Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. What you know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. 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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Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

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. You’ll only get click-throughs, signups, and applications if you simplify the process of taking the next step for your recipients. Use automated personalization tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders. Amiable Style people show their emotions openly and prefer to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. questions) that are similar and shared by many funders.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

The answer to that last question is almost certainly your website. Offer intuitive options , like recurring gifts and email sign-ups, directly in the donation process. The best nonprofit websites prioritize user experience at every step in the donation process. Is it easy for them to find what they need?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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Learning Free Reflection Model 93

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT (Chat Generated Paragraph Techniques) is an advanced natural language processing tool to provide information and cobble content together based on prompts entered by a user. Lastly, nonprofits can use ChatGPT to improve the creative process by sparking new ideas. What is ChatGPT? Because I am!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” ” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with my fellow track facilitators to design the process that we will lead the participants in our track through. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas. What are the points of pain, strengths, and opportunities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It is tempting to think of this step as only doing a survey to answer the questions, “Did the workshop accomplish its objectives? But, if you use reflection, documentation,pilot tests, and iteration, it is like tasting your soup while there’s still time to make adjustments. I use both. Use Learning Theory.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

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. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. Year in Review.

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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. Both ideas were new, so it took a little bit of adaption of the templates and techniques, but we managed to come up with something useful for all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people? Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting? Hashtag Stats.

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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. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure.

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He provides you proven techniques, workshop processes, real-world case studies and examples and insightful observations from business leaders and his own career – which includes 20 years as an executive at IBM and CFO positions at Cisco and Red Hat. Calderoni Question: What inspired you to write your book?

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Culture Companies Cisco Government 52

Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

AI is the process of using computers to help perform tasks automatically that could previously only be done by humans. To do this, we use a process called machine learning that allows us to “teach” computers how to tackle these tasks. Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise. I asked the "very comfortable" people the following question: What was your ah ha moment with social media, when you understood its power and benefit to your movement/network? .

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Social Media Reflection Network Strategy 82

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. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Often, these types of questions focus on failure or betray that the questioner has an agenda.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Each section lists best practices and processes for being a digital nonprofit. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Participants volunteer their question for the Spectragram.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC. How much do you retain?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. What question do they want to answer by the end of the day? Connecting Up Master Class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Evaluation is not about getting to a best practice that can be spread around the world in a standardized way and to answer the question, “Is everyone following the recipe?” New questions, challenges, and opportunities for success are emerging. A willingness to engage about what to do to make your program better.

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Evaluation Generation Method Slides 97

Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2021

When deciding to conduct research with a population, it is necessary to reflect on the timing and impact on participants before moving forward: Is the research we are conducting essential to carrying out the mission of the organization? Who has previously been included in research samples in the past? Who has been excluded from these samples?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent webinar, we gave answers to some of the GA4 FAQs we’ve been asked and showed partners a step-by-step process to getting started. Here we’ll summarize those questions and answers. If you’re currently using UA on your website, Google has developed the ‘GA4 Setup Assistant’ which will guide you through the process.

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

More recent books on these methods include Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo and Visual Meetings by David Sibbet (I took David Sibbet’s workshop on visual meeting facilitation and wrote up some reflections here.). Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects.

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Facilitation Arts Pakistan Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. To guide the sitemap revision process and introduce new ways of thinking about content relationships and groups. I’ve had success with an online recruiting tool called Ethnio that serves your website visitors a pop-up with a few screener questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. .

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

How people think and process information are one set of theories that include multiple intelligences , learning styles , and constructivism. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138