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. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. by Jane Bozarth, Editor. by Jane Bozarth. by Sharon Bowman.

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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. The ultimate test of peer learning is to organize a course without the direction of an instructor. It resonated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This framework works like a charm, whether it is a one-hour webinar or 7 day intensive International training or college graduate course or year long peer learning program. Recently, I was on a call with colleagues to plan our NTC session on training , and co-presenter Cindy Leonard said to me, “You are using ADDIE ! Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them. One technique is to weave self-care into your workday .

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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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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? Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Advanced preparation is important. Design for Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Other times, I simply made them stretch like the photo above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Photo by Devon Smith.

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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

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

Photo by Jim Nickerson. Photo by Jim Nickerson. Leadership Technique: Leaders that do walking meetings can accommodate the many requests for their time. Also, don’t forget about hydration for your walk. And, of course, good shoes for walking and stylish walking shoes are a good investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. It's how you use the conversation to generate, aggregate, and facilitate social content. We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

So, of course, I had to set one up for myself. One immediate use that came to mind is that if you had a distributed work group (based in US) that was working together, you could have people add photos and brief intro to the map. She challenged her Nptech friends to think about how this might be used. Other ideas?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact. These two projects were always facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. Using social software for purposeful activities tends to create gigantic, wide, always-coursing feedback loops that will not be stopped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. Photo by James Leventhal. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning.

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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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AUGUST 15, 2010

The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. You'll create better-quality programs, gain greater traction with community members, obtain more focused feedback, and enable yourself to be more responsive to initial usage trends and to rapidly change course if needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. tools successfully.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

To kick off the course, we’re doing a simple exercise at the Seattle zoo (but you can do it anywhere). The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. The experiment requires you to go to a public space and do three things: Talk to a stranger.

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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. Someone said, "Extension work is research based, how do you incorporate this technique?"

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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. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Let's say I'm leading a youth group or course about nutrition and being healthy for at-risk youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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