Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

And, in addition, the best tool does nothing without good human project management skills using it. It’s a Ruby on Rails application, and that was actually kind of fun to finally get to install and play with RoR a tiny bit. We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

And, in addition, the best tool does nothing without good human project management skills using it. It’s a Ruby on Rails application, and that was actually kind of fun to finally get to install and play with RoR a tiny bit. We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

The challenge is part of the fun, right? leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. Look to the human skills to increase your stability and value. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. “Stuff” is coming your way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There’s something really nice about catching up with fellow donors during a luncheon or participating in a fun run to raise money for a nonprofit. Hire a seasoned live auctioneer with online auction experience : It takes a unique set of skills to build an audience’s enthusiasm through a computer screen. Virtual and Hybrid Concerts.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Worse yet, the facilitator is boring, the content is useless, board members are texting, and the food is stale! It’s possible to put together an amazing day that’s engaging, meaningful, memorable, and fun. The best facilitators are objective, providing a fresh vibe for the day with new insights and perspectives.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m really interested in the work Community Shares is doing and the direction they are headed with this project as it seems very aligned with many of my own feelings: technology should be used to help, facilitate, and empower the change communities already want to be making. Wow – that doesn’t sound like fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Hike during staff retreat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. Fluency in social media skills. NGOs master the skills and put them into practice. Integrating the training and social media. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The idea around peer learning groups is that participants learn skills that they assimilate as part of their ongoing practice. To do it, their Giving Day campaigns have embraced new technologies and outreach strategies to make philanthropy easy and, well, a ton of fun.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Nurturing Employee Talent: Using eLearning for Skill Development GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Nurturing employee talent can positively influence a company’s culture, growth, and success. More profoundly, they can facilitate: Better Engagement and Productivity Ideally, engaged employees are more likely to be productive.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Nurturing Employee Talent: Using eLearning for Skill Development GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Nurturing employee talent can positively influence a company’s culture, growth, and success. More profoundly, they can facilitate: Better Engagement and Productivity Ideally, engaged employees are more likely to be productive.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Nurturing Employee Talent: Using eLearning for Skill Development Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Nurturing employee talent can positively influence a company’s culture, growth, and success. About 80% of workers80% of workers say the chance to learn new skills would increase their engagement levels.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. What : Relax, or join the fun – it’s up to you! Activities include: - Human Bingo: A fun and easy way to network with other attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way. by Eric Jensen. by Jane Bozarth.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2010

The startups created by these highly skilled immigrants will generate most of the jobs and wealth in these countries in the future. Lend4Health is a non-profit organization that facilitates community-funded, interest-free micro-loans as a creative funding option for individuals and groups seeking optimal health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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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

JUNE 6, 2018

And of course, we’d have fun while we did all of these things. Developed by ETR in 2014, this is a research-based approach for designing and delivering skill-building trainings. Now, our staff retreat was not actually intended as a skill building training. There would be follow-up. Lucky for us, this retreat delivered!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Like Spring Break , it’s young, libidinous and fun. This works house-afire for a lot of volunteerism but it has often been a failure when it comes to high skilled, technology volunteerism at any kind of scale. And like Bar Camps , people hack. I talked to a lot of Campuseros; those are their questions. billion to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. It is great to have a day of fun before starting an intense week working on service projects. Tech2Empower Kanika Raney.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My predecessor, Stephanie Richardson, summed it up nicely : “When we think of Data Culture, it really is about bringing people along for that transformation, and not only enabling them with the right technology, but also with the skills, the support, the community, the learning—all of those things that go with trying to change someone’s behavior.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Support employees in growing their analytics skills. IT plays a strategic role in facilitating a data-driven collaborative culture across the business in several ways. How does that baseline change by team, skill level, or type of data that people are accessing? Adopt an agile approach to managing your analytics environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. I do this all the time. Implementation.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Event gamification elements, like a virtual scavenger hunt, can go a long way to facilitating networking at your virtual event. . A virtual escape room will give attendees the opportunity to work together with other participants, each using their knowledge and skills to solve problems. . Mix things up by adding a fun session or two. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

After spending a year facilitating a peer learning community of Knight Foundation grantees hosting giving days, one of the most factors for success for local no nonprofits participating is having about 6-9 months timeframe to develop a plan. I love the metaphor of a successful GivingDay campaign to a party: Timing is key.

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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. And that can be fun too! Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator. I love the way they've made fun for the capture team to document the conference and their evaluation questionnaire.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Support employees in growing their analytics skills. IT plays a strategic role in facilitating a data-driven collaborative culture across the business in several ways. How does that baseline change by team, skill level, or type of data that people are accessing? Foster community that builds and celebrates your Data Culture.

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Analytics Culture Roles Community 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet! This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun.

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