Candid

MARCH 19, 2024

Does having only a Bronze Seal reflect poorly on an organization? For further inspiration on how to highlight your nonprofit’s metrics and impact, visit Candid’s Common Results Catalog and our free course, “ Introduction to measuring your impact.” Not at all. You can access all of these resources for free.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

I facilitated check-in meetings that fostered active engagement among board members, encouraging them to reflect on how their unique strengths could propel Candid toward its vision. Photo credit: mapodile via Getty Images The post Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

Photo by Jim Nickerson. Photo by Jim Nickerson. Also, don’t forget about hydration for your walk. And, of course, good shoes for walking and stylish walking shoes are a good investment. I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! Susan Tenby (@suzboop) March 5, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” when they get tired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

Here’s a few reflections about presenting remotely in locations outside of the US. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. Photo by Be Chandra. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” Format: Our session was 90 minutes. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. Photo by James Leventhal. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning. This would have increased the scope of the project, of course.

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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 We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. And, of course, there’s an app to help you apply this skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Photo by Aussiegal. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students. The ultimate test of peer learning is to organize a course without the direction of an instructor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

I’ve captured some good notes, tweets, photos, and shared resources for each session, but here I wanted to dive into a few interesting ideas that bubbled up. What if we incentivised time spent in reflection and with each other? What if we incentivised time spent in reflection and with each other? Organizational Amnesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. And of course, we’d have fun while we did all of these things. It reflects best practices in adult learning and provides a framework that results in positive change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. Genuine: It reflects their character, behavior, values, and vision. Here’s what I discovered: Genuine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. 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. I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2012

A couple weekends ago I facilitated a 3-hour Tea, Cupcakes and Creative Bloggers workshop at Teahouse Studio. You can see more photos and reflections from the workshop on the blog Not Merely Living and on Room of Her Own. P.S. The Juicy Blogging E-Course starts Wednesday, Jan. Thanks again for the class yesterday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Photo by Aaron Schmidt. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. Yet foundation staff charged with organizational learning responsibilities are still charting a new course in our field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Of course, the projector didn't work (did I mentioned that I had lugged the 50 pound projector up four flights of stairs.) First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki. What did I do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. Here's where the coffee cup photos enter. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. I remember being inspired by it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Engaging photos, especially of local places and animals work well. ” The answer, of course, it depends. For specific advice on sizing images, see this post by John Haydon. Of course, you get people to use them, you’ll need a strategy as part of working with champions or brand ambassadors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Flickr Photo by Key Lime Pie. This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Dave's most recent critical friend post offers some thoughts about community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Photo by Darren Hester. I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.". The latter reflects an approach we refer to as “real-time” evaluation. Learn more about the conversation here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Photo by D'Arcy Norman. If you have taken on the role of community manager or are tasked with online facilitation of a community, network, or group and want to see how and if social technologies fit, this is the workshop to take. . Everytime I connect with colleagues at Cpsquared, it is an opportunity for reflection.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

These assignments call upon product knowledge of course, but also a great deal of facilitation training, including many practice teachbacks in front of the group. All three are important of course, but in the nonprofit world one should never leave out the emotional proof. How is software emotional?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. I facilitated a session in the afternoon called Managing Information Overload: Finding Your Blog Community."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. Two years later, while I still appreciate the very real operational limitations of most institutions with regard to facilitation, I now believe that it's often essential to success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo by Dwinton. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. Analyzing Your Blog Content With Metrics and Insight Of course, you need to set overall goals for your blog and understand your audience. What do you do to facilitate it? What reflective questions do you ask while looking at your data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". It has to be authentic, reflect the CEO's personality.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

In contrast, organizations that feature staff or member walls celebrating people's diverse talents and interests reflect the idea that this is a community of people who care about each other. This creates a dependency where visitors only experience the communal relationship if it is facilitated by staff.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

John details five identity needs that are well-served by museums: explorer, experience seeker, recharger, professional/hobbyist, and facilitator. And the facilitator wants his friends and family to have a good time. The explorer is a curious person who loves to dig into things. The recharger wants a mental break in a relaxing setting.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

For instance, the American Herbalists Guild hosted a virtual auction with items like an herbology 101 course and a gift card for botanical medicine. Plus, you can use these photos in your social media posts promoting the event to entice your followers to get involved. Create a plan for storing and cataloging auction items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. It's messy.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. You will also see some photos of my adorable toddler. And so the report really challenges us to think about five things.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) Here's a photo of one of the retired couples who came with their family to celebrate her 80th birthday in the exhibition.

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