Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I have also attended and facilitated meetings with a graphic recorder, most recently at the Nonprofit Technology Conference , and know the power of how “drawing on the wall” can help spark group insights and learning. Here’s an interview with Rachel about the techniques and a blog post the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. More specifically, datamaking is an action whereby we transform information into data so that data can contribute to knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days. As with any new group, many of the foundations were reluctant to make a commitment to participate in the exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Encourage students to take part in group discussions or activities that are connected to the video material in order to promote teamwork and social learning. This can be facilitated via a robust learning management system (LMS). Use user analytics to evaluate user behavior, video engagement, and interactions within the videos.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Encourage students to take part in group discussions or activities that are connected to the video material in order to promote teamwork and social learning. This can be facilitated via a robust learning management system (LMS). Use user analytics to evaluate user behavior, video engagement, and interactions within the videos.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Encourage students to take part in group discussions or activities that are connected to the video material in order to promote teamwork and social learning. This can be facilitated via a robust learning management system (LMS). Use user analytics to evaluate user behavior, video engagement, and interactions within the videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators.

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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. It must provide them with valuable insights, knowledge, and skills to excel in their roles. You must equip your sales teams with the right knowledge and skills to optimize their efforts.

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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. It must provide them with valuable insights, knowledge, and skills to excel in their roles. You must equip your sales teams with the right knowledge and skills to optimize their efforts.

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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. It must provide them with valuable insights, knowledge, and skills to excel in their roles. You must equip your sales teams with the right knowledge and skills to optimize their efforts.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Some courses are meant to co-exist and taken as a group-one after the other to deliver a holistic experience to learners. Following a structure for a learning program puts the learner in the forefront and allows him to gain knowledge in small parts. Why Learning Paths (Curriculums) are important for your training programs?

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Some courses are meant to co-exist and taken as a group-one after the other to deliver a holistic experience to learners. Following a structure for a learning program puts the learner in the forefront and allows him to gain knowledge in small parts. Why Learning Paths (Curriculums) are important for your training programs?

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Some courses are meant to co-exist and taken as a group-one after the other to deliver a holistic experience to learners. Following a structure for a learning program puts the learner in the forefront and allows him to gain knowledge in small parts. This is where learning paths play a vital role.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I always incorporate an icebreaker, a short exercise that lets people introduce themselves and tap into existing knowledge. Last week, Janice from Exponent Philanthropy and I led a conference session called Facilitation: Tools of the Trade. Take a group selfie. Group selfie ice breakers in our facilitation meeting!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Small Group – Making Posters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. The full group discussion allowed people at different levels to share their experiences.

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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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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

This way, gamification increases learner motivation, improves knowledge retention, and ushers in a sense of achievement. This accrues several advantages in the name of increased knowledge retention, just-in-time learning, and improved learner engagement. This can be achieved through surveys, focus groups, or user testing.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

This way, gamification increases learner motivation, improves knowledge retention, and ushers in a sense of achievement. This accrues several advantages in the name of increased knowledge retention, just-in-time learning, and improved learner engagement. This can be achieved through surveys, focus groups, or user testing.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

This way, gamification increases learner motivation, improves knowledge retention, and ushers in a sense of achievement. This accrues several advantages in the name of increased knowledge retention, just-in-time learning, and improved learner engagement. This can be achieved through surveys, focus groups, or user testing.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

However, to ensure competency, adaptability, productivity, knowledge-sharing, uniformity in work, etc., Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. organizations need to train their global teams.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

However, to ensure competency, adaptability, productivity, knowledge-sharing, uniformity in work, etc., Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. organizations need to train their global teams.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

However, to ensure competency, adaptability, productivity, knowledge-sharing, uniformity in work, etc., Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. organizations need to train their global teams.

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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. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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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. The morning used the World Cafe technique. I later became a member of the GIGI group ( girl geeks of the World Cafe ). Fluency in social media skills.

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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

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. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Harold Jarche (Click for Original Article).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). So what to do?

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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. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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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? Why Use One? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service.

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