Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. 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. Keeping Resilient in 2021.

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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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2015

One session used the “Fishbowl” technique. It can be done in different ways, but in the lab they placed four chairs in the center of the room. The rest of the chairs were placed in a circle around them or the “bowl.” Have you ever used a fish bowl in your convenings or trainings? Did you do it differently?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. In other words, how to scale reflective practice in age of connectedness? How do you go beyond just doing a survey or collecting metrics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

In my reflection post about the panel, I was musing about one of the points raised: ”How Can We Visualize Data If We Can’t Draw?” ” This is a common theme for those interested in incorporating visualization techniques. Are you using visualization techniques in your nonprofit?

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Technique Data Hawaii Artist 111

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? Overnight Reflection. What I think is the magic is the use of “overnight reflection.” I’ve written about these techniques here ).

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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

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.

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The lab used human design facilitation techniques that I have been trained on by Luma Institute. We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). Once we had this common understanding, we iterated on the initial brainstorming question.

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Reflection Conference Homeless Learning 114

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.

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Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 92

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. 2) 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective. Reflection.

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Reflection Train Training Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 66

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Hans-Werner Kaas : Even the most experienced and successful leaders often struggle to do the inner work, which requires self-awareness and self-reflection. We often frame it as “unlearning” management techniques and “re-learning” human-centric attributes.

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Leadership Learning Lesson Reflection 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Mindmap by Jane Genovese - Click for Larger Version.

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Content NTEN Reflection Benefit 106

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Storytelling techniques Craft these stories with care, using narrative techniques that engage the emotions of your readers. Design and distribution Engaging design tips The design of your annual report should reflect your nonprofit’s identity, brand, and mission.

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Report Tools Storytelling Fundraising 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question. There are many different techniques for brainstorming that can easily be adapted to a virtual meeting. The reflection questions might include: What resonated? The first rotation is a quiet reflection alone.

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Exercise Reflection Google Consultant 177

EveryAction

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here !

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Demonstration Impact Support Story 192

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. These participants clearly understood the concepts of making a ROI case – and how to transfer those techniques to social media. Ellie taught a great trick.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 97

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. Quiet Reflection: Socoot. In Jordan, we did the Debka, a Lebanese dance.

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal. The first step is self-awareness and that happens through tracking and observing yourself in work situations that trigger stress. One way to do this is to build in some reflection time into your day and maintain a journal. What is your favorite journaling technique?

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Professional Management Journal Reflection 116

Nimble AMS

JULY 23, 2023

While templates offer a convenient starting point, it’s crucial to customize them to reflect your unique brand identity. Nimble AMS and Experience Cloud make it simple to drive a mobile-first approach, implementing responsive design techniques from the beginning.

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Associations Personal Experiment Management 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. Large: Over 50 people.

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

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.” Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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Train Training Reflection Resource 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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Reflection Data Slides Exercise 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. Both ideas were new, so it took a little bit of adaption of the templates and techniques, but we managed to come up with something useful for all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. What gave me joy?

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Professional Build Journal Facilitation 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo. Bullet Journal is done by hand.

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Method Technique Reflection Exercise 130

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Here’s what they need to do for that: Identifying Key Metrics for Assessing Video-Based Learning Effectiveness Techniques for Collecting and Analyzing Learner Feedback Create post-training questionnaires to ask participants about their overall impressions of the video-based learning modules.

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Education Video Learning Student 52

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Here’s what they need to do for that: Identifying Key Metrics for Assessing Video-Based Learning Effectiveness Techniques for Collecting and Analyzing Learner Feedback Create post-training questionnaires to ask participants about their overall impressions of the video-based learning modules.

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Education Video Learning Student 52

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Here’s what they need to do for that: Identifying Key Metrics for Assessing Video-Based Learning Effectiveness Techniques for Collecting and Analyzing Learner Feedback Create post-training questionnaires to ask participants about their overall impressions of the video-based learning modules.

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Education Video Learning Student 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My Three Themes: .

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Her savvy, quick-witted, and inspiring messages reflect the distinct allure of the resort. A machine-learning bot will require more technical expertise including utilizing algorithms and natural language processing techniques. An article from Hospitality Technology describes Rose like this.

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Las Vegas Language Interaction Associations 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise. Aside from the brainstorm about tools, we heard some wonderful techniques that some participants were already using "blogging behind the firewall." It worked well.

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Social Media Reflection Network Media 82

Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

Objection 1: Bias in Bias out One of the most significant concerns with GPT models is the potential for them to reflect and perpetuate biases present in the data used to train them. These include techniques such as debiasing and adversarial training, which aim to reduce the impact of biased data on the model’s output.

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Model Technique Train Training 52

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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