Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? What's the outcome?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The brainstorming methods remind me of the “creativity” techniques such as Michael Michalko’s “ Cracking Creativity ” but instead of drawing them on paper alone, using sticky notes to make it a collaborate or group process. Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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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. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). It is also important to target the right level of authority. Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

Note from Beth: This resource has lots of useful framework and design tips for designing and implementing convenings which can also be applied to designing workshops, meetings, and other gatherings. Convenings can be a crucial catalyst for a group, an organization, an idea, or even a movement. By Noah Rimland Flower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I'm preparing for a Social Media workshop next month called " Making Sense of and Success with Social Media " where the audience will be consultants who work with nonprofits in other areas (not technology). I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

In partnership with NTEN, we brought together 50 volunteers to attend the 17NTC conference for dedicated workshops that will prepare them to be nonprofit technology champions. The workshops topics included. Find your closest NetSquared group. Or, you can apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan , and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a funder’s point of view. Some reflections from David here ). He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. Competitors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. Social Engineering the Small Groups. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Then comes the difficult part – identifying what “associated” metrics from social, email, and your web site that you need to collect. What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content. The study was of medical school lectures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

He asked each staff person to add a sticky note with the name of a “go to person&# for this issue for their group and location. The next step was to look for patterns as a group. Assemble a small working group or the “core&# that need to work together in a networked way for a particular purpose.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Identify larger, big-picture issues that are reflected within routine reports. For example, you could take the standard strategic planning issues focusing on organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis). He says, “This allows ample time for in-depth analysis of that topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. Who is target group you need to reach with your overall communications objective? I also created some fun group exercises for folks to learn the concepts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I was presenting a strategic technology workshop at one of their conferences. The full group discussion allowed people at different levels to share their experiences. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Twitter Advocates.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven, global network of nonprofit technology workshops and networking events. Since being back in Orlando, I've had an interesting time for reflections, observations, and especially comparisons. Find your local NetSquared group. She's our volunteer Netsquared organizer there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

I did a presentation for a group of Bay Area population research funders along with Scott Swenson, editor of HR Reality Check. Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Last week, I did at workshop for the Kellogg Action Lab College of Consultants. This group kept me on my toes. In reflection, I've been thinking about how much richer it is being social - how you don't have to know all the answers when you have a good network (and a decent Internet connection.)

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Detailed analysis of the needs your mission seeks to help. Analysis of your environment. This SWOT analysis will help you identify the key challenges and opportunities facing your organization, and will serve as the foundation for your business plan. How can your organization differentiate itself from the competition?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

There are two cohort groups, one working on strategic use of a single channel and a more advanced group working on an integrated strategy. With both, the process begins with setting SMART objectives and Kami Huyse points out why this is important. Increase enrollment in classes and workshops by 50% by June 30, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Last week, I was in San Francisco leading a workshop and helped organized a group of attendees for TwestivalSF. One of the workshop participants kindly brought me bag of schwag which included a t-shirt and other goodies and told me how wonderful it was! Unfortunately, I was sick, so didn't make to the event.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Madison Nonprofit Day Conference is a one-day conference jammed pack with ~30 workshop sessions, networking, exhibits, lunch, and a variety of activities. This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. 11/28/2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Post conference, I also learned of TwapperKeepr and Roomatic as hashtag grouping tools. I got a really nice surprise when Jordan from Pathable contacted me this week and asked if we’d be interested in them doing an analysis of the twitter activity like they had done previously for WordCamp. I am not sure we need the scribe (e.g.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

And I basically do a live workshop every single month, and it’s only $49. She’s giving me up, it’s an amazing workshop. 12 months later, both groups gave the same number of gifts, but those that get the extra thank you gave a total of $450,000 more that year. Susan is in my program. And I encourage you to.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2006

The front row in a banjo workshop. The jokes that come out of our work, whatever it is that we do, can reflect real points of frustration built into the structure of that work. These jokes would not show up over and over again if they did not reflect a problem built into the way we do work. What has sixteen legs and three teeth?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups. She also reflected on how she had to quickly learn business skills in addition to her tech skills. ” She had to learn how to wear many hats.” In her dual roles, Wanjiru divides her time between the U.S.

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