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. Opening Exercise.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 78

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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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

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. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. 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

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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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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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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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 102

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. Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. Digital Trends. ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Social Media Digital Mobile Trend 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

Here is a summary of the stories and what people learned from the experience: Events. Energy Employees Claimant Assistance Project: If asking your community to generate content, make sure they know how to use the platform and tools. I for one am extremely proud of the work we have done and look forward to continued success!

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Contest Omaha Government Grant 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

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AUGUST 24, 2016

We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. The design included the following structure to allow for full group and small group dialogue, interaction, and exercises.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? In this article, I’m going to share a strategic marketing process that, when followed, will help you create content your audience will love. Structure Content With An Introduction, Body, and Conclusion.

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Process Content Digital Marketing 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Kivi Leroux Miller who blogs at Nonprofit Communications gives us a summary of what nonprofit consultants are posting. Alexandra Samuel is facilitated a session at BarCamp Vancouver called " Tagging for world domination." Leda from Scoutseven gives us a tip for how to cool down a mac if it is experiencing hot flashes.

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Blogher Blogger Disaster Conference 50