Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. I have read a lot about these methods , but you cannot really under it until you experience it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method? Then we opened up for discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff’s terrific overview post here ) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.). From the facilitator’s point of view, there are a couple of ways to facilitate this exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Rheingold’s low-tech technique, a post-it note on your computer monitor, is a simple and elegant way to help train your attention. During the workshop in New Zealand, we discussed different methods for being mindful and what might apply to our practice. Distraction is still a problem and we need to need to find coping methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 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. As a trainer, sometimes we get into “ruts&# where we use the same exercises and that can make you less passionate about your work. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way.

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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. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. This tool is called ImpactKit. We have been testing these workshops for the last few months and have had some interesting early results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you. Answer the question yourself: Answer the question raised in the article from your own experience. Content'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. Happy birthday #beth53 !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. Establish a method you can call in participants. Here are some more techniques to ensure that your virtual meeting participants are listening. 6-Techniques for Virtual Brainstorming, Voting, Feedback, and Energizers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S.

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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. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 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 session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I stumbled across the Pomodoro technique which is very similar to time boxing (assigning discrete blocks of time to a particular task and using a timer), but the method also gives you some ways to prioritize work. Photo by TBN98.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. Saying no is a muscle that needs to be exercised daily. This year I’m incorporating a couple of techniques. Bregman has a method for that. What did you accomplish?

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Draw your network After the presentation on Network Basics (materials here ), there were two exercises. This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". These use tools like crayons and paper and process exercises. .

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

In this exercise, team norms are agreed upon and serve as operating principles that guide remote team members’ interactions. This exercise helped them clarify how they communicate and work together effectively, while respecting time zones. In practice, it includes sensitivity to conversational turn taking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. You also need to design good openers and closers !

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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. We also covered some of the basic techniques for listening and engaging. We did an exercise to identify keywords and I demoed several tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It encompass mindset and ways of working which can be used to exercise new power despite whatever platform or tool is available to us. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques. Each profile is illustrated with an in-depth case study.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Certainly there are other techniques, methods, and exercises that can and should be embraced to bolster a nonprofit leader’s comfort, confidence, and capacity in asking for gifts. Fundraisers who are turned down know they made their best effort to promote their nonprofit and are ready to move on to other donor prospects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. As you plan your facilitator outline,review each activity or exercise focusing specifically on how remote participants will engage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

As technology steward for an online community of practice or facilitator of a group that wants to work together online, it is valuable to do this exercise to help you get a better understanding. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Using traditional training methods is a no-no here, as they are not time-efficient enough. Tree Testing Technique To check the reliability and effectiveness of your LMS, tree testing technique proves to be an ideal approach. It will help you evaluate the findability of topics on which training is to be provided on the platform.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Using traditional training methods is a no-no here, as they are not time-efficient enough. Tree Testing Technique To check the reliability and effectiveness of your LMS, tree testing technique proves to be an ideal approach. It will help you evaluate the findability of topics on which training is to be provided on the platform.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Using traditional training methods is a no-no here, as they are not time-efficient enough. Tree Testing Technique To check the reliability and effectiveness of your LMS, tree testing technique proves to be an ideal approach. It will help you evaluate the findability of topics on which training is to be provided on the platform.

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2023

Today, we will explore how to train the sales team and the revenue-boosting techniques for the same. The Delivery Method Should Be Engaging and Interactive Choosing the right delivery method is crucial for effective sales training. The method should be engaging, encourage active participation, and must promote skill application.

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