Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! Our first session will set the stage and context for the practices of “Impact Leadership.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. There are some things about the Ice Bucket Challenge can’t replicated , but there are practices that you can incorporate for your crowd funding or giving day campaign.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 5, 2024

Data Science Better Practices, Part 2 — Work Together You can’t just throw more data scientists at this model and expect the accuracy to magically increase. The common practice I witnessed in various places is that each member in the team tries their own “thing”. The main point is not the specific abstraction we’ll come up with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Here is a write up about how the toolkit was designed and piloted, but of interest is how they framed the design challenge of designing the toolkit: How could they structure it so that people could dip in and out without having to wade through theory first? They responded to the design challenge by making the toolkit as practical as possible.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Here they are: Rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. It is a good idea to get a few people together on a call to practice doing it before you host your first meeting with zoom Breakout Rooms. What is a challenge?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? Kelly Buhles outlines some of the ways to structure participation in her article, “A Primer for Participatory Grantmaking,” and divides them into two main groupings: participatory committees and collective groups.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Structured Training Modules: GyrusAim enables organizations to create structured safety training programs tailored to specific roles and responsibilities. This immersive approach helps employees practice their responses to emergencies or hazardous situations in a controlled environment.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Overworked and underfunded staff rely on a clear, decisive leadership structure to keep them motivated. Executive directors can facilitate this by preparing board agendas that focus on strategic discussions—and ways to get members involved to support the fundraising efforts of the organization—rather than on operational details.

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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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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Or said another way, your new system most likely has created a more effective or efficient way of managing data and if you force the new system to replicate all the data content and structure of your old system, then you may bring many of the problems with your old data into the new system unintentionally.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

However, achieving and maintaining these certifications requires structured training, comprehensive documentation, and ongoing compliance monitoring—all of which can be efficiently managed through a Learning Management System (LMS). Here are some critical ways an LMS can facilitate this process: 1.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Additionally, a pre-designed event landing page template offers a structured layout, incorporating essential details such as event schedules, ticketing information, and engaging visuals. The LWCs further facilitate in-depth selections, such as size and color, offering a streamlined shopping experience. Learn more

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). What do we know about emerging practices around network strategy, structure, governance, leadership, communication platforms, backbone organizations, etc.?

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Intermediaries provide the means to an end : facilitating the disbursement of funding for coordinating efforts to meet social needs, organizing communities to address injustice, and in some cases redistributing wealth to advance equity. Equitable intermediaries don’t just talk equity; they practice equity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. His response: Looking: Observing human experience.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

As we move toward a new, better model of work, this rising cohort is challenging many long-held ideals and broken structures. I want to work at a place where leaders are facilitating not just my growth broadly but also my ability to live out my values in the world. I want to feel like Im constantly evolving.

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Choosing the right LMS not only facilitates training but also ensures alignment with life sciences regulatory compliance frameworks. GxP (Good Practices) : Guidelines that ensure quality and compliance in production and testing environments. Heres a comprehensive guide to help organizations navigate the selection process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. It doesn’t do more than that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I think that TechSoup Global’s three leaders – Daniel Ben-Horin, Rebecca Massisak, and Marnie Webb – have been modeling this practice. Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure. The next day was all about practice, action, and doing. Designing for Serendipity.

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Gyrus

JULY 18, 2024

It guides new hires effortlessly through each onboarding step and delivers a structured experience without the need for manual intervention. Furthermore, customization facilitates ongoing refinement based on feedback and changing requirements. Now how does Gyrus LMS help in onboarding automation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network. It is also packed with resource lists and stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2019

Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. What gave me joy?

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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

MAY 10, 2009

Here’s 3 ways participants dive into the mix with the N2Y4 Conference structure: 1. The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Sessions promise to cover leading theories and practices. REGISTER here! Still unsure? Are you challenged by lecture-formats?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is building time in for reflection and putting I find out into practice. Sense making is also experimenting and learning by doing. It is also a process that happens, in part, in quiet – and for me that means embracing slowness. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Training & Facilitation: I have maintained an active schedule of leading workshops, facilitating retreats, and presenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

The guide, written by online fundraising experts at Third Plateau and KDS Strategies , is Knight Foundation’s way of sharing emerging best practices as organizations continue to experiment with engaging communities online. 3: Pick the structure that best fits your capacity and goals. Registration is here. ). 4) Begin planning…now.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

If you are having problems with your tech and business development team working efficiently, the real problem could be a result of a poorly structured organization. At the end of the day, different companies require different structures, so do your homework by researching similar companies, and find what best fits your organization.

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Gyrus

JULY 1, 2024

Remote Onboarding Best Practices: Bridging the Virtual Gap Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Onboarding remote employees replicates the essential steps of the traditional onboarding journey without the need for physical presence. Get it right with GyrusAim, offering a transparent pricing structure.

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Gyrus

JULY 1, 2024

According to Harvard Business Review, a structured onboarding process can boost customer satisfaction by 16%. Here are some best practices for remote onboarding that can help ensure a smooth and engaging experience for new hires. Mentorship Programs Facilitate remote mentorship by pairing new hires with onboarding buddies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. I might audit their Facebook best practices and other social media channels.

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