Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. 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. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

The above is an example of how to do this with pen and paper, another way is to use apps called Mood Trackers , journals that let you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques. What is your favorite journaling technique? 2: Track Your Moods. How you manage stress triggers at work?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

So we did two exercises—with board and staff, separately—to develop our priorities. I suspect these exercises might be useful in any complicated project. You can see them in this chart. But they were not the ones people talked about the most in the months leading up to this exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. (I’ve charted those – so I know when they occur). Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content.

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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? In some exercises, such as the closing circle, the notes might be taken by hand so they ideas are captured. Peer Self-Assessment and Peer Coaching Exercises.

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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. Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. The value of this exercise was that it inspired me to rethink my routine about bedtime rituals. What I discovered is that once I was able to achieve my optimal number of 8.25

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. I've charted those – so I know when they occur). Have any techniques to add to this list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The mini-session included some practical tips and a reflective exercise based on the emerging nonprofit leaders peer learning project I facilitated last year. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques. You can find the resources here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I stumbled across the Pomodoro technique which is very similar to time boxing (assigning discrete blocks of time to a particular task and using a timer), but the method also gives you some ways to prioritize work. Or maybe it is negative thoughts.

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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. It makes me wonder about the various techniques for getting people to shift attention from small group to large group. I also created a stand up, sit down exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". These use tools like crayons and paper and process exercises. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. I did a full-room reflection exercise before the break in the morning called "Let's Walk the Line."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. (tags: nonprofits roi ). Unique Blog Readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We were luck to have Donna Norton from Momsrising share a presentation about their approach to integrated social media campaigns and success stories using a planning technique called “Layer Cake Strategy.” ” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Chart Your Course webinars available on demand To get started, it helps to have in mind a problem you think might be solved by AI. Leveraging techniques he and his “Whiz Kids” first practiced in the Pacific Theater of WWII, McNamara devised a data-lead strategy for the commitment of American troops and materiel in Vietnam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. Someone said, "Extension work is research based, how do you incorporate this technique?" The first session will introduce tagging and social bookmarking and an exercise. This was circa 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. We had a lot to talk about and I had remembered to bring in a CD of Khmer OpenSource! Observations.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. In your life you say, “I want to exercise.” So let’s just look at this chart for a second. He wanted to talk to a donor, a potential donor, about sponsoring a conference for his staff in India and he used this technique.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 2, 2005

Exercising caution, I declined to be dissuaded from my initial course to enter the medina at the French gate. I try to run away, but guide brother says oh, you misunderstood my little chart, it's actually $20. I begin to learn the techniques and etiquette of shopping, Arabic style. Guy number two I also dodge, but nicely.

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