Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here. You can do a whole network analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk. 4.) Reflection: Reflection doesn’t have to be a huge amount of time to be effective. ” At the end of the day, I look at it, reflect on what I did – and plan for tomorrow. When I’m feeling most overwhelmed, I take a break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” ” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange. I learned a lot about the network approaches and was particularly interested learning a bit more about social network analysis and mapping processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks.

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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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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Staff members were at the core of the map. They reorganized the map into clusters. Observations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. Takeaways. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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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). Call this “social change 2.0”.

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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. Program Design.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Updated language reflects how organizations in the sector currently talk about their work and the populations they serve. New organization types will facilitate more nuanced analyses of funding and other trends. Data in GuideStar and Foundation Directory continues to be updated, but these will reflect the previous version of the PCS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise. My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

Mapping Metrics to Strategy View more presentations from kanter. Yesterday, I facilitated a session called Mapping Social Media to Strategy. An introduction to analytic tools and individual/team reflection processes The panelists included Sarah Granger, Danielle Brigida, Wendy Harman, and Qui Diaz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Share Learning: To share learning, you have to intentionally hit the pause button and reflect. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network. Some questions to ask: What patterns do you see?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What's your strategy map? What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

Knowledge mapping: By working closely together, colleagues build an understanding of each person’s particular knowledge and skills. The number one thing we can do to help groups learn is to create space and time for reflection. What if we incentivised time spent in reflection and with each other? GMN2014. —

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. When learners enter the room, I ask them to reflect on their “burning question” or why did they want to take this workshop.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Assign roles that play to each member’s strengths and facilitate open, continuous communication. Conduct regular planning sessions to map your nonprofit’s future with your board’s input. Remember, the effectiveness of your board reflects directly on the impact of your organization—make it count.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

Several of the newest social platforms create “interest graphs” a map for navigating to subjects and people of interest. The Interest graph is a superset of the social graph, a people map. Content Curators are doing this and more platforms will facilitate curation. Pinterest is one of them.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Visualize On Paper: Over the past 10 months, I've made a return to paper and markers and using mind maps or visualization techniques to reflect, and plan my week or day. I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. Reflection: Reflection doesn't have to be a huge amount of time to be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it. Mapping Your Professional Network Exercise: He asked to think about this question: Who are the people with you have most frequently communicated with in order to get your work done? He asked us to list them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. You don't get as much control over the look and feel of your mind map as you would with say MindManager, although you can import an MindManager file. Update: Some more reflection on it. I had to play with it.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthcare website visitors search for crucial medical advice, doctors’ names and contact information, a map of your facility, or other must-have information. You can improve your website’s user experience by mapping the user journey. Follow these steps to map user journeys: Create audience personas.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Evolving organizational priorities ( such as a commitment to having a staff and volunteer corps that reflects the communities being served ), volunteer engagement trends (such as increased desire for short-term and flexible volunteer roles), and challenges filling leadership positions go a long way to establish a need for change.

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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. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

It's inspired me to go back and reflect on how I'm (not too successfully at times) integrating all these techniques into my online publishing. One value of a blog is at least I captured my reflections from several months ago and a workflow diagrams. Gotta get up to speed on that new visual mapping software.and do some more diagrams).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Some tip include mapping out a good process for work flow and using collaborative technology effectively. Amy Su Jen offers up a great framework for individuals. Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If your organization has not spent the time to map out work flow norms related to the tools, it can result in a lot of stress, misunderstanding, and a big loss of productivity. The process is simple – any nonprofit team, staff, or even board could facilitate this process in less than hour in three steps. Step 1: Brainstorm.

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