Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr photo by DoroQuez. I had the opportunity to facilitate a table conversation about capacity building in transition. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Diffuse best technologies for work (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

Today, text messaging platforms enable instant, direct interaction with wider audiences, facilitating greater fundraising, awareness campaigns, volunteer coordination, and real-time updates during crises. The integration of multimedia capabilities, such as video and photo sharing, has further enriched these interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. After doing a problem analysis, we re-framed the question as “ How might we incorporate self care into our nonprofit work culture as a way to define productivity in a networked society?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo by Dwinton. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Photo by Buddhassit Weaving: This goal is more conceptual and may not make sense to anyone but me. So, I've decided to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? It is important to also consider the different contexts for the evaluation. That the old metrics aren't working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr. What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Photo by the TruthAbout. The scores are based on analysis of the “ 5 Cs ” of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting and clicking. What do you do to facilitate it? Hard data points: Conduct an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. Are the comments positive or negative?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Flickr Photo by Star Dust. I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! Learn about the tools available that bring mobile, web and social together.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Grants management software (GMS) is the lifeblood of most foundations — providing tools for collecting, reviewing, and choosing grant proposals, and the data to evaluate their impact. CRM empowers funders to capture the data that is most essential to their decisioning, record keeping, and evaluation.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To a large extent, understand the market forces at play that help or hurt your chance for success; think SWOT analysis and marketing mix. Now, recall in Chapter 2: Nonprofit Marketing Strategy when we evaluated keyword ranking opportunities based on difficulty. Afterall, keywords are the backbone of SEO.

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