Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

They nudge people to think more expansively and creatively than any one mind is likely to do. If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. Invite the right people and no one else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

Let them meet some of the people on your team and maybe even offer up a virtual tour of your facilities and programs. Non-monetary donors During the year-end season, you may have attracted the attention and generosity of non-monetary donors. What happens behind the scenes: This is your chance to share even more about your organization.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination campaigns capturing public attention, accurate, user-friendly healthcare websites are more crucial than ever. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Prioritize accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The debriefing prompted a wide range of insights, particularly how to facilitate a training when you have individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The challenge now is ensuring your nonprofit stands out in the competition for their limited time and attention. While your traditional events are likely on a pause right now, your nonprofit should still have effective event management tools to facilitate registration and other related processes. Event management tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Andrea gave an awesome presentation with some great frameworks and tips on planning and facilitating productive meetings to avoid death by meeting. She started off with some statistics that the average professional attends 13.7 If we pay attention to designing good meetings, we’ll be happier in the end. You can read more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Seating was in round table eight, approximately 300 people. There was also a dream team of audio visual techs. The conversational starter was “How much of a networked nonprofit is your organization?&# Several people raised stood up and said they worked for Networked Nonprofits. Tweets from people not in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? How did it go?

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

It helped me meet and reconnect with some of the most inspiring people in our industry, catch up on the latest social media technologies ( Whrrl !), Provide resources for people to tell stories more effectively: digital cameras, video cameras, audio records, and a solid blogging platform or web site.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

In order to get more familiar with your organization, many people will likely head to your “About Us” page. For instance, if you recently participated in the Giving Tuesday Now campaign , one virtual fundraising tip is to display a graphic or call to action on the homepage that captures people’s attention as soon as they land on your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. It is being used less for remote participation and more for people in the room.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It's not enough to just share stories about your impact — how do you mobilize and engage people who are passionate about issues you're working on? Put People at the Forefront of Your Stories. Your audience will respond to stories that immediately grab their attention. Tell the same story in multiple ways.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Non-text elements like images and videos can also be used to break up long blocks of text and grab the user’s attention so they stay on your website longer. Web accessibility is a growing initiative to make website content more accessible for people of all abilities. Captions for audio-based content. Color contrast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. He urged everyone to pay attention to this closely. What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." There are offline ways to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Bloglines (nptech account).

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

In the planning process, be sure to put the online event elements away for a second and pay very close attention to the set up for the physical event details. . Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So it’s for the people, by the people, is kind of the mantra here. . How do we do it in a way that feels inclusive, that people are heard, and that we can make decisions and not be overwhelmed by the process? So today’s agenda, we’ll talk a little bit about the why, the pros, and the cons, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitator a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Virtual events have skyrocketed in popularity, with more and more nonprofits moving to the digital space to facilitate traditional face-to-face engagement efforts like auctions, galas, and walkathons. YouTube users can begin streaming in minutes and you can leverage scheduling options to better facilitate your pre-planned events.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

There’s writer’s block, competition for our attention in the form of social media or our phones, and who can forget about the 50 other responsibilities we have on our plate. There’s just one problem… You have about 8-seconds to grab and retain a visitor’s attention before they leave your site.

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