Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Note from Beth: Blocking out time for your nonprofit’s staff to do planning and work on areas like organizational culture is essential for success. And of course, we’d have fun while we did all of these things. Through it all, what mattered was that we were engaged in the learning, even when it just felt like fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2017

Note from Beth: I recently facilitated a Happy Healthy Nonprofit workshop on bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. We discussed the importance of leadership modeling and supporting a culture of wellbeing. Fun to have your CEO join your Workweek Hustle group! Photographic Evidence.

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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? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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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. Do we need to the whole hour to accomplish the same amount of work?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

LMS are critical for promoting a culture of continuous learning and enabling L&D teams to deliver effective and impactful development initiatives aligned with the organizational goals. Elements like badges, certifications, fun competitions, gifts, etc., As it stands, the LMS market is projected to grow to $37.9

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

LMS are critical for promoting a culture of continuous learning and enabling L&D teams to deliver effective and impactful development initiatives aligned with the organizational goals. Elements like badges, certifications, fun competitions, gifts, etc., As it stands, the LMS market is projected to grow to $37.9

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

LMS are critical for promoting a culture of continuous learning and enabling L&D teams to deliver effective and impactful development initiatives aligned with the organizational goals. Elements like badges, certifications, fun competitions, gifts, etc., As it stands, the LMS market is projected to grow to $37.9

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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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. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

For many of us of a certain age, that style has carried over to our work culture where we are rewarded for our expertise and to keep quiet what we don’t know (or screw up). And that can be fun too! Social media has unleashed a fabulous opportunity for professional learning about practice in public. How do you do this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly. Facebook discussion board here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Next, participants did a self-assessment, using the maturity of practice model ( Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ). I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. JD Lasica and I co-facilitated a workshop on measurement. Social Media Master Class. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Learning was an individual, often solitary activity. for many of us, that learning style carried over to our work culture where we are rewarded for our expertise and to keep private what we don't know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. What fun is that for me or them? The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture. I start with a crawl-walk-run-walk framework for staffing models for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. The spirit of experimentation and learning in the lab is not only inspiring, but a terrific example of how organizations with agile cultures work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So strategy really focuses on organizational direction, establishing values, mission, ensuring the organization embodies its cultural ethos. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think. I modeled that I don't know everything. I learned about the four keys of fun in game design as well as the role emotion plays in engaging people. Stay tuned for that!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

He is committed to our aspiration of creating a new model of what museums can be in the 21st Century. Even at a museum like ours, where more than 70% of our visitors are bringing others to facilitate a social (often family) experience, only new things can reliably motivate a visit. Those words haunt me. This isn’t an isolated issue.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. If I go on a date with you and we have fun, I develop some expectations about what will happen the next time I see you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. " Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you’re watching the recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter where you are, but we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. If you’re going to share this with a board member, that’d be kind of fun too. And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So thanks for joining a special Wednesday session, this is kind of fun. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

A Networked organization is more than just the electronic infrastructure and tools that facilitate communication. When you have a group of people working together in a network-culture and are facile with the tools, it can be unstoppable. It isn’t a matter of a Facebook profile or using Twitter. It is about sharing.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This fun, informative conference will spark ideas and recharge your engine to keep doing good every day. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. BC/DC Ideas / Raleigh, NC / $60. Communications / #CreateGood16 / @creategoodcon. Communications.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. And then, if you have people that you’ve identified through wealth screening or predictive modeling that have a high planned giving likelihood, you can send to those people. Claire: It was fun, Steven. So thanks, Claire.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Y’all, no company can build a coherent culture without people who either share its core values or possess the willingness and ability to embrace those values. And so for some organizations, going to a hybrid model, which I’ll talk about for a little bit is going to be most advantageous to the health of your organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. We are looking to model the solutions at every level of the work. You both know I have a blog called Have Fun Do Good. It looks like you're both having fun and doing good. How are you having fun and doing good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

If people fail in an intervention model, you can destabilize a society. Innovation/Culture of Play. Use Good Facilitation Practices. I practice facilitation which is listening, thinking on your feet, and allowing for discussion all the time — from small meetings to when I’m facilitating a training.

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