Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Slideshare how do i say it with charts from Beth Kanter. This helps spread good practices.

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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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Bloomerang

MARCH 3, 2025

It facilitates discussions that foster consensus among board members, staff, and volunteers. With a shared vision, the organization can confidently chart its course. Future preparedness: Winston Churchill noted, “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

My work as a trainer and facilitator has brought me to many places in the world. Often, the training on-site is the beginning of project which includes facilitating sessions remotely across time zones. This chart easily allows you to find the best time for a meeting. You can easily identify the overlap windows.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For example, one staff member may be in charge of creating volunteer appreciation efforts while another facilitates ongoing volunteer training. Share reports, data points, charts, and graphs depicting volunteers’ impact on your mission. Assign specific staff members to different roles throughout the volunteer management process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Facilitator Guide: [link]. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about the “show step.” From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. I thought was done!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. Building Your Chart of Accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

It isn’t that we need to organize them, but we need to facilitate ways for them to organize themselves. You can get the full report, review charts and data, and more at: [link]. Leadership interaction is important for Millennials. Get the full Millennial Donor Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. 1-2-4-All: This facilitation process comes from Liberating Structures. What is a challenge?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog post , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. Building Your Chart of Accounts. So What Exactly Is a Chart of Accounts?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words. What’s of interest?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words. What’s of interest?

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Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The data visualization tool, which consists of a map, charts, and lists, documents foundation support across several key areas including: campaign and election processes governing institutions and processes information and media public engagement and voting . democracy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

” I was half-expecting to hear crickets in response, but people replied with humor and excellent advice. Someone suggested that I get a sled and slide down the chart! Another person astutely said, ”Good for you, you took a break.” That always gets folks talking and sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing? The Twitter chart looks at the impact of a “tweetathon” we decided to hold on June 13; one week before World Refugee Day (June 20). Describe the Google Analytics Charts – specifically the diagram where you have annotations. Who did you prepare the chart for and why?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

These image files contain information, such as pictures, charts, diagrams, and the layout of the text on the printed page that cannot be converted to text or speech. None of this is captured by the HDL’s text?only only copies.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer.

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sgEngage

JULY 5, 2024

Identify the specific functionality needs of your organization, such as a segmented chart of accounts for accurate fund accounting and whether the software was built for organizations like yours. These individuals can facilitate a smoother transition to the organization’s “new normal” way of operating, increasing the chances for success.

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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. KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Chart: US Treasury. The oldest variant on this chart started in 2018, but the data FinCEN analyzed goes back to 2011. The Department of Justice is setting up a team to go after the exchanges that facilitate crime-related transactions, like ransomware demands. billion worth of Bitcoin over the past three years.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It also important to think about to development skills internally regardless and the Playbook offers a good list: Being “data-minded”: Someone who currently has or can build skills for creating charts, graphs, pivot tables and Excel formulas; someone who is interested in building surveys, exploring data and helping to make meaning out of numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. It will search hashtags or keywords and dump the data in a google spreadsheet.

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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. Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. What action can I take to manage the situation and my emotional response more effectively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We chose the latter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. .” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The skills are out there. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Since Tableau's first release in 2004, all visualizations created inside Worksheets have been rendered using VizQL , a breakthrough technology that allows you to create a chart with a simple drag-and-drop. Shipping sankey chart by Tristan Guillevin. Say hello to complex charts, as easy as drag and drop. What are Viz Extensions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. There are many apps that can help you find and practice meditation, guided imagery, and breathing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Efficient communication: Integrated communication tools in CRM solutions facilitate personalized and effective donor outreach. Charting a path for nonprofits For nonprofits, leveraging the synergy between a nonprofit CRM system like Bloomerang and fundraising is not just a strategic choice—it’s essential for sustainable growth.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

Allen Gunn (aka Gunner) from Aspiration will be facilitating the NTC Open Salon, and your presence will make it a stellar event. Come prepared to circle the chairs, rock the flip charts, meet your community, and remember: real techies talk to each other. The myNTC listings will be updated as topics are chosen.

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