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Tips To Make Online Meetings Less Exhausting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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7 Techniques for Event Fundraising Success

NetWits

The seven event fundraising techniques or “best practices&# described here emerged from analyzing data and interviewing nonprofit event and development staff. Launch the event online at least six months in advance. On average, organizations set up online events about 5.5 Extend the online duration of the event.

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What can nonprofit technology trainers learn from the social work field to improve their training techniques?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. I was even lucky enough to coax Nancy into an impromptu role play to model some of the techniques. She was brilliant!

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). I told them to come back at a precise time.

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

Amy Sample Ward

What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? Second, we would focus on taking the campaign to off-line events as much as possible to facilitate meaningful connections between the online and offline world. A few hours later, we quickly found each other through Jessica Lin and unified our efforts as SXSWcares.

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Reflections on Twitter Chat Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The complete chat is aggregated here. You’ll notice that the application they’re using allows them to pull out the moderator’s tweets on the side. A couple of Twitter moderator techniques I used to try to get some deeper insights from the discussion: I had a search open on #sm73 the whole time.