Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . What are the key functions of a sales operations group? The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Performance Management Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. If you are curious about more techniques, I suggest David Staker’s “ Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. This is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. A structured process has a number of benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. Group check-ins or icebreakers allow us to become more connected as humans as well as name, claim and move on from distractions and focus on the meeting at hand. I’ve done this with small groups of ten and also on larger calls with several hundred.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2014

Taking it one step further are self-organized groups of self-learners or “ peeragogy.” Self-organized learning groups can also happen inside of organizations, especially those that have adopted learning cultures. How does your nonprofit integrate learning into your work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. This was important because we were using a lot of interactive techniques like world cafe and speed geek that may have been new ways of learning for some participants. This took paying a lot of attention to the group, the clock, and relying on the fantastic in-country team to help read the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group.

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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 114

The MatrixFiles

OCTOBER 7, 2024

You also do not need to be as familiar with prompt engineering techniques. It provides suggestions on format and structure for better readability, while remaining professional and helpful in tone. The post How Creating a Custom GPT Can Help Automate Tedious Tasks and Save Time appeared first on Matrix Group International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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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. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. And everyday until….

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Fund Campaign Practice Giving 132

Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Setting up your own domain will help you see the impact of each SEO technique you implement Click To Tweet. The many aspects that determine SEO range from the words on your page, and the way other sites link to you on the web, to simply structuring your website in a way that search engines understand. So you want to teach yourself SEO?

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Learning Mentoring Beginner Search 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

Professional 100

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 100

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years. The short time frame brings focus to the group.

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Structure Leadership Team Phase 97

Nimble AMS

JULY 23, 2023

Customiz e the template To ensure that Experience Cloud is intuitive and user-friendly , Nimble AMS has designed multiple options for distinct member groups. Nimble AMS and Experience Cloud make it easy to review your template’s navigation structure to guarantee visitors find needed information.

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Associations Personal Experiment Management 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

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. 3: Pick the structure that best fits your capacity and goals. There is no one “right” or ideal structure for a Giving Day. The answer depends on the organization’s goals. #4)

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Foundation Giving Miami Georgia 107

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

As an intern, I was working for Bookshare in Chennai, India, as their "on-the-ground" person, doing outreach and helping to establish a structure that will support their service there. I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work. Bookshare managers.

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Accessibility India United States International 100

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? We’ll follow with 10 minutes to group ideas around common themes. Let’s begin with some practical strategies, including ground rules, defined roles, supplies, and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

Professional 92

Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For the past twenty years that I’ve been doing training, no matter what I usually get a group of participants who are mixed levels of experience and capacity. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. So, you have to design for that.

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Reflection Training Train Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. This another area of Steve's interest and expertise.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

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. .” Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Campaign Online Chapter Model 98

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. And it requires thinking above and beyond traditional organizational boundaries. So what to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. The internet is structured around sites that have unique URL addresses. This map itself illustrates such structurally important things as groups (cliques), bridges between groups, and which organizations are best connected. .

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Analysis Social Network Network South Africa 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

One topic they discussed the challenge of networked governance and leadership and mentioned that they’d be holding this convening to talk about to “smush&# the two networks together and have the networks design the best governance structure. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. The started with some big picture frames.

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Global Network Participatory Netsquared 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. After some back and forth conversation, including asking for his input when they changed their fee structure, GiveWell became a supporter and user for Network for Good's services.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out. In addition to bringing issues into the open, you need to build a mechanism in which there is a consistent opportunity for calling in/calling out behaviors: Are there structural and procedural processes in place in which to have these feedback conversations?

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders. They can even be done virtually!

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Audience Design Exercise Test 86

Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2021

They interviewed a diverse group of 65 business people, everyone from CEOs of mighty organizations to modest sized local nonprofits. With their findings they identified a number of common areas of concern amid the entire group. This group was able to turn their stress into a sort of fuel for change and nonprofit success. .

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Strategy Nonprofit Industry Authoring 80

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

Now, there is extensive literature on effective networking techniques that are tested and true (I implore you to Google “effective networking”; it’s exhausting). Providentially, there are plenty of programs that provide structured networking for those who want to make contacts and connections at a higher level.

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Network Phoenix Arizona Contact 89

Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Header tags: Header tags contribute to both the logical structure of content, aiding search engines in understanding information hierarchy, and the readability of the page for users. Ensure optimized site performance and structure Ensuring the technical soundness of your website is a foundational aspect of effective SEO.

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International Strategy Search Structure 96

Candid

JULY 5, 2023

This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. One leader at Candid wisely uses the progressive stack method , a technique to prioritize voices less-heard in team meetings. These offer insight into strengths, preferences, and approaches to work.

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Team Build Tips Exercise 102

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2012

Why do so many teams and groups fail to perform --achieving compromise at best and gridlock at worst? sees the big picture of what the team or group is there to do and works tirelessly to make that happen, without manipulating the process or its outcome to their own personal advantage.

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