Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

That’s when you can add a brief stretch break, energizer , or incorporate an exercise that requires getting up and moving around. I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, if I have to do some writing – that requires a higher level of attention for me than does scanning Twitter or reading and responding to email. I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. (I’ve charted those – so I know when they occur).

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

An organizational chart. Exercises like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator will deliver a deeper level of insight. These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. Financial statements. Minutes of recent meetings. Committee descriptions and rosters. A calendar of events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. In some exercises, such as the closing circle, the notes might be taken by hand so they ideas are captured. Then we opened up for discussion.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

So, this exercise is also a marketing tool. These ideas may be obvious to association staff, but they may not be clear to the pundits you hope to attract. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Those were useful exercises, but we’ll need a broader dataset to really set our bearings. Naturally, we’ll have oodles more data and charts when Q1 2023 data fully drops, but we can get a head start. To that end, let’s look at all of Europe and then consider the three largest venture markets in the region: the U.K.,

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition to the chart, there will also be lessons, and some languages will include games that involve tracing non-Latin characters or even building the character like a puzzle. Exercises for languages may include listening exercises, tracing characters, and puzzles. Image: Duolingo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief. Walk and Talk: I do this a lot in half-day or full-day trainings. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. At the end of the mapping exercise, you can write an overall goal, like connecting offline, or fundraising, or maybe advocating on important issues, and the main platforms where it takes place.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But more than that, this exercise helps identify where you should concentrate efforts, where to distribute messages, and where you have the best chance of successfully engaging the community to support your work. Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. Community Map.

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Tableau

AUGUST 7, 2021

How to Build an XmR Chart in Tableau. How to Use Tableau Marimekko Chart Templates. Regex Part II: Basic Examples & Exercises. A Little Design Makes a World of Difference. Kevin Flerlage, The Flerlage Twins. Inspiration. Iron Quest Diversity in Entertainment Recap. Sarah Bartlett, Sarah Loves Data. Steve Taylor, InterWorks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Our usual mockery of SPAC charts mostly doesn’t apply. Why go through the exercise of sorting Nextdoor into a cabal of social networks? Let’s begin. Nextdoor’s SPAC pitch. social networks (Facebook, Snap, Instagram). Well, here’s why:

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

If you’re casual, you can simply get a breakdown of how you’ve spent each day, with colorful pie charts recording how many of the finite minutes of your life you’ve wasted recently. It can even lead them through calming breathing exercises. Machine learning tracks how you spend your time each day.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

More often than not, decks include a series of numbers and charts. Here’s an exercise for cutting away some of the excess when attempting to get your story in front of VCs. Connect the dots. The job of a story pitch is weaving a good narrative around these figures. Get to the point. They don’t call it an elevator pitch for nothing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Below is a chart summarizing different types of taxation and when each applies. As you can see above, some of the more common levers that influence how much tax a founder owes after an exit include QSBS, trust creation, which state you live in, how long you’ve held your shares and whether you exercise your options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

The above is an example of how to do this with pen and paper, another way is to use apps called Mood Trackers , journals that let you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques. As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The pie chart illustrates proportionately how each contributes to the campaigns’ success. Title each column after the elements listed above: The fill-in-the-blank exercise is straightforward from here. For in-house marketing teams or those working with outside marketing firms or consultants, make a four-column table.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Students will learn how to critically analyze data through theoretical and practical exercises. Chart building skills and competencies. Data Literacy One focuses on the fundamentals of data, including variable types, how to structure data, how to summarize data, and an introduction of data visualization.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2020

At the same time we were buying Pelotons and experimenting with home fitness and exercise, and to be perfectly candid, none of it was fun. There’s ways to get exercise that are fun that existed in the world before virtual reality,” adds co-founder Chris Milk. But you don’t think of those things as exercise necessarily, or fitness.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

Give this exercise a try! Make a pie chart of your funding sources. I like Excel for pie charts because it’s super easy to use. But every organization needs to have several distinct sources of income (or several slices of pie). Just be sure you’re slicing your pie in a way that makes sense for your organization. Revenue stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Getting exercise, taking breaks, drinking water, and making time for solitude. I’ve charted myself according to times when I reach peak levels of concentration and try as much as can to schedule tasks require it. There is the mind-body connection which boils down to taking care of yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2008

Explain exercise goals and that we'll be posting some of our burning questions throughout the day to Twitter and checking in for answers as the workshop unfolds. Give instructions to participants to do the exercise. Have participants work on exercise, keep eye on time. Flip chart burning questions. Flip Chart/Markers 3.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Web: Back 2 Viz Basics Twitter: #B2VB Week 2: Build a Multiple Line Chart Workout Wednesday Build your skills with a weekly challenge to re-create an interactive data visualization. Web: Workout Wednesday Twitter: #WOW2022 Week 5: Can you build a funnel chart? Not limited just to newbies!

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Web: Back 2 Viz Basics Twitter: #B2VB Week 2: Build a Multiple Line Chart Workout Wednesday Build your skills with a weekly challenge to re-create an interactive data visualization. Web: Workout Wednesday Twitter: #WOW2022 Week 5: Can you build a funnel chart? Not limited just to newbies!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. These use tools like crayons and paper and process exercises. . The first was to look at the different social network analysis maps posted on the walls and figure out what was going on. Low-Tech Approaches.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

I've charted those – so I know when they occur). I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. The mind map offers a lot of good suggestions for rituals – from decluttering your workspace to healthy habits like sleep and exercise. Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

We’ve designed a short exercise to help you decide. If you have two or three key constituents, you can repeat the exercise for each, but choose one to start with.) Once you’ve defined how complex and related each constituent is, plot your constituent groups on a chart for a look at your overall constituent picture.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

There is, however, an actionable aspect to the connect app, as well as an attempt to chart how your mental health changes over time. But we also give you CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) exercises, breathing exercises, meditation, educational pieces — different things that are tailored to help you improve.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. We decided to use an understanding exercise, a SWOT analysis related to the topics. Learning More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics. Here are few nonprofit toolkits that can help you adapt this exercise to your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game. I also created some fun group exercises for folks to learn the concepts. Who is target group you need to reach with your overall communications objective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The mini-session included some practical tips and a reflective exercise based on the emerging nonprofit leaders peer learning project I facilitated last year. We ended the afternoon with a coaching exercise that helps motivate and empower people by focusing on their strengths. .” You can find the resources here.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 6, 2023

In this blog post, I want to use DuckDB to explore my Fitbit data achieve and share the approach for analysing a variety of data formats and charting my health and fitness goals with the help of Seaborn data visualisations. Export Fitbit data archive Firstly, I needed to get hold of all of my historic fitness data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

The original worksheet was developed from recommendations from the Spin Project and the " Smart Chart " developed by Spitfire Strategies.) Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. We created a worksheet with more detailed questions adapted and remixed from CCTV's wiki.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

During the Circle, a trained “Salonniere” guide will first lead the group through introductions, a breathing exercise and will then introduce a storytelling prompt based on a specific theme, like “Stories on Gratitude,” or “Stories on Surprise,” for example.

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