Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I’ve written a lot of DoSomething.Org’s culture of being data informed, but one thing they do is an internal “FailFest” about every six months. The idea behind FailFest isn’t to make anyone feel bad; its to learn. Its open to all staff, interns, board members. Here’s a few.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Whilst we have some specific techniques that we are using for our own postings and article headlines every day, I thought looking at the most cutting edge research is definitely required. Of course, let’s start with a testing method again first: Test blogpost headlines first on Twitter – The Andrew Chen technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Do you have advice for an organization using Flickr as a campaign platform?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, potentially receives thousands of emails per day since making his email address public, forwarding questions to relevant employees and sparking a flurry of internal activity. In the process, they are cutting down on costs by offering proactive advice and addressing several customers at once.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Detailed in a post published to the official OpenAI blog, the technique relies on prompting GPT-4 with a policy that guides the model in making moderation judgments and creating a test set of content examples that might or might not violate the policy. ” But color me skeptical. AI-powered moderation tools are nothing new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Wendy has been working an internal social media capacity builder. She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. Getting to Know and Cultivating Free Agents: Here’s my best advice on this. It comes down to do a little bit everyday and treating people like people. Listening in Practice.

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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. Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 7, 2023

books, magazines, newspapers, forms, street signs, restaurant menus) so that they can be indexed, searched, translated, and further processed by state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques. Ashok Popat and Jake Walker provided valuable advice.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs.

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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? I’ve written about these techniques here ). Do you have a preferred method? Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s Taking steps to detect bots such as deploying CAPTCHAs and blocking IP address where data scraping activity is identified is another recommendation (albeit bots can solve CAPTCHAs so that piece of advice is already looking outdated).

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Davis Parchment, and data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson about the research results, implications, and advice for next steps. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Intern Roles (if any).

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The tech team has several divisions that, working together, contribute the diversity of skills and techniques our clients need. It’s not uncommon to discover a team leader who started as an intern or in a non-technical role, but worked to pursue the training needed to contribute at the highest levels. Meet the team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. " What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools.

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Forum One

APRIL 6, 2023

While there’s a lot of overlap in terms of techniques, tools, and artifacts, service design has some unique ones, too, such as service blueprints. Q2: How I can get service design adopted internally? A: Our biggest advice to get buy-in from your teams is to help them understand that service design has an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

There are tons of lens options and you can use advanced film techniques like shallow depth of field and pulling focus. Check out your local camera shop for rentals and expert advice. As with any in-house project, you can save on outsourcing, but your internal time commitment does go up. Rent or Buy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The last time I shared a plenary stage with Marcelo Iniarra was in 2014 at the International Fundraising Congress where he rode a bicycle on stage! Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Here’s my advice for finding the right consultant for your nonprofit. . Use this information internally and share it freely during your search. . Must they live nearby or can regional, national, or international candidates apply? Who does the consultant report to? Criteria for your consultant. Ability to get along with others .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

The criticism was that Owyang's advice was not sophisticated enough. " It made me think about this post on the Now is Gone Blog that offers some advice about transparency. Almost as a model of how to deal with negative comments to a post , Jeremiah Owyang has invited his critic, David Charback, to write a guest post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Make sure that you good internal system for sharing any updates that might come in through fundraising office or other school connections. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. Images work for engagement.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Data ambiguity can lead to poor internal communications, preventing nonprofits from effectively applying segmenting. There’s one piece of advice that can help, no matter what kind of information you’re collecting: The quality of your conclusion is never better than the quality of your data.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

She serves on the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School, and her speaking and DEI advisory client list includes Fortune 500 companies, international forums, government entities, and top academic institutions. My best bit of advice: Ask, don’t assume. Seeking balance sets us up for failure and defeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In the book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness, and (World Peace) , author Chade-Meng Tan offers 3 simple techniques to practice mindful conversations. Dipping: This is checking in with yourself and to notice any internal distractions or feelings – not to judge them but be aware.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

For years, David Grossman has set the gold standard for delivering effective and actionable techniques for communicating with employees. Now, he’s raised the bar to a whole new level for publishing a book where every page is both incredibly visual and packed with must-read content. to name a few.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Thanks for your great advice Tom! Without assessing blame, call out the problem at a board meeting, giving examples of how it is adversely affecting the agency, both internally and externally. Luckily for us, governance consultant Tom Okarma has written a terrific guest post for us this week on exactly this topic. governance'

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Claude was created using a technique Anthropic developed called “constitutional AI.” We do this by conditioning them with a simple set of behavioral principles via a technique called Constitutional AI: [link] pic.twitter.com/MIGlKSVTe9. — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) December 16, 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

She’s an F-1 international student at a U.S. The key is building a foot-in-the-door technique for continuous engagement — lead magnets,” she says. Dear Sophie: Do we need a visa to explore the US market? Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. Dear Sophie, My husband and I plan to visit our daughter during her spring break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

That's not a real question, just the idle thoughts of a slightly exhausted airline passenger stuck on a runaway on a Virgin America flight who can't use the wifi to get back to the clouds to summarize the rest of the of learnings/advice about social network analysis that came from Twitter while I was live tweeting. .

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2016

Below are the issues portrayed and mitigation techniques: Difficult to Formulate Content: In less user-friendly systems it is important to design content with the implementation in mind. But I digress, this post will explore manners in which people in these sorts of environments could make their lives a little easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Robin Broitman, How To Sell Social Media To Cynics, Skeptics, Luddites - Tips, Resources, and Advice 5. That said, social media should not exist in a silo and be implemented as a supplemental channel by "a young intern alone in the corner." What happens when your intern moves on? It needs to be owned by the entire organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. A sampling of effective HRW staff on Twitter: High volume, effective technique. He also identified staff who were enthusiastic and proficient in using Twitter to lead training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. He also shares the key points of his presentation here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Glenn Hirsch , manager of internal communications and administration, is TechSoup keeper of shared passwords in a LastPass enterprise vault. " Other Password Security Techniques. Anna Jaeger , CTO of Caravan Studios, invented her own technique. TechSoup: Safer Online for Nonprofits: Practical Advice to Keep You Safe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

At the click of a button, the Wage Guide converts ‘artisan per piece payment’ to a ‘daily wage’ and then compares the daily wage to international economic indicators providing advice on how to increase wages to meet these standards."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 technique/application that will fit those goals. Do you want to offer audio or video programming to an international audience for free? What advice would you give?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

I believe employees should know as much as possible about what internal and external forces are impacting the organization. What advice do you have for those struggling with their reinvention? Van Gorder : Transparency is transparency – not selected transparency. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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