Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. Again, using design-thinking facilitating methods, the process started with a presentation from the executive director on the strategy for the year and measurement.

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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

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results.

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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. Opening Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. It keeps you from being creative, stops us, but here is a technique to get past it: The failure bow. It helps us come to terms with mistakes and clear us for learning.

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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! The best facilitators will address these issues in a sensitive, thoughtful, and helpful manner so the board can snip the ropes that tie these touchy anchors. If you’re in the process of planning a retreat, don’t settle!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2005

I haven't been blogging much this month because I've been immersed in an online workshop on the topic of online facilitation with Nancy White at Full Circle. The workshop has provided a wealth of learning about practical techniques and theory of online community building as well as allowed some time for experimentation or action learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

So, here's a quick summary of good stuff that was shared on the N-TEN discuss list today about conference calls. My contribution to the list was not to focus on vendors, but to point to a wonderful document that I helped write with Nancy White, John Smith, and others about facilitation techniques for phone conference calls.

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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. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. There’s more, of course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

Low-technology settings require high-touch network facilitation. You’ll want to read both the executive summary and the full report – not only do they contain a wealth of insights about network effectiveness, but also use data visualization techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S.,

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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? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. Here’s a summary of what I learned: Do You Have The Basics of Good Meetings Covered? . A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. Summary: 2 minutes to summarize takeaways and next steps. This year’s work will build on this past year.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

These platforms also facilitate instant feedback loops and provide opportunities for participation. Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Udemy Business: Pros: Wide range of courses covering various topics and skills. Affordable pricing, especially for bulk purchases.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

These platforms also facilitate instant feedback loops and provide opportunities for participation. Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Udemy Business: Pros: Wide range of courses covering various topics and skills. Affordable pricing, especially for bulk purchases.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

These platforms also facilitate instant feedback loops and provide opportunities for participation. Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Udemy Business: Pros: Wide range of courses covering various topics and skills. Affordable pricing, especially for bulk purchases.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

These platforms also facilitate instant feedback loops and provide opportunities for participation. Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Udemy Business: Pros: Wide range of courses covering various topics and skills. Affordable pricing, especially for bulk purchases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Here’s a summary. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique. Michaela Monahan, Big Duck blog, discusses the technique of tracking your time. Personal Productivity Mindsets. It is all about managing your attention.

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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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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 26, 2023

Toy Example To facilitate our discussion, we create a 2 GB binary file and assume that the file contains 2,048 data samples, each one being 1 MB in size. The Art of Prefetching Data Files Prefetching is a common technique that is employed when iterating over multiple large files.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! You can also use your branding to fully customize donation receipts, thank you emails, and donor summaries, which will facilitate a cohesive donation process that connects a donor to your nonprofit’s work at every step. .

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Still, it often involves hacks, data densification, or other complicated techniques that just feel off compared to the ease of making simple charts. Organize and display hierarchical information in a clear, engaging format that captures attention and facilitates deeper analysis. Shipping sankey chart by Tristan Guillevin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Use the groups search feature on flickr to find a group and join it. Send the photo the group photo pool. Del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

I discovered that it was Larry Eason from DotOrgPower and his colleague, Shelley Wenk, offered to write this summary of the discussion as a guest post. Here’s a summary of the discussion. These techniques could be used to. Are You Being Left Behind as Technology Ushers In a Whole New Approach to Philanthropy?

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 14, 2025

Im hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see this introduction for a summary of the essays that have been released thus far, and for a bit more about the series as a whole.) This is the fourth essay in a series that Im calling How do we solve the alignment problem?.

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