Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy. Following this exercise, I facilitated an affinity map of the themes on the wall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. 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

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Start A New Professional Journal(s): For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal(s), using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. Organizations must invest in good learning management systems (LMS) to facilitate effective communication training.

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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. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We did this on Day 1. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Articulating measurable goals. Organizational Culture. Finding the time to devote to measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media. And during breaks from sessions, did a lot of media interviews. Real-time improvisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

One of the participants was an organization named GroundSpark which has a project called "Respect for All," that facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I met a lot of fantastic videobloggers as well as learned a lot through the discussion on production values facilitated by David Tames. Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

Culture 50

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Employee performance review is a formal regulated process of assessing the employee’s work performance and articulating future work expectations. This facilitates annual appraisals as you can simply compile the information at the end of the year. Emphasizing relationships and passive-aggressive statements.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Employee performance review is a formal regulated process of assessing the employee’s work performance and articulating future work expectations. This facilitates annual appraisals as you can simply compile the information at the end of the year. Emphasizing relationships and passive-aggressive statements.

Review 52

Review Guide Evaluation Template 52

Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Employee performance review is a formal regulated process of assessing the employee’s work performance and articulating future work expectations. This facilitates annual appraisals as you can simply compile the information at the end of the year. Emphasizing relationships and passive-aggressive statements.

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Review Guide Evaluation Template 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. Discussions about what type and level of risk is acceptable and when risk is acceptable (early in the development process, contained to a defined time period or clearly articulated experiment) are useful here.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques, and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. Organizations must invest in good learning management systems (LMS) to facilitate effective communication training.

Skills 52

Skills Leadership Communication Develop 52

Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques, and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. Organizations must invest in good learning management systems (LMS) to facilitate effective communication training.

Skills 52

Skills Leadership Communication Develop 52

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The Playbook features a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofit staff to apply the ideas and frameworks. This activity helps you articulate why a culture of philanthropy is important, your values, and the way you work. One useful technique is called “walk-a-mile-immersion.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. You know, like you get back your working rhythm. You are so welcome, Lindley.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Much like networking online today, it’s important to test different techniques to see what works best for you and what resonates well with others. Marketer and writer Sabel Harris of TrackMaven executes her writing using this very technique to help build thought leadership for both her employer and herself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

It means that you need to engage with a purpose or articulated goal. They measure conversions in Google Analytics using three techniques: traffic sources, advanced segments, and custom link tracking. But that’s only half of it as KD Paine and I write in our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! The questions that emerged from this group were not different from those that are asked when we talk about online facilitation and online communities.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

What we’ve done through the pandemic, beyond just continuing to accelerate, obviously, is we did make some focusing decisions around, “Hey, these two projects that were kind of in our periphery and articulated as part of our long-term strategy” [shifted to] “this is the forefront now and all this other s**t’s going to pause.”

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