Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Spectragram.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Support Groups are facilitated by trained volunteers, Peer Support Group Leaders, who plan and lead not only the support groups but also events to engage and build connections with warriors and their families. Through Peer Support Groups, warriors connect with each other, work to overcome challenges, and develop a renewed sense of community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 28, 2024

That’s is one of the determinations in a new report from Independent Sector, The Pursuit of Influence: Interviews with Nonprofit Leaders About Advocacy. The 78-page report provides insight into how nonprofit leaders view their role in public policy advocacy and engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

When performing a facilitated discovery in advance of a tech change, unknowns are surfaced, assumptions are validated, refined or debunked, and obstacles to adoption and long-term viability are removed. With an experienced tech agnostic partner to facilitate, you will increase team buyin, cohesion and adoption through participation.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Our interview process is rigorous. We do phone screening followed by three waves of interviews with teammates from different cross sections of the company. If you’re interviewing prospective employees, be as clear about the company’s expectations for behavior and attitude as you are about the professional skills required.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

So we wanted as much information as possible, for internal dissemination, to share with the Champions, as well as to share in general (for example, this interview), that might help others with their work as well. What’s elevator speech for the organization, he campaign and your role.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Platforms such as Great Question and Ribbon seek to simplify the process of interviewing customers about product ideas and strategy, while services like Sprig and Maze let product teams observe how users interact with a product and generate reports. User Interviews — which today closed a $27.5 Image Credits: User Interviews.

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TechSpot

APRIL 6, 2023

Policia Nacional said Huertas is one of the most dangerous hackers in the country, and is responsible for creating a search engine called 'Udyat' ('The Eye of the Horus') to facilitate the selling of stolen data. In an online interview, he also claimed to have access to the personal data. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The risky nature of product research led Jonathan Widawski and Thomas Mary — software developers by trade — to launch Maze , a software product research platform that facilitates prototype tests and surveys. “Maze began with the belief that product design teams should have easy access to data during the design phase.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? When we interviewed her for our book Association 4.0: An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight among colleagues. I wasn’t able to find statistics related to association leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Facilitator Guide: [link]. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

From virtual concerts, live performances and interviews with medical experts, St. A popular medium of choice, Facebook facilitates conversations and interactions among supporters in the comments section, allowing them to feel a sense of community virtually. One of these ways is live streaming events on social media.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2020

This paper is the culmination of nearly two years of research including literature and landscape reviews and dozens of interviews with experts around the world. Today, Allison Fine and I are pleased to announce the release our paper, Unlocking Generosity with Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Giving.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.)

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Interview Other Organizations: Talk to organizations that have a similar use case and ask for partner recommendations. Ensure that partners provide comprehensive training and support to facilitate smooth adoption. Learn about their processes and see what you want to incorporate into your future capabilities.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2022

I write a LOT about the role of the fundraiser as “ philanthropy facilitator.” Philanthropy facilitators don’t do the work for donors, but with them — standing by their side along the journey. Except it’s not “fundraising” so much as what I like to call “ philanthropy facilitation.”. The “Wiseman.”

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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. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Tips for Good Openings.

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Candid

AUGUST 5, 2024

They also offer resources for parents and teachers to facilitate these important conversations. So, they conducted market research, starting with in-depth interviews with target audiences—LGBTQ+ and ally parents and educators. Analyze data such as donor, volunteer, and beneficiary demographics and giving patterns.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2025

Qualitative data in the form of interviews, focus groups, and anecdotes from grantees and their communities are similarly valuable for measuring the success of advancing funder activities, including well-being initiatives. Theres an opportunity to expand upon what funders consider to be the best measures of success.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“This process is the first impression someone has of the company, so you have to move them along in the process, put them in front of the right interviewers and be prepared to deliver on the experience.”. Teams would interview candidates, aggregate the data and provide it to the people making the ultimate decisions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Finix announced that it was becoming a payments facilitator, in addition to enabling other companies to facilitate payments. In an interview this past week, Serna elaborated by noting that Finix indeed started out to build software that gave any software company a way to become their own payment facilitator.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Let the AI interview you about your favorite books or movies. Claude Pro provided an excellent overview of the kinds of books Ive selected for the book group I facilitate over the past eight years. You can use those collections to train your AI assistant.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Instead of printed annual reports, try doing a video with interview and clips from what you’ve done the last year. It isn’t that we need to organize them, but we need to facilitate ways for them to organize themselves. Help Millennial donors experience your cause online. Engage your Millennials as guest bloggers.

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.orgSource

MAY 9, 2023

Before you engage a facilitator, discuss their approach to innovation. When my business partner, Kevin Ordonez, and I were interviewing leaders for our Association 4.0 Review your strategic plan and assess where there is room for growth. Consider what kind of initiatives could expand your horizons. Then, acting on those fresh ideas.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called “ Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers.” Is your nonprofit facilitating online professional learning? That email exchange morphed into this guest post. What have you learned? Go get that person.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Interviews and focus groups - The desired outcome of this type of method is to solicit data without any influence or bias. Consider using an outside facilitator to help develop questions and protocol and to help identify themes from your data. In fact, a more sophisticated survey package could be considerably more difficult to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

During the class, Dean Nancy Smyth related the idea to a social work technique called “ Motivational Interviewing ,” using in addiction interventions.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Google is facilitating this kind of monetization for publishers at scale. Entrepreneur Insider Entrepreneurship How-To''s Leadership Lists Profiles and Interviews startup theyec.org YEC Young Entrepreneur Council' Scott Austin , Porch. . Top image credit: rangizzz / Shutterstock.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. When connecting with board members , consider how to persuade them that philanthropy facilitation is everyone’s job. It’s in your job description. It takes a village.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the community, they engage with each other, exchange notes to perform better at interviews and share tips to negotiate better compensation. The startup, whose name is inspired from a cheerful 2019 Bollywood song, has facilitated over 18 million job interviews in the past 30 days, he said. Image Credits: Apna.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. For example, a job interview, performance evaluation, or strategy decision. This sounds simplistic, but employees who are alone in a home office may find it more challenging to remember that their feelings and behavior have an impact beyond those four walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I was interviewed for the report). Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. Develop peer learning opportunities: Many interviewees felt that incentives were misaligned across progressive organizations to facilitate meaningful reflection on what’s working and what’s not. Funder misalignment on movement needs.

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Gyrus

JULY 18, 2024

Furthermore, customization facilitates ongoing refinement based on feedback and changing requirements. By eliminating redundant data entry and ensuring data consistency, integration facilitates a smooth flow of information throughout the onboarding process. Now how does Gyrus LMS help in onboarding automation?

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