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. I also keep in mind dips in the circadian rhythms for humans that have impact on their ability to pay attention and learn – and I design different types of activities accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” While their answers and anecdotes were different, one simple technique or theme came across: “Stay connected to the source of your work.” That’s her cue to go out side for a walk, get away from the screen, and have some reflection time to think the impact of her fundraising beyond the dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. It reminds of the “Mindful Conversation” exercise described in “ Search Inside Yourself ,” yet another way to practice mindfulness but not just within yourself, but with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Rami Al-Karmi , Founder and CEO of Shabakat , Al Ordon (JordanNet) and is serving as the E-Mediat Strategic Adviser for the Jordan In-Country Team shared some lessons about working as networked ngo. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#.

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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. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . One of the questions that also came up in my mind was: What's the difference between a community of practice and a network? Network maps are "talking documents" or prompts for reflection and strategizing. How technical?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium is to highlight current best practices, lessons learned from the field, and trends in effective nonprofit and philanthropic board leadership, as well as board recruitment and retention. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. Research / @ARNOVA.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Through inspiring keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakouts, hands-on lessons, and tons of networking, you will learn how the INBOUND experience, and especially our content, is truly remarkable. Mexico / SOLD OUT. 11/28/2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. Objective.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Ben, isn’t the popcorn thing blowing your mind? And so one of the things that has been such a big lesson, and an aha, and also a gift is when I started putting people first and then getting to the goal once I understood how to get my folks motivated, activated, interested, and owning the work that they did, like the sky opened up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work.

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