Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Many in the philanthropic community desire that nonprofits reflect the communities they serve—including everyone from volunteers and donors to staff, executives, and the board. We’ll also discuss taking DEIAB from a one-off training to a sustainable part of your culture. The world is changing, and so is philanthropy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. for my journal or my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” As the part of my monthly review, I reflect on my themes and habits to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As part ongoing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am designing, facilitating, and delivering workshops with Compasspoint. Last week, I had the great pleasure of presenting a one-day workshop with colleagues Holly Minch , JD Lasica , Janet Fouts , and Susan Tenby. Morning Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Calderoni explains that leaders must put character at the center of everything they do, and he explains that company culture is distinct from company character. Company character is the integrity, respect, and fortitude residing at the core of your culture. Calderoni Question: What inspired you to write your book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The workshop design looks at how to considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations as well as exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry. or social technologies into community of practice work ask amazing questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. … Read More.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Engaging the consultant search using a JEDI approach requires clarity of intent, a commitment to being uncomfortable, and a great deal of “cultural humility” (self-reflection, personal critique, and acknowledgment of existing biases), especially in white-lead and white-dominated organizations and institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The project kicked off a year ago with a seven-day Train the Trainers intensive in Beirut, Lebanon for the in-country teams who would localize and implement the curriculum for five 3-day workshops that I designed. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. This conference was designed as an interactive, networking event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Before focusing on workplace strategies and culture change, participants go through some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan. 1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal. Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

This isn’t about filling seats; it’s about enriching your organization’s culture and capabilities with new perspectives to support your mission and drive growth. Make the effort to make sure your board reflects a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Foster a collaborative culture. Your challenges?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Perhaps I didn’t ask the question well. I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. Here were some of the questions: These are concerns about the privacy, safety, and legal liability. #1 View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. My reflections are here. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization. Photo by Justin Benttinen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. Enter micro-learning, resources that can be quickly read, viewed, or consumed and take only ten minutes or less.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

” I attended a fantastic workshop facilitated by Michelle Gislason , Senior Project Director, CompassPoint, called “ How to Fail Spectacularly (and What You Can Learn from It) ” Here’s a few key takeaways and resources. This takes an agile, learning culture. The exercise is based on failfare.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge. Change Organizational Culture. By: Yolanda F. Authenticity in Diverse Donor Relations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

Note from Beth: This resource has lots of useful framework and design tips for designing and implementing convenings which can also be applied to designing workshops, meetings, and other gatherings. How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook. By Noah Rimland Flower. Is it the right time?). What’s the point? (Do

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The last couple of months have been busy with conferences, workshops, and travel. Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. Gavin Clabaugh was the moderator and Marc Osten who presented about the cultural change issues to adopt social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

My colleague, Rami Al-Karmi, who served as the social media specialist for the Jordan e-Mediat team and works for N2V , invited me to do a mini-workshop at the N2Vlabs Talks series and met the fellows in Amman before coming to the Dead Sea. Mohammad L. Azzam with Bill Gates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

This periodic review pushes us to candidly reflect on what works and what we can do better with our grantmaking. A few weeks ago, we featured the following question on the site: Do you think that OE funders should require grantees to undertake an organizational assessment before awarding an OE grant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2011

It’s the all about organizational culture as well as the depth of senior leadership’s understanding and knowledge of social media. There is also the Social Media Policy Tool that allows you to answer a couple of questions and it spits out some boiler plate to get you started.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The question is related to social media training: What are the key questions nonprofit organizations should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning? People need time to reflect on their technology use, share what they???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

This year SXSW is offered something new: workshops on a wide range of topics from some of the top people in their industry. I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

One of the things that I love at the Packard Foundation is the learning culture. Some reflections from David here ). Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Author David La Piana. Did the organization make decisions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

I invited Lisa to reflect on her experience and share some advice as a blog post. We began the Book Club by carefully crafting a couple questions per chapter, and focusing on about one chapter per week. We dropped the formal book club structure (Week 2: Question 3 ….”) It was working pretty well as planned.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

During the World Cafe, we broke into small groups of 4 or 5 and discuss these three questions: What do we do when things go wrong. At the end, she asked the room to reflect quietly and write down “What conversation are willing to commit to bring back to your organization? How do we deal with negative feedback?

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