Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

They communicate more effectively, stimulate new ideas, and apply what they hear to improve their team’s productivity and results. Mindful Listening: Master the Basics of Focused Conversation. Conversations with other people at work are a basic part of what we do at work everyday. 5: Don’t interrupt or jump into giving advice.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Here’s my advice for finding the right consultant for your nonprofit. . We strongly recommend this technique because unconscious bias can frequently lead us to give preference to people who might not necessarily be the best match, such as: The person we really want to drink coffee with. What was the outcome?”.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At it’s core, OPM brings together digital strategy, SEO techniques and social media marketing to provide an overarching approach to online presence. Instead of a one-time installation, OPM aims for continuous improvement by focusing on the long-term rewards SEO techniques, analytics and reputation management can offer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The product of this learning journey, Just In Time: Beyond-the-Hype Potential of E-Learning , has just been published. Based on a year of conversations with more than 100 leading thinkers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs, this report explores the state of e-learning and the potential it offers beyond the confines of formal education.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At it’s core, OPM brings together digital strategy, SEO techniques and social media marketing to provide an overarching approach to online presence. Instead of a one-time installation, OPM aims for continuous improvement by focusing on the long-term rewards SEO techniques, analytics and reputation management can offer.

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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? Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

I’ve been noticing that I tend to get more engagement on technology posts than social engagement posts, although when I worked hard at stirring the pot, there have been a few productive conversations. The problem with Google + as it stands right now (and it will be changing) is that lack of community features and mainstream adoption.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

Question : What advice would you give to a Millennial who has just been promoted into management? My advice is to accept the inevitability of both. The person will probably have a different perspective and approach than an older manager and may know more about recent developments and newer techniques or technologies.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

And, not when we asked them to stand to do an exercise like the stretching demo above or share pairs. But, during the dialogue we had. I felt that the level of interaction and the substance of the conversation was higher quality than if people were just sitting and passively listening. Walking or running together is not racing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . Chris offered this advice: " Don't just pick the low hanging fruit in your in box. I enjoyed the conversational approach. Try ignoring your email." .

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

When developing a fundraising strategy, your best bet is to concentrate on two areas: your most productive donor groups and high-impact donor recruitment and retention. These days, investing in fundraising tools with CRM integrations is more of a necessity than general fundraising advice. Understand the Giver’s Journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. What's the sweet spot between personal productivity and social productivity? Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation. Advice on How To Not Pitch Bloggers. What is your blog conversation strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Some tools and techniques follow below. strategy is to ???shut

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Some tools and techniques follow below. strategy is to ???shut

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

  The advice is geared for small businesses, not nonprofits, but a lot of it relevant and translatable.      Geoff offers some time management techniques for social media strategists or what I'd like to call " Social Productivity " (I'm developing a workshop on that one.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

In her post, she reflects on some technical/production questions. So, the technique I ended up with was to capture the window and use zoom/pan in editing process. That's another part of the process, conversation monitoring. What are you tips for improving screencasts production quality? Very sparingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

I made a few tests to see how it might work I also got some advice from Jon Udell. about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique. Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio. My first idea was to use Ready/Talk and its screencapture features.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

They’re a great way to learn new techniques, brush up on industry knowledge, and learn about up-and-coming trends—all of which are important as you hone your fundraising skills. As a general rule, these are product agnostic, which means you’ll learn something you can use in your job that doesn’t involve using a specific platform or tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Need to catch up last week's ROI conversations so you can jump in - start here. Google has been reaching out to nonprofits for its Google Earth product over the last few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. During the morning and early afternoon session, I felt that some tables were having difficult conversations. This speaks to another "c" for social media besides community and conversation - creativity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. Make conversation with your team. Its so powerful I wanted to pass it along. • Do something that you are afraid to do.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

Our conversation began with Carolynn and Ashley describing the path that brought them to start their own vegan bakery. I think it's generally been appealing to us, and consistent with our ethics, at least in my opinion, to abstain from animal products. It's more of a technique thing than a pure ingredient thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

” from Bundlepost (a social media productivity tool ). ” You have to measure conversions from social media – from engagement to whatever action or goal you want people to take. What is a conversion? To measure conversion using your analytics programs, it generally requires submitting an online form.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 29, 2016

Luckily for us, he has some great answers and advice. Have a conversation with the board and governance committee chairs to see if they agree that this has become a problem situation. Rehearse the conversation ahead of time to help smooth out the tougher points. 12 Critical Components for an Effective Tough Conversation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. Charlene and Josh relate listening to research, and since they focus on business examples, they are primarily talking about market research: the way a business learns what people think of their brand, their products, and their potential.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010 The Five Points Of Professionalism Heres more good advice from The Everything Coaching And Mentoring Book : Professional behavior on the job means that work habits are strong and consistent. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Never Say These Words To A Customer Author Harvey MacKay wrote the following spot-on advice in his recent column in the Kansas City Business Journal. MacKay writes, "Common sense, thorough research and sound advice should allay your fears to a reasonable level." Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2010

They provide the following great, simple and straight-forward advice about giving feedback: Make it timely -- give your feedback as soon as possible to the performance. Make it productive -- focus your feedback on the performance and not the performer. Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It acts somewhat similar to an email spell checker, and you can select the suggested alternatives or ignore the advice. ToneCheck reports that many companies also battle productivity loss triggered by misread employee email. Make conversation with your team. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 I heard this advice quoted the other day and wanted to share it. All great advice for leaders and managers as we start 2011. Make conversation with your team. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than dream: work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Make conversation with your team. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Timms advice to stop asking your customers the "typical" questions and instead ask them open-ended questions. ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Dont delay tough conversations 65. ▼ 2010 (108) ▼ December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi. Start meetings on time 58.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Drucker provides the following good advice in one of my favorite books of his, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization :" Every mission statement has to reflect three things : Opportunities Competence Commitment In other words, he explains: What is our purpose? Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

Via the App, David promises to bring his communications industry expert advice and wisdom right to your fingertips. Make conversation with your team. David just launched his new App, called " Ask David." Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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