Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. ” questions.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ask if anyone has any questions. The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” We’ll conclude with 10 minutes to vote on our top 3 – 5 ideas. Now… you’re ready to begin! Well, almost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. What is the difference?

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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. Change Organizational Culture. This can include incentive structures, remembering DEI in programming, speakers, professional development, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Their mandate is to exhibit and preserve the collection of the best assets that represent the story and chronology of a culture or a society. Curation has a distinguished position in cultural institutions. Museums, archives, and libraries share many goals and functions. What does your collection represent?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

There were lots of big unresolved questions. How much would John pay for rent and how should we structure it? So we structured the rent in a “base with kicker” format. Once we had to prioritize, some sexy, much-discussed ideas—like celebrating local food—gave way to core MAH values—like celebrating cultural diversity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes. Here’s some examples.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? First, with discipline and structure.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

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. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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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. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice. Peer learning is an important concept.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. They will have good advice about ways to structure your nonprofit finances responsibly. When you decide to go one way rather than the other, try and ask these questions: . Look for start-up grants at State and Federal levels. .

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

The question simply becomes how much to ask for. You need to be able to answer these questions if you want to get into a donor’s heart: What kinds of words do they use? Note, however, that if you survey your donors or ask questions of a potential donor, you have to learn to read the answer behind the answer. Practice your ask.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? First, with discipline and structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

There are so many big questions about the connected world we live and how it transforms our society, as this opinion piece from CNN discusses. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. Why aren’t we talking about nonviolent approaches to resolving conflict? ” Widad E.

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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. The peer assist session was designed based on the sticky notes of questions that participants wanted to address.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Send frontrunners your RFP and offer to answer any additional questions that they may have. Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Advancement Resources – Managing Culture Change. Review your candidates. Review their proposals. Prospect profiling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there. I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work. www.bookshare.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A crowd made up of diverse people with as many perspectives as there are people can, when faced with a question, problem or idea, generate a coalescing of sense and thence a consensus. A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position.

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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. Some Reflections. How did that relate to the learning objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. I will start with an overview of the ” Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly: Maturity of Practice Model ” for networked nonprofits. Engage with the purpose of leading to collective action.”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. The music he listened to on the radio "got its power" from studio techniques. This gets a bit at the confounding question of how to measure "quality" in a participatory project.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. A great fundraising plan is one that both serves as a blueprint, but also offers this information through the lens of your nonprofit’s culture, mission, and values from beginning to end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

How could I efficiently use movement, interaction with peers, and report outs without wandering around Oprah style? [I improvised a technique in the moment that worked for the layout of the room that I will share in another post].

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We were seven people in a room, laser-focused on making the MAH a community gathering place and cultural center. The tools and techniques that worked for us when we were seven people in a room don't work for twenty. You can pose a question to a channel without inducing reply-all headaches. I resisted building better structures.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

In pop culture-land, relevance is all about now. It's a cultural institution problem. Interpretative techniques. New formats introduce structural changes, whereas new content may only hit the surface. Here's my question for you: How do you perceive the difference between relevance of form and content? Not just now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

His questions are: How can blog conversations foster a cloud and not just a hub and spokes effect? Trying to create a culture that encourages commenter to commenter interactions through your own responses in the comments section--maybe by drawing the attention of one commenter to the thoughts of another. Christy Tucker ) 10.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Transformative keynote speakers, compelling educational sessions and unbeatable networking opportunities will leave you awash in experiences to inspire and strengthen the philanthropic culture of your YMCA. We know you've got questions. General / #NAYDO2019 / @YMCA_NAYDO. The Learning Conference 2019. The Learning Conference 2019.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Non-game social platforms like museums should use game design techniques to make these institutions more successful at supporting user happiness. However, I'm wary of the limitations of game structures to support human happiness.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This isn't just a rhetorical question. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Not only were they from all over the country, but they all shared an international, multi-ethnic or cultural base. You answered a question by writing this book, so what's the next question that you want to answer? Then the big question is, how do people share in that risk of our food production? What's next on the trail?

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