Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Understanding: Methods for Analyzing Challenges and Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Here they are: Rituals.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Or said another way, your new system most likely has created a more effective or efficient way of managing data and if you force the new system to replicate all the data content and structure of your old system, then you may bring many of the problems with your old data into the new system unintentionally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This can be challenging, but with the right support structure, nonprofits can thrive in this environment. By partnering with restaurants and caterers, and using video chats to facilitate socializing, virtual luncheons and dinners can be appealing affairs.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

This is a challenging time for associations. An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. Lack of resources. Initiatives that seem more urgent.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In recent years, that model is being challenged. Kelly Buhles outlines some of the ways to structure participation in her article, “A Primer for Participatory Grantmaking,” and divides them into two main groupings: participatory committees and collective groups. Those at the top decide. But what is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As the field of volunteer engagement has become more professionalized and as organizations grow and mature, many that historically benefited from auxiliaries now recognize some of the challenges inherent in these relationships. So, how are these institutions addressing the challenges while also leveraging the strengths of the model?

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The adoption of Learning Management Systems (LMS) has become integral to modern education and corporate training. These platforms provide extensive features that facilitate seamless management and delivery of content, ensuring that organizations can stay competitive.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The adoption of Learning Management Systems (LMS) has become integral to modern education and corporate training. These platforms provide extensive features that facilitate seamless management and delivery of content, ensuring that organizations can stay competitive.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems The adoption of Learning Management Systems (LMS) has become integral to modern education and corporate training. However, the process of selecting, implementing, and integrating an LMS is not without its challenges.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Leadership styles conducive to authentic engagement, providing clear guidance and building integrated processes and structures that foster collaboration and team cohesion is essential. Authentic engagement.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

. (#11NTCSocialCRM) Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) - The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Our goal was to draw on the collective wisdom in the room to discuss emerging solutions and strategies to the shared challenges of this new approach to social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

If you are need to understand how networks work and grow – and need to develop and hone network weaving skills – this amazing handbook will give you what you need!

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Network Skills NTC Chapter 111

Candid

MAY 7, 2021

The framework also notes a number of evaluation orthodoxies that should be challenged, including “grantees and strategies are the [subject of an evaluation], but not the foundation” and “evaluators are the experts and final arbiters; grantees are the beneficiaries.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Decision-making in generative social impact networks is distributed throughout members.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) – The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. . (#11NTCSocialCRM).

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Up for challenges: Leaders face many challenges while running an organization, and a great leader will be persistent, motivated, and high-spirited in the face of a tough situation. Trust them with new challenges rather than delegating the same tasks daily. Offer them mentorship opportunities to gain insights and develop skills.

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Generation Leadership Nonprofit Skills 98

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If an association were to use an AMS with the Contacts/Accounts data model, reporting would be a major challenge. It facilitates more unified reporting. In doing so, the Nimble AMS team can easily adapt the solution to meet nearly every membership structure. the Contacts/Accounts model is not an ideal choice for associations.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

They didn’t shy away from challenges; they offered stakeholders meaningful ways to engage with the swiftly evolving issues of the day. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. Be sure you’ve done the prep work to establish roles and responsibilities, prepare supplies, and bring in tools to facilitate your brainstorming session.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 101

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Even in the United States, access to printed materials can be a significant challenge for people who are visually impaired or have other disabilities that prevent them from reading standard print. I also served as a mediator and problem-solver, mainly by helping to facilitate communication between the employees, their supervisor, and the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much). I was invited to facilitate an opening plenary with three people who have lived inside successful networks for a couple of years to think big about the power of networks. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. This is the last post in a series of post about my experience at SXSW.

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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. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. Are you trying to connect coworkers during this challenging time? Plan the Particulars.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. To get on the same page, consider using virtual-friendly activities like The Center for Creative Leadership’s 10 Steps for Establishing Team Norms , which outlines a straightforward activity that can be facilitated remotely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

When Bill Traynor assumed leadership of Lawrence CommunityWorks (LCW), a community development corporation, he recognized these challenges and met them with a series of amazing questions. In addition, they’ve changed the physical structure of LCW so that there are fewer desks for the staff to stand or sit behind.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

We will explore the best tools for creating and sharing media, how to structure games and challenges using UGC, and how to prepare for your next endeavor. She is also a blogger, facilitator, and trainer, having worked with groups and spoken at events in the US, UK, and around the world.

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