Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

However, participants had to do this with people shaped sticky notes and a speech bubble. We did a brief share out where I asked people to snap if the target audience that was shared had some similarity or common characteristics to their target audience. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Who will facilitate? These are some of the best practices of planning a high quality session. Recently, Points of Light offered an instructional webinar on how to design a conference session. Find a creative way to catch attention, relay the topic of your session and keep people reading about your session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. I think people are more likely to pay attention if they know that they might in the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Having trained nonprofits on every continent of the world (except Antarctica), I had a great laboratory to develop my instructional design and delivery skills. One of the biggest challenges is keeping nonprofits engaged. It totally changed the atmosphere of the room, and people were ready to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. But when I go to meetings, I find that people sit more than stand, stretch, or walk. The facilitator told us a specific time to be back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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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. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. Pay close attention to interactions with other people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Grabbing supporters’ attention requires having highly engaging opportunities, and lots of them. Improve first line of defense safety net programs to protect people during COVID-19. – Hold virtual ‘town halls’ to educate the community on places people can go to get food. Urgent issues. Virtual solutions. HUMAN SERVICES.

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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 ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

In membership programs , it’s all about the details—and there might be one seemingly small detail that your organization isn’t devoting enough attention to: The all-important membership renewal letter! If you’ve sent your letter using direct mail, include a paper copy as well as instructions for those who want to complete the form online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Advocates get more attention from policymakers. This type of active exercise gets people moving, serves as an icebreaker, and also is an efficient way for the group to share a lot of useful practical learnings. Amplify peers’ efforts. Communications have more impact. Social media content mirrors other channels. Training Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

We crushed that goal and raised $4,540 because of your generosity in donating and calling attention to the birthday wish. Bora Vuth, a young man from Cambodia who is attending college here in US, put his finger on it as he joined 136 other people on Facebook who donated to the Sharing Foundation. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. But for some people, it can actually enhance their learning.

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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. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

41 million people, or 12% of the population, struggles with hunger. Yes, you’ll need an efficient way to process donations and facilitate the collection of food drive items. The impact of your event will double, and people will be more excited to donate when they know their donations will be matched. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

So I asked them to create a pipe cleaner decoration for their name tag if they were hands-on. Also, freely encouraging people to play with a small objective on the table might help some learners pay attention and not check out. I needed to distinguish between those who were hands-on with social media and those who were not.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Dosomething.Org , an organization focused on activating young people in social good campaigns, is an expert at engaging and activating Gen Z donors.

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 20, 2024

Five things that nonprofits should consider doing to facilitate donations. I even know people who have hired accountants specifically to manage which nonprofits receive donations — and when. So what can you do, as nonprofits, to facilitate donations? and then do its best to respond quickly.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition showcases collectors from throughout Santa Cruz County--people with collections from animal skulls to dryer lint to priceless historic flags. Santa Cruz Collects is based on collections and stories from people throughout our county. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. I know this because I've had complaints from people that they don't know what I'm talking about.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â??

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content. Images are incredibly effective at capturing our attention quickly, much more so than text alone. Occupation. Reasons for giving. Social media.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

It also gives you the opportunity to connect with people who might be interested in your cause and haven’t heard about it yet. Pro tip: Facilitate donations by making your “Donate” button easy to find! Auction and raffle item teasers: Get people excited about attending your event by showcasing some of the items they could win.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Now, philanthropic psychology, in its simplest form, is the study of how people love humankind, or sometimes I say how people love people. People shouldn’t only be loving people. People should be loving animals and the planet too.” ” And I absolutely 100% wholeheartedly agree with you.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 15, 2024

For your membership program to be successful, you must make it easy for people to become members and facilitate their ongoing engagement. Similarly, you can use CTAs to streamline event registrations and provide clear instructions on other ways individuals can get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Who are the people you want to reach?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

What could we put in the lobby just outside the gallery to: Capture the attention of visitors and alert them to the exhibition behind the wall? The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. Offer something fun and appealing to do that required entering the exhibition?

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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. Conclusion.

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