography styles : Cinematic. Video that uses classic editing techniques so that proper tone and context are provided. A style of video journalism that documents events chronologically. Documentary.

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Video Camera Virtual Stream 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2019

And, he teaches that skill set in his new book, The Synergist -- How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success. And, finally, in Part 3 , McKeown provides you the tools and techniques, as the Synergist, to consciously and in an accelerated and structured way bring success to the group.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Today, we're excited to announce the all-new list for 2017! State/Local.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

And, he teaches that skill set in his new book, The Synergist -- How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success. And, finally, in Part 3 , McKeown provides you the tools and techniques, as the Synergist, to consciously and in an accelerated and structured way bring success to the group.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2012

And, he teaches that skill set in his new book, The Synergist -- How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success. And, finally, in Part 3 , McKeown provides you the tools and techniques, as the Synergist, to consciously and in an accelerated and structured way bring success to the group.

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