Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It can reveal connections between novels you adore and foreign films youve never heard of, or help you articulate why certain stories stick with you while others dont. You can use those collections to train your AI assistant. It analyzes themes, narrative structures, and emotional resonance across media formats.

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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 look for patterns.

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Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Journal 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the pandemic, interested soared in learning how facilitate better virtual meetings. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing.

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Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Reflection 100

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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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

A technology migration project typically involves several key steps, including defining a project scope, assessing the current tech stack and gathering requirements from across the organization, evaluating technology vendors and implementation partners, and ultimately planning, building, configuring, testing and training staff on the new system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. We’ve been trained in our society that it’s not polite to talk about money. It’s in your job description. And it’s not an individual sport. It takes a village.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : I have continued to reach workshops on virtual and hybrid facilitation approaches, including asynchronous and flexible facilitation.

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Reflection Professional Facilitation Nonprofit 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training. Training Design' I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.” Here are some tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing.

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Professional Nonprofit Journal Facilitation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

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. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I just finished the first day of a training on Network Effectiveness for Packard Grantees facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute. In fact, Eugene was watching the ant trails from the training session - we used the hashtag #packfound. If community guidelines are formally articulated, they need to be enforced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

(I’ve found the site invaluable because it aggregates information about foundations, including social media efforts, and it makes it very efficient to search for examples for trainings and presentations ). Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important.

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Philanthropy Effective Nonprofit Foundation 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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Measure Learning Social Media Metrics 105

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Preparation allows you to clearly and confidently articulate your organization’s mission, showcase your passion, build trust, and align your goals with the donor’s values. Lack of experience or training Many fundraisers are passionate individuals who may not have received formal training in donor relations.

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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. I love designing and delivering trainings on social media and the added challenge of working outside of the US. It always helps me improve practice. I did a pre-survey.

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NGO Social Media India Reflection 97

Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

These connections may be able to help facilitate a warm introduction with key contacts at potential companies. Be sure to articulate your goals of your fundraising event’s sponsorship. If you don’t have network connections at your list of target companies, don’t worry. In this agreement, be sure to align on the following: Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2012

Too often, eager to fill a vacant seat or secure a well-known name, we fail to clearly articulate expectations of service to prospective board members, or downplay the expectations of service. “Board manuals can be a key resource in facilitating the work of a board member. Board Manual. Committee participation.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others. Organizations have started embracing digital learning and using LMS to deliver training.

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Skills Leadership Communication Develop 52

Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others. Organizations have started embracing digital learning and using LMS to deliver training.

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Skills Leadership Communication Develop 52

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2024

Or what I like to call a love-train culture. To empower people to be the change they want to see, one must facilitate philanthropy. Clearly articulate our impact and results in order to attract social investing. Over a decade ago, CompassPoint and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Love, not money.

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Problem Nonprofit Philanthropy Charity 104

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Costs related to this phase include staff time related to project management, installation, training, and preparation of data for migration.

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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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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Further research revealed that the organization does economic development work while training people in the community in entrepreneurship. Here is how I would state the mission for greater clarity: We train people in entrepreneurship and provide access to capital to open small businesses. Sounds good, but what do they actually do?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions. Some leaders are inclusive, letting their team have input into decisions.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

By clearly articulating your membership tiers and benefits across multiple marketing channels, you can connect with potential new members who would be a good fit for your program. Cultivate impactful relationships to increase retention. transaction fee. Pricing Pricing starts at $4,500 per year.

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Software Tools Nonprofit Associations 109

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Use current volunteers as a resource.

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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.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

On that note, let us understand how organizations can create a comprehensive RFP that facilitates a smooth procurement process and ensures that your organization navigates the intricacies of Request for Proposal development and vendor evaluation effectively. What is an RFP, and what is its role in procurement?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

On that note, let us understand how organizations can create a comprehensive RFP that facilitates a smooth procurement process and ensures that your organization navigates the intricacies of Request for Proposal development and vendor evaluation effectively. What is an RFP, and what is its role in procurement?

Template 52

Template Proposal Evaluation Structure 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

On that note, let us understand how organizations can create a comprehensive RFP that facilitates a smooth procurement process and ensures that your organization navigates the intricacies of Request for Proposal development and vendor evaluation effectively. What Is an RFP and Its Role in Procurement?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

She felt that she lacked formal training and knowledge, and was afraid of “saying the wrong thing”. Anton felt that his reading of art was so consumed by scholarly critique that it was hard to articulate a purely intuitive response. Traci felt put-off by the “scene” that surrounded the art world.

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