Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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? Overnight Reflection. I’ve done many multiple day, intense training sessions. What I think is the magic is the use of “overnight reflection.”

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. What gave me joy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Design for Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post takes a deeper dive into meeting and training icebreakers and check-ins. This post takes a deeper dive into meeting and training icebreakers and check-ins. Hat tip/ Jen Bokoff ).

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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. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques. See below for more detail on the techniques.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2021

Many valuable resources of the organizations are then spent on recovering from turnover including recruiting, hiring, and training new talent. Leadership strategies and changes: It is critical to recognize that changes to basic leadership structures can have a significant impact on employee satisfaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. The New Social Economy. This session was a high level view of what is happening in the ecosystem in which I do my work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. Machine learning models that make predictions to answer their questions usually need labeled training data. Labeled training datasets can be tricky to obtain and often require creativity and human labor to create them manually before any machine learning can happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti. No matter the approach, it is useful to have a structured approach and track trends over time. They had social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. Ask Good Questions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there. Thanks to Anna for saying yes, and for sharing her experiences!

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It is important to establish a clear direction as to what you want these new structures to accomplish. This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique. Clear Direction. Don’t just enable social features for the sake of having them. Then, encourage visitation of past posts and inspire discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Photo by Beth Kanter. Including some posts that have appeared on this blog.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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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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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn strategies, tools and techniques to enhance your individual leadership style and talents. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Leading Forward 2018.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. The visual design of your website should be bold and accurately reflect your organization’s brand or identity. If you work with a tech consultant to make upgrades, make sure they give your team full documentation and training as needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. Communication tools are appropriate given member skills.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Through a mix of session formats, speakers from inside and outside our sector, structured networking, and informal discussions with peers, participants will explore ways to design and implement evaluation and learning approaches that generate stronger information, decisions and performance. The Learning Conference 2019. May 29 - 30.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

Non-game social platforms like museums should use game design techniques to make these institutions more successful at supporting user happiness. Many industries have adopted “serious games” for use in training, but Jane is talking about pervasive gaming, gaming that is integrated into “real” life and work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Using statistics and modeling techniques, predictive analytics helps predict future outcomes. Here’s a few things to be aware of: Potential biases – AI algorithms are only as good as the data that is used to train them. If the data used to train an AI algorithm contains biases, the resulting output can reflect these biases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. I love designing and delivering trainings on social media and the added challenge of working outside of the US. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2014

Others have a preference for directed learning, a formal structured course. It is not just about an individuals self-directed learning but also groups of self-learners or peer learning cohorts that I design and facilitate as part of my training work. .” Source: Learn Streaming. They are motivated to learn on their.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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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. And everyday until….

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2017

Once you determine the purpose of your fundraiser, you can structure the event and outline your goals. The details of your event will reflect the characteristics, likes and dislikes of your target audience which, in turn, will increase attendance, engagement and return on your investment. Set an Objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. We reflected on the applications to leadership.

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