Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Whether our meeting is useless or valuable depends on how we design, facilitate, and follow up. If you are facilitating the meeting you need figure out logistics like scheduling, materials, and effective use of technology for virtual meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory. Here’s my curated list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. Facilitation'

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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2012

As more startups migrate their companies to the cloud, it can be difficult to gather the entire team for a productive collaboration session. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What’s your favorite new digital tool for collaboration or brainstorming and why? Try the New Basecamp.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

Sponsored by BoardSite — a board of directors management platform that centralizes key administrative tasks like meeting scheduling, document management, and online voting in a secure digital platform. Your members can also upload any other relevant documents to the platform to keep them all in one place.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for facilitation and interactive processes. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session. Basic Approaches.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

Have you ever sat through a board retreat and spent more time watching the clock, daydreaming, and checking texts than listening to the facilitator? Did your last facilitator stand behind a lectern and drone on like a record playing in slow motion? Facilitate and engage with confidence. Were they unengaging? Credibility.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. David has written up an incredible rundown of the game, including the cards, the planning documents and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Since co-authoring Social by Social last year, David Wilcox and I have had the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate various events for community and local government groups. The documentation explores Project Spaces conceptually as well as provides examples of how to hold a Project Spaces event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In well documented cases of international aid organizations operating in Haiti, weak safeguarding measures led to the sexual exploitation of the very people those groups exist to serve. Those cases sparked awareness among many funders of their role in incentivizing safety and their obligations when failures occur at grantee organizations.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Similarly, when you are building a project-related team, document goals, and objectives and ensure that all participants understand what success looks like. Using Suzanne Bell’s example, it can be helpful to consider both the technical and psychosocial roles that will facilitate the work. The MBTI can illuminate group dynamics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. WhatsApp offers an appealing and efficient method of sharing documents and other materials among members of a team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 2, 2020

But well before this year, the topic of collaborating remotely has been near and dear to the Nimble AMS team’s heart. Because Nimble AMS , built on the Salesforce platform , has always been ready to support remote collaboration. With Nimble AMS, your staff can be prepared to collaborate, no matter where they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Online collaboration tools and platforms give nonprofits the opportunity for connectivity and collaboration internally as well as with external stakeholders like volunteers and board members. But it can lead to being overwhelmed or what has been dubbed “ Collaborative Overload ” or “ Collaboration Tech Tool Overload.

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Choosing the right LMS not only facilitates training but also ensures alignment with life sciences regulatory compliance frameworks. Secure Electronic Signatures : Look for systems that enable secure electronic signatures to validate training and document approval. Q: How can an LMS improve the efficiency of compliance audits?

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Prioritizing Collaboration and Sustainable Funding Arts and Culture Alpine County (ACAC), a local arts agency, has obtained small grants from the Alpine County Board of Supervisors and Live Healthy, an organization under the Alpine County umbrella.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This document should be reviewed annually, and at any other times when boundary lines start to blur. Executive directors can facilitate this by preparing board agendas that focus on strategic discussions—and ways to get members involved to support the fundraising efforts of the organization—rather than on operational details.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

. • To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. The group is in an interesting position, preparing to move from the incubated group that it has been thus far to a more open group meeting less often (moving from every other week to once a month) in collaboration with CreativeCoffee.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

So why is it so hard to get these departments on the same page, collaborating in peace? Successful collaboration between a company’s business development and product development requires mutual understanding and purpose. Create a P/C/S Document. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. Logan Lenz , Endagon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Gyrus

JULY 18, 2024

Efficient Documentation Processing Automated onboarding accelerates processes by eliminating manual data entry and paperwork. It’s also possible to streamline the documentation process even before an employee’s first day, allowing more time for introductions and productivity.

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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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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I like the fact that the source documents are always provided.) Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Ideally, a copywriter, a marketer, and an IT staffer would collaborate to develop the scripts.

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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 .

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

Are collaboration tools working effectively? IT has become more than a facilitator; It is a collaborator in our ability to bring ideas to life. If you don’t have a governance strategy, developing this document should be a priority. Could some staffers benefit from additional training?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Even better. User adoption is a tricky beast.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

While the value of community services data may have been defined in the past by the strength of the walls around it, today however, tremendous value comes from the ability to be use appropriate data collaboratively among partners. Visionlink has authored and supported standards for nearly two decades. Working with ANSI, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 6, 2024

During regulatory inspections, companies need to provide documentation to demonstrate compliance. An LMS should facilitate the use of electronic signatures for approving training materials and documenting completion of training modules. Q3: How can an LMS help life sciences companies stay compliant with FDA regulations?

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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. So, I thought I’d take the time to document my recommended processes here! A note about DIY.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The document includes examples from different industries, including nonprofit organizations and for advocacy campaigns. Of interest, was an workshop that was designed to begin setting the standards in social media measurement co-facilitated by KD Paine, an expert in communications and social media measurement. (KD Paine and [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development.

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